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Wiener Zeitung – Melodies nach Verlaine

March 10, 2015

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2015-03-10, Wiener Zeitung

“Ein Album wie ein ganz schön großes Kleinod: Da wurde nicht gespart, um den gern gehörten Liebling unter den Countertenören Philippe Jaroussky zu inszenieren. Sein Zusammenspiel mit ebenso grandiosen Künstlerfreunden wie Nathalie Stutzmann und dem Quatuor Ebène sowie Jérôme Ducros (Klavier) gehört französischer Poesie des Paul Verlaine – also entstanden nach der Emanzipation von deutschen Lied-Einflüssen. Wie verwachsen erscheinen Verlaines so verzaubernde Worte mit den Mélodies-Klängen von Impressionisten wie Debussy, von Klassikern wie Canteloube und Chabrier, von Neuerern wie Arthur Honegger bis Edgar Varèse”…

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Frankfurter Rundschau – Philippe Jaroussky in Frankfurt: Jaroussky singt fürs Dämmerlicht

March 9, 2015

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2015-03-09, Frankfurter Rundschau

“Umhergetrieben von bösen Winden, ein welkes Blatt, ein Dichter, der seine Ruhe nicht findet.“ Verlaine skizziert in seinem „Chanson d’automne“ eine Weltmüdigkeit, die Philippe Jaroussky in sachter Tristesse kongenial ausformuliert”…

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Bayerischer Rundfunk – CD-Tipp Philippe Jaroussky “Green”

March 7, 2015

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2015-03-07, Bayerischer Rundfunk BR

Französische Lieder nach Gedichten von Verlaine

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Augsburger Allgemeine – Musik: Lieder als Quelle der Inspiration

March 7, 2015

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2015-03-07, Augsburger Allgemeine

„Für mich“, so beteuert Jaroussky im Gespräch mit der NR vor dem Konzert, „ist genau dieses Repertoire wie ein geheimer Garten, eine Quelle der Inspiration“. Und nach zwei Stunden ist er keineswegs müde, abgebrannt, ganz im Gegenteil: Seine Lieder streifen die Seele, berühren Herz und Sinn des Publikums.

Wer derart galant wie Philippe Jaroussky zu intonieren vermag, darf getrost zu den herausragenden Künstlern unserer Zeit gezählt werden.

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Rondo – Green, mélodies françaises sur des poèmes de Verlaine

March 7, 2015

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2015-03-07, Rondo

Überhaupt hört man diesem Recital an, dass es für Jaroussky eine Herzensangelegenheit gewesen ist, sich nach seinem Erfolgsalbum „Opium“ einmal mehr mit dieser Epoche zu beschäftigen. Und das Erstaunliche ist, dass Jaroussky trotz eines mächtig angestiegenen Arbeitspensums wieder völlig unverbraucht und nahtlos auf seine sängerischen Wunderwaffen von 2009 zurückgreifen konnte. Dazu gehören artikulatorische Subtilität, emotionale Unmittelbarkeit und nicht zuletzt eine Ausdrucksfinesse, die dem symbolistischen Denken und Fühlen ganz, ganz nahe kommt.

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Rheinische Post Online – Countertenor singt in den höchsten Tönen

March 4, 2015

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2015-03-04, Rheinische Post Online

Mit fabelhafter Wandlungsfähigkeit dringt er in eine Welt vor, die Sänger seines Fachs bislang kaum je ergründen wollten: Vertonungen von Gedichten des Lyrikers Paul Verlaine. Das ist ein rekordverdächtiger Zeitensprung in den Salon, das Cabaret und die Kaschemmen im Paris des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Die zeitgleich unter dem Motto “Melodies françaises” erscheinende Platte heißt einfach “Green” – grün. “Das ist der Titels eines Lieds, das Debussy, Caplet und Fauré vertont haben, eines schöner als das andere, und auf keines wollte ich verzichten.”

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To The Highest Heavens

Paris. The Frenchman Philippe Jaroussky is considered the greatest countertenor in the world. His new CD is not about Baroque music, but with music to poems by Frenchman Paul Verlaine. With these songs, he is on a tour. By Wolfram Goertz

What is a countertenor? To anticipate rumours and legends: They aren’t emasculated tenors. Neither are countertenors necessarily gay nor somehow effeminate. They are not singing conventional female parts because they feel like women, but because with a male voice, they have mastered the art to sound like certain artists at that time. A countertenor sounds like a castrato but retains his original physical condition.

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ARTE Magazin – Ich brauche nicht immer Applaus

March 2, 2015

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2015-03-02, ARTE Magazin

“Als wir den französischen Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky im Dezember zum Interview treffen, hat er am Vorabend das Hamburger Publikum mit Sakralmusik von Vivaldi begeistert. Heute gibt es erst einmal Kamillentee. Philippe Jaroussky kämpft mit der komplizierten Teesieb-Konstruktion – begegnet dem Kratzen im Hals aber gelassen”…

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Jaroussky: “I don’t always need applause”

The charismatic countertenor Philippe Jaroussky pleads for greater openness in music, talks shop about Lady Gaga – and explains why reverent silence can be a competition to any applause.

