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ENSEMBLE PERSPECTIVES
MENU TRACKLIST FRANÇAIS ENGLISH SUNG TEXTS
Traditional
1 Joshua* (arr. Philip Lawson) 1’58
Henry PURCELL (1659-1695)
2 Dido’s Lament* (arr. Alexander L’Estrange) 4’02
Paul SIMON (b.1941)
3 Mrs Robinson* (arr. Philip Lawson) 3’52
Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924)
4 Diane, Séléné* (arr. Fabien Touchard) 2’06
Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)
5 In Stiller Nacht 2’47
Traditional
6 Dúlamán* (arr. Michael McGlynn) 1’56
Samuel COLERIDGE-TAYLOR (1875-1912)
7 By the Lone Sea Shore* 3’22
Ralph VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS (1872-1958)
8 Whither Must I Wander* (arr. Philip Lawson) 4’09
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Traditional
9 Oh, You Wide Steppe* (arr. Alexander Levine) 3’26
Alexander LEVINE (b.1955)
10 Sicut Cervus* 4’56
Paul SIMON (b.1941)
11 50 Ways to Leave your Lover (arr. Alexander L’Estrange) 3’40
James TAYLOR (b.1948) & Don GROLNICK (1947-1996)
12 That Lonesome Road (arr. Simon Carrington) 2’43
Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)
13 Il est bon, l’enfant, il est sage (arr. Fabien Touchard) 2’45
Traditional
14 Frère Jacques (arr. Jonathan Rathbone) 6’51
Tom WAITS (b.1949) & Kathleen BRENNAN (b.1955)
15 Alice (arr. Morgan Jourdain) 4’12
Total time: 52’45
3ENSEMBLE PERSPECTIVES Mathilde BOBOT Soprano Geneviève CIRASSE Mezzo-soprano Sean CLAYTON Tenor Mathieu DUBROCA Baritone Renaud BRÈS* Bass baritone Geoffroy HEURARD Bass baritone & Music direction
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PERSPECTIVES : cinq voix au service d’un seul instrument, que nous nous efforçons de polir comme un
luthier rabote son violon, de façonner à l’aide de la palette infinie de couleurs dont dispose la voix humaine.
La voix n’est pas un simple instrument mais surtout le filtre incomparable de la nature humaine.
PERSPECTIVES : un mot qui traduit cette volonté d’ouverture, de trajectoires originales, en travaillant avec
le même degré d’exigence une pièce de musique ancienne, une chanson, une création contemporaine ou
un air de jazz, autant de styles musicaux avec lesquels chacun a pu grandir et partager son enthousiasme.
À l’image d’un cadran solaire qui projette des ombres mouvantes au long de la journée, voir le concert
comme un édifice éclairé différemment selon l’heure ou l’angle de vue et qui révèle à chaque fois un autre
visage.
Par le biais d’un moment d’écoute, aller au-delà du temps et de l’espace, mettant des pièces en
perspective, permettant à des œuvres de se rencontrer.
L’ENSEMBLE PERSPECTIVES nous invite à imaginer le concert autrement, à décloisonner davantage la
musique. Tel un édifice sonore où des échos de proportions, de constructions, d’arches et de lignes
s’articulent les uns aux autres, ce programme permet à l’oreille d’aujourd’hui de saisir les fils intemporels
qui relient Purcell à Brahms, un air traditionnel à une chanson ou à une création contemporaine pour mieux
en faire vibrer les perspectives.
PROGRAMME EMBLÉMATIQUE DE L’ENSEMBLE, cette lecture aléatoire reflète les derniers coups de cœur de
Perspectives, à la croisée de toutes les musiques, avec la volonté d’instaurer un dialogue entre les styles.
Ces liens entre musique classique et musique populaire se tissent grâce à des créations et arrangements
6composés spécialement pour l’Ensemble par Alexander L’Estrange, Jonathan Rathbone, Alexander Levine,
Fabien Touchard, Philip Lawson, Morgan Jourdain...
