Love Blows as the Wind Blows
Butterworth, Barber, Bush, Coallier
ÉTIENNE DUPUIS, baritone
Quatuor Claudel-Canimex
Élaine Marcil, Flavie Gagnon, violins;
Annie Parent, viola; Jeanne de Chantal Marcil, cello
Label: ATMA Classique
Catalogue No: ACD2 2701
UPC: 722056270120
George Butterworth’s moving cycle Love Blows as the Wind Blows lends its title to the solo debut album of Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis. He also sings a rarely recorded English song cycle, Farewell Earth’s Bliss, by British composer Geoffrey Bush, and Dover Beach, an early work by Samuel Barber.
This exquisite and refined selection includes four French songs by Canadian composer Réjean Coallier based on poems by Sylvain Garneau. Dupuis also performs the iconic Irish folk song Danny Boy, arranged for voice and string quartet. Dupuis is accompanied by the musicians of the Quatuor Claudel-Canimex, who play Barber’s famous
Adagio in its original version for string quartet.
Étienne Dupuis has been receiving international acclaim since his debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2011 in the role of Zurga in the Pearl Fishers. He was invited back to Berlin to perform in Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro), and La Traviata (Germont). Recent engagements include
Marcello in La Bohème with Vancouver Opera, Joe de Rocher in Dead Man Walking with Opéra de Montréal, André Thorel from Massenet’s Thérèse and La Vivandière by Benjamin Godard with Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, Figaro in Barber of Seville in Avignon and the role of Zurga with Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg and Opera de Nantes.
For more than 25 years, the musicians of the Claudel-Canimex Quartet have brought the repertoire for string quartet to life with the same ardor and passion as the famous French artist for whom the quartet is named. The musicians use their 'collective spontaneity and virtuosity'
and their 'beautiful romantic phrasing' (Claude Gingras, La Presse) to showcase a bold and varied repertoire, with a special emphasis on works by female composers.
TRACK LIST
George Butterworth (1885-1916)
Love Blows as the Wind Blows
1. I. In the year that’s come and gone, love, his flying feather
2. II. Life in her Creaking Shoes
3. III. Fill a glass with golden wine
4. IV. On the way to Kew
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
5. Dover Beach op 3
Geoffrey Bush (b.1920)
Farewell, Earth’s Bliss
6. I. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright
7. II. O, the month of May, the merry month of May
8. III. Do not fear to put thy feet
9. IV. Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
10. V. When May is in his prime
11. VI. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree
Samuel Barber
12. Adagio pour cordes
Trad.
13. Danny Boy [arr.: Daniel Desaulniers]
Réjean Coallier (b. 1953)
Cycle of songs set to poems by Sylvain Garneau
14. I. Dans chaque village
15. II. La rivière
16. III. Élégie
17. IV. Décembre