In December, when we meet the French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, he had just delighted the Hamburg audience with sacred music by Vivaldi the evening before. Today, first of all, there is chamomile tea. Philippe Jaroussky is struggling with the complicated design of the tea strainer, but is relaxed about his scratchy throat. Apparently, the star of high range singing in can handle pressure quite well. The reason for our meeting is another sacred opus which he is going to perform a little later, together with the Hungarian soprano Emöke Barath, at the magnificent chapel of the Castle Fontainbleau: Pergolesi’s setting to music of the Stabat Mater.

ARTE: A glance at a list of your favourite music reveals: you also like to listen to Pop.
PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY: For me, it’s about an exciting mixture of Classical and Pop. Lorraine Hunt and Cecilia Bartoli next to Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. I’m not particularly interested in Lady Gaga, but recently, I saw a performance of her on the internet. She was singing Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang” wearing a vermilion leather suit, an enormous wig – but she sang without exaggerating. You can hear the range of her voice, her classical education. She could be one of the greatest Jazz singers of our times, and surely isn’t a Pop monster. We all should open our minds a little more. I have to confess that I didn’t start to discover singers like Ella Fitzgerald or Mercedes Sosa until eight years ago. A veritable shock.

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Das Erste, ttt – Superstar der hohen Töne

March 1, 2015

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2015-03-01, Das Erste, ttt (Titel, Thesen, Temperamente)

“Er sang die Arien des Kastraten Farinelli und die großen Klassiker des Barock. Das leiseste Atemholen wird bei ihm zu subtiler Gestaltung: Philippe Jaroussky ist der beste Countertenor der Gegenwart – so urteilen zumindest viele Kritiker des “Orchideenfachs” seit Jahren. Philippe Jaroussky, ein 38-jähriger Franzose mit dem “Look” eines verführerischen Engels – klanglich souverän und mühelos virtuos”…

Source: Das Erste

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Superstar of the High Notes

Why countertenor Philippe Jaroussky sings the praise of the poet Verlaine

He has sung the arias written for the castrato Farinelli as well as the big classics of Baroque. The most silent breath turns subtle creation with him: Philippe Jaroussky is the best countertenor of the present – at least, that’s the judgement of many critics of this rare discipline, for years now. Philippe Jaroussky, a Frenchman of 38 [sic! – he is 37 in fact] years with the looks of a seductive angel – vocally masterful, and effortlessly virtuosic.

Jaroussky’s repertoire spans exceptionally wide: from the emphasis on Baroque up to contemporary opera. For his new album, “Green,” he went back to the 19th century, and immersed himself in the life of the poet whose poems were set to music more often than anyone else’s in France: the scandalous genius Paul Verlaine, iconic figure of the Bohème, protagonist of scandalous stories full of violence, sex, and passions, who the French are as familiar with – which includes his adventurous biography – as the Germans are with Goethe, Schiller, or Heine.

“ttt” met Philippe Jaroussky in Paris. Starting at the 4th of May, he is going to tour Germany and Europe. We asked him why we should still be interested in Verlaine today.

Author: Stefanie Appel

The feature: [transcript]
Philippe Jaroussky: His voice is inspired by beauty. As if it was fallen out of time. In Paris, in this winter, it is almost unreal. Mostly, he sings sacral music and often, Baroque opera, the classical domain of a countertenor. Now, for once, he wanted to do something completely different.

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Journal Frankfurt – Keeping a Distance from Opera’s Hysteria

March 1, 2015

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“Abstandhalter zur Hysterie der Oper”
Journal Frankfurt, February 2015

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On his current tour, the French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky surprises his audience with fin de siècle songs.

Interview: Christian Rupp

JOURNAL FRANKFURT: Philippe, you are one of the world’s most famous countertenors – yet relatively little about your private life is known to the public. Don’t you like to talk about it?
PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY: I don’t talk about it that often because, really, the focus is on my art.

But you’re a star …
Star? Well, I lead a normal life; I have been together with my partner for eight years now. All in all, it is a very settled life.

You have put your cards on the table about him right from the beginning…
Of course. When I started my career, I had to decide. So, right from the start, I said that I had a partner. Then there’s no fuss anymore. I’m not a pop singer who has to hide that for twenty years because otherwise he would lose the market section of all the teenage girls.

Another known fact is that you like to travel a lot. How frequently do people recognize you on your travels?
It depends. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. When I walk the street in Paris, of course, someone will always recognize me. But people react completely different than they would if I were a pop star. Because, primarily, it is in Händel, Vivaldi, Bach that they are interested– not in me. I don’t create songs, I don’t create a look, I am not a brand. That’s why people are much more respectful. Classical music stars are in a very comfortable position in this regard.

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