Mélodies

Excerpt from the preface by Peio Çabalette :

"Thomas Moreau is a free artist who defies time, fashion and musical divisions. Here he offers us a collection of pieces for voice and piano, new music born of his lifelong love of poetry, words and voices. [...] Each title, each piece here opens up a new poetic space, a singular, intimate world, to carry and translate the words of Verlaine, Apollinaire, Mauriac or Tristan Corbière; to sing French poetry. [...] Melody, little served by composers these days, is a delicate, difficult art, devoid of artifice; the lines, harmonies and emotions are laid bare. Thomas Moreau, a musician in love with words, expresses himself to the full. And to those laid down by Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Boris Vian, Barbara or Léo Ferré, ̶ melodies, learned or popular songs ̶ he adds pretty little stones on the edges of a long road that so many creators have trodden.
On this long road, may these melodies meet with the favour of the performers. The listeners, as I was when I read these staves, will be touched and seduced."

Contents:

Soprano

• Ballade en l’honneur de la famille Trouloyaux - Georges FOUREST and Thomas MOREAU
  

• Les beaux soirs alanguis - François MAURIAC
  

• Nuit Rhénane (octavo available separately HERE) - Guillaume APOLLINAIRE
  

Duo soprano / mezzo-soprano

• L’adieu (octavo available separately HERE) - Guillaume APOLLINAIRE
  

Basso

• L’esclave - José Maria de HEREDIA

• Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit - Paul VERLAINE
  

• Aurora - Tristan CORBIÈRE
  

Baryton

• Épitaphe sur un monument aux morts de la guerre - Benjamin PÉRET
  

• Ballade en rêve - Paul VERLAINE
  

• Cors de chasse - Guillaume APOLLINAIRE
  

Duo baryton / basso

• J’hésite (Casse-couille et Casse-pied) - Henri THOMAS