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Idylle
Idylle
Lea Desandre, Thomas Dunford

Idylle

€14,99 EUR
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Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunford craft something rare on *Idylle*: a conversation between voice and theorbo that feels genuinely intimate rather than historically reconstructed. Desandre's soprano—luminous and unhurried—meets Dunford's delicate plucking across a landscape of French Baroque song and gentle minimalist interludes (Satie's "Gymnopédie No. 1" and "Gnossiennes No. 1" drift through like half-remembered dreams). The album is less a formal recital than an invitation into a private idyll, where pastoral texts by Marmontel and others about love, desire, and rural solitude gain new life through this understated pairing. There's a meditative quality here—each phrase breathes, each silence matters—that rewards close listening. Recorded for Erato in 2023, this feels like music made for listeners who want to sit with a record rather than simply hear it.

Item Details+
Genre Classical
Media Mint (M)
Sleeve Mint (M)
Label Erato
Year 2023
Country France
Format CD
Tracklist+

1. Le Doux Silence de Nos Bois

2. Néère

3. Le Temps De L'Amour

4. Gnossiennes No. 1

5. Celle Qui Fait Mon Tourment

6. Auprès Du Feu On Fait L'amour

7. Tristes Déserts, Sombre Retraite

8. J'ai Deux Amants

9. Gymnopédie No. 1

10. Ma Bergère Est Tendre Et Fidèle

11. A Chloris

12. Sans Frayeur Dans Ce Bois

13. Sarabande

14. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour

15. On N'entend Rien Dans Ce Bocage

16. Mes Longs Cheveux Descendent

17. Ombre De Mon Amant

18. Vos Mépris Chaque Jour

19. Chaconne

20. Dis, Quand Reviendras-tu ?

21. Laissez Durer La Nuit

22. Amours Divins

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