CET ALBUM marque ainsi l’aboutissement de plusieurs années de commandes et de travail en lien avec
tous ces compositeurs de notre temps. Il marque notre envie de graver un peu de leurs univers dans un
album « sur-mesure ». Nous leur adressons un immense merci de nous offrir leur musique avec autant de
finesse que de générosité !
Le son de l’Ensemble Perspectives est la somme de toutes les voix individuelles mises dans un creuset, qui à son
tour forme un groupe avec sa propre personnalité. Calibrer l’expression artistique et « tourner le bouton » de ce bel
instrument est une pure joie. Au cours des semaines de résidence préparatoires, nous avons cherché l’authenticité
dans la manière d’aborder le voyage dans le temps et le spectre de styles qu’offre ce répertoire, avec des musiques
qui vont de Purcell à Paul Simon, mais aussi des pièces et des arrangements commandés pour l’Ensemble. Cet
enregistrement est pour l’auditeur l’occasion de se libérer des frontières, à l’image des chanteuses et chanteurs
qui prêtent leur voix et leur cœur à la musique. Katarina Henryson (The Real Group)
PERSPECTIVES remercie chaleureusement Katarina Henryson pour sa présence bienveillante, son énergie
et sa passion communicative. Avec Franck Jaffrès, ils ont formé un formidable tandem en cabine révélant
de nouvelles perspectives. Merci également à Victor Toussaint dont le regard affûté a su capter l’esprit de
cet album. Immense gratitude à Renaud Brès dont la générosité et le talent ont permis de mener jusqu’au
bout cette belle aventure.
Geoffroy Heurard
7ENSEMBLE PERSPECTIVES Formation unique en France, l’Ensemble
CINQ VOIX AU SERVICE D’UN MÊME INSTRUMENT Perspectives est un quintette vocal a cappella.
Depuis 2011 et sous la direction artistique de Geoffroy Heurard, il explore un vaste répertoire qui s’étend de
la Renaissance, du Classique, de la création contemporaine au jazz, à la chanson, à la pop...
L’Ensemble est réuni autour de l’envie d’imaginer le concert dans un nouvel espace de perception, au-delà
des clivages stylistiques et des sentiers rebattus où la musique perd parfois son fil d’Ariane.
Pour cela, Perspectives s’attache à construire un son qui lui est propre par la création de programmes
mêlant la redécouverte d’œuvres ou de compositeurs tombés dans l’oubli à des pièces écrites “sur-mesure”
pour lui. Perspectives travaille avec des arrangeurs et compositeurs mondialement reconnus, de toutes
tendances esthétiques.
Salué par la presse spécialisée et la critique internationale, son premier disque Songs of Experience est
sorti en septembre 2017 sous le label Alpha (Outhere Music). En 2020, Perspectives a enregistré sous ce
même label son programme emblématique Playlist.
En France comme à l’étranger, l’Ensemble est l’invité de prestigieux lieux et festivals : Musicales de
Normandie, Festival de Chambord, Festival Radio-France Occitanie Montpellier, Casino de Paris, Musicales
de Bagatelle, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, Opéra-Comique, Basilique de Rocamadour, Abbaye de
Royaumont, de Fontevraud, Festival de Sully et du Loiret, Cité de la Voix de Vezelay, Festival d’Art Sacré à
Amman, Stiftsmusik Stuttgart...
La recherche d’excellence de l’Ensemble s’accompagne d’une réelle volonté d’ouvrir la musique à d’autres
mondes et d’y amener des publics hélas parfois éloignés de l’art.
Engagé en faveur de l’accès à la culture pour tous, Perspectives multiplie partenariats et projets en lien
avec les acteurs culturels et sociaux des territoires où il se produit (monde du handicap, milieu scolaire
ou carcéral), enrichissant son identité.
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GEOFFROY HEURARD Geoffroy Heurard intègre le Conservatoire National Supérieur de
Baryton-basse & direction musicale Musique de Paris après un Master Lettres & Musique à la Sorbonne ;
il y travaille particulièrement le Lied et la mélodie française, ainsi que le répertoire baroque auprès
d’Emmanuelle Haïm. Lauréat de la bourse Lavoisier, il se perfectionne à l’Universität für Musik und
darstellende Kunst de Vienne (Autriche), notamment dans la classe de Lied et Oratorio de Charles Spencer.
Il suit des masterclasses auprès de Walter Berry, Jean-Christophe Benoît, Russel Ryan, Pierre Mervant,
Rachel Yakar, David Pittman-Jennings, Nicole Fallien, Yves Sotin et auprès du groupe vocal des King’s
Singers.
Sélectionné pour le 5ème Forum Lyrique Européen, on peut aussi l’entendre sur scène dans le rôle de Budd
(Albert Herring de Britten), Ben (The Telephone de Menotti) et dans des opéras contemporains. Passionné par
l’art du récital, il interprète Die Winterreise de Schubert, les Dichterliebe et Liederkreis de Schumann, ainsi
que des mélodies françaises lors de récitals à Toulouse (La Halle aux Grains), Paris, Lyon, Gand, Genève,
accompagné au piano par Antoine Palloc et Yann Molenat.
Il chante en soliste ou en choeur avec les Arts Florissants (William Christie), l’Ensemble Correspondances
(Sébastien Daucé), l’Ensemble Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), les Cris de Paris (Geoffroy Jourdain), Le Balcon
(Maxime Pascal), Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre) ou encore la Main Harmonique (Frédéric
Bétous).
La musique vocale a cappella, qu’il découvre durant ses années de formation (notamment en petit effectif),
est une révélation. Lauréat de la Fondation Banque Populaire, il fonde en 2011 l’Ensemble Perspectives,
réunissant cinq chanteurs et explorant toute la richesse du répertoire vocal a cappella. Atteint d’une
maladie orpheline, il s’investit notamment en faveur des personnes handicapées dans de nombreuses
actions culturelles.
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PERSPECTIVES – five voices at the service of a single instrument, one we take pains in burnishing like a
violin maker planing his instrument, shaping it with the aid of all the infinite variety of colours that the
human voice has at its disposal. For the voice is not just an instrument, but the incomparable filter of
human nature.
PERSPECTIVES – a word that expresses the readiness to open up, striking out on new paths, working
with the same degree of rigour on a piece of early music, a song, a contemporary first performance, or
a jazz number: so many different musical styles that have enabled each of us to grow, and to share our
enthusiasm.
Like a sundial projecting shadows that shift throughout the day, the concert can be seen as a building that
is differently lit according to the time or angle it is viewed from, each time revealing a different aspect.
Through a moment’s attentive listening, going beyond time and space, putting the pieces in perspective,
letting different works encounter one another…
ENSEMBLE PERSPECTIVES is inviting us to imagine the concert in a different way, to further break down
musical barriers. Here is a building made of sounds, where the echoes of proportions, structures, arches
and lines are all interrelated, a programme that allows the ear of today to capture the timeless threads
connecting Purcell with Brahms, a traditional folk air with an art song or a contemporary work, to make
their perspectives vibrate more freely.
10THIS PROGRAMME IS EMBLEMATIC for the Ensemble, a random mix that reflects the Perspectives’ latest
passions, a crossroads between every kind of music, with the intention of establishing a dialogue between
styles. These links between classic and popular music have been forged through compositions and
arrangements created specially for the Ensemble by Alexander L’Estrange, Jonathan Rathbone, Alexander
Levine, Fabien Touchard, Philip Lawson, Morgan Jourdain and others.
THIS ALBUM marks the culmination of years of commissioning and liaison work with all these composers
of our time. It also marks our wish to portray something of their world in a ‘bespoke’ album. Our heartfelt
thanks go to them, for having offered us their music with so much artistry and generosity !
The sound of Ensemble Perspectives is the sum of each individual singer put into a pot that in turn is a group
with a personality of its own. To calibrate the artistic expression and “turn the knob” of this fine instrument is
pure joy. During the preparational residence weeks we have searched for authenticity in how to embrace the time
traveling and spectrum of styles offered in the repertoire, with music from Purcell to Paul Simon as well as pieces
and arrangements commissioned for the group. This recording gives an opportunity for the listener to be as free
of borders as the singers lending their voices and hearts to the music. Katarina Henryson (The Real Group)
PERSPECTIVES also warmly thanks Katarina Henryson for her benevolent presence, her energy, and her
infectious enthusiasm. She and Frank Jaffrès were a superb team in the recording cubicle, giving us fresh
perspectives. Our thanks also go to Victor Toussaint, whose keen perception enabled him to capture the
spirit of this album. And immense gratitude also to Renaud Brès, whose generosity and talent allowed us
to bring this wonderful adventure to completion.
11ENSEMBLE PERSPECTIVES Ensemble Perspectives is a vocal a
FIVE VOICES AT THE SERVICE OF A SINGLE INSTRUMENT cappella quintet, and a group that is
unique in France. Since 2011, and under the artistic direction of Geoffroy Heurard, it has explored a vast
repertoire ranging from the Renaissance through the Classical period to new music, jazz, songs, pop, and
other genres.
The Ensemble is united by its wish to reimagine the concert experience in a new area of perception, beyond
the stylistic divisions and well-trodden paths where music so often loses its Ariadne’s thread.
To that end, Perspectives focuses on developing its very own sound by creating programmes that com-
bine the rediscovery of forgotten works and composers with newly composed pieces tailor-made for the
Ensemble. Perspectives works with globally-renowned arrangers and composers of all aesthetic schools.
Hailed by both the specialist and the international press, the Ensemble’s first disc Songs of Experience was
released in September 2017 on the Alpha label (Outhere Music). In 2020, for the same label, Perspectives
recorded its emblematic programme Playlist.
In France and elsewhere, the Ensemble is regularly invited to prestigious venues and festivals, including
the Musicales de Normandie, the Festival de Chambord, the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier,
the Casino de Paris, the Musicales de Bagatelle, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, the Opéra-Comique, the
Basilica at Rocamadour, the Abbeys of Royaumont and Fontevraud, the Festival de Sully et du Loiret, Cité
de la Voix de Vezelay, the Amman Festival of Sacred Art, and Stiftsmusik Stuttgart.
The Ensemble’s quest for excellence is accompanied by its genuine desire to open up music to other
cultures, and to bring in audiences who have too often felt alienated from the arts.
Perspectives promotes access to the arts for all, liaising in multiple partnerships and projects with cultural
and social champions of the communities where the Ensemble appears (e.g. the disabled, schools, prisons)
– all of which further enriches the Ensemble’s identity.
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GEOFFROY HEURARD Geoffroy Heurard enrolled at the Conservatoire National Supérieur
Bass-baritone & music direction de Musique in Paris after taking a Masters in Literature and Music
at the Sorbonne University; he made a special study of French song and the German Lied, as well as
baroque repertoire with Emmanuelle Haïm. Having won a Lavoisier bursary, he spent three years further
improving his technique at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, notably in the
Lied and Oratorio class of Charles Spencer. He also took part in masterclasses with Walter Berry, Craig
Rutenberg, Jean-Christophe Benoît, Russel Ryan, Pierre Mervant, Rachèle Yakar, David Pittman-Jennings,
Nicole Fallien, Yves Sotin, and the vocal group The King’s Singers.
He was selected to participate in the Fifth European Forum Lyrique at Arles; his on-stage roles include
Superintendent Budd in Britten’s Albert Herring, Ben in The Telephone by Menotti, and contemporary operas
as well. Passionately committed to the art of the song recital, he has performed Schubert’s Die Winterreise,
and the Dichterliebe and Liederkreis Op. 39 cycles by Schumann, as well as French song, in recitals at Tou-
louse (in the Halle aux Grains), and in Paris, Lyon, Ghent and Geneva, accompanied at the piano by Antoine
Palloc and Yann Molenat. Both as soloist and choir member he has sung with les Arts Florissants (directed
by William Christie), the Ensemble Correspondances (Sebastien Daucé), the Ensemble Pygmalion (Raphaël
Pichon), les Cris de Paris (Geoffroy Jourdain), Le Balcon (Maxime Pascal), Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent
Dumestre) and la Main Harmonique (Frédéric Bétous).
His discovery of vocal ‘a cappella’ music (particularly in small groups) during his years of training came
as a revelation to him. On winning a Banque Populaire Foundation Award in 2011, he formed Ensemble
Perspectives, a group of five singers, to explore all the treasures of the vocal a cappella repertoire. Having
himself an orphan disease he is sensitive to the problems of the disabled, engaging in many cultural
activities on their behalf.
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Traditional Paul SIMON (*1941)
1. Joshua (arr. Philip Lawson)
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho 3. Mrs. Robinson (arr. Philip Lawson)
And the walls come tumbling down And here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson
You may talk about your men of Gideon Jesus loves you more than you will know
You may brag about your men of Saul God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
There’s none like good old Joshua Heaven holds a place for those who pray
At the battle of Jericho We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files
Up to the walls of Jericho We’d like to help you learn to help yourself
He marched with spear in hand Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes
Go blow them ram horns, Joshua cried Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home
‘Cause the battle is in my hands And here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho Jesus loves you more than you will know
Jericho, Jericho God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho Heaven holds a place for those who pray
And the walls come tumbling down Hide it in the hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes
It’s a little secret just the Robinson’s affair
Henry PURCELL (1659-1695) Most of all you’ve got to hide it from the kids
2. Dido’s Lament (arr. Alexander L’Estrange) Mrs. Robinson
From Dido and Aeneas, Z.626 Jesus loves you more than you will know
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
When I am laid, am laid in earth
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
May my wrongs create
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
No trouble, no trouble in, in thy breast
Going to the candidates’ debate
Remember me, remember me, but ah
Laugh about it, shout about it
Forget my fate
When you’ve got to choose
Every way you look at this you lose
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Jolting Joe has left and gone away
14Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924) Traditional
4. Diane, Séléné (arr. Fabien Touchard) 6. Dúlamán (arr. Michael McGlynn)
From L’Horizon chimérique, Op.118 N° 3 Dúlamán na binne buí, dúlamán Gaelach,
Diane, Séléné, lune de beau métal, Dúlamán na farraige, dúlamán Gaelach.
Qui reflète vers nous, par ta face déserte, “A ‘níon mhín ó! Sin anall na fir shuirí”
Dans l’immortel ennui du calme sidéral, “A mháthair mhín ó! Cuir na roithleán go dtí mé!”.
Le regret d’un soleil dont nous pleurons la perte. Rachaidh me chun ‘lúir leis a’ dúlamán Gaelach
Ô lune, je t’en veux de ta limpidité “Ceannódh bróga daor’,” arsa’ dúlamán Gaelach.
Injurieuse au trouble vain des pauvres âmes, Bróga breátha dubha ar a’ dúlamán Gaelach.
Et mon cœur, toujours las et toujours agité, ‘Bairéad agus triús ar a’ dúlamán Gaelach
Aspire vers la paix de ta nocturne flamme. Tá ceann buí óir ar a’dúlamán Gaelach.
Tá dhá chluais mhaol’ar a’ dúlamán Maorach.
Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)
5. In Stiller Nacht Samuel COLERIDGE-TAYLOR (1875-1912)
From 49 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33
7. By the Lone Sea Shore
In stiller Nacht zur ersten Wacht
By the lone seashore, mournfully beat the waves;
Ein’ Stimm’ begunnt zu klagen.
Mournfully evermore, the wild wind sobs and raves.
Der nächt’ge Wind hat süß und lind
A sadness and a sense of deep unrest
Zu mir den Klang getragen.
Brood on the clouds and on the water’s breast.
Von herbem Leid und Traurigkeit
But lo! The white seamew careering, float indolently by,
Ist mir das Herz zerflossen.
And lo! A snowy sail appearing gleams fair against the sky,
Die Blümelein mit Tränen rein
The sadness and the loneliness depart,
Hab’ ich sie all’ begossen
And nature smiles with sympathy of heart.
Der schöne Mond will untergahn,
Für Leid nicht mehr mag scheinen.
Die Sternelan ihr Glitzen stahn
Mit mir sie wollen weinen.
Kein Vogelsang, noch Freudenklang
Man höret in den Lüften
Die wilden