‘Les chemins’ is the new CD by soprano Tinka Pypker and pianist Maurice
Lammerts van Bueren. The album takes its title from the song “Les chemins de l’amour” by Poulenc. In this song, the first-person tries to find, to relive the ways of love. In the other works on the album, too, the theme of “roads” keeps returning in different ways. Sometimes this is very literal, in other songs the roads symbolize a choice or a development.
The album includes songs by Samuel Barber, Francis Poulenc, Bertha Frensel Wegener-
Koopman, Claude Debussy, Léon Orthel and Mathilde Wantenaar.
Listen on:
Album Transcript:
Some composers invented new forms of composition or embraced developments initiated by others.
Much has changed in the years between when Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman (1874-1953) started
her career as a composer and the appearance of the first works composed by Mathilde Wantenaar (born 1993):
Léon Orthel, Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc, and Samuel Barber, along with the two female composers, contributed to the body of art songs without being completely swept away by the latest musical developments of their time.
Maurice Lammerts van Bueren and Tinka Pypker present a program of songs by these composers, with the idea
of finding one’s own path through life as a central theme. The rarely recorded songs of the Dutch composers Léon Orthel and Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman and the new voice of Mathilde Wantenaar find a place among more
familiar names.
Meet the artists:
Jakko van der Heijden
Producer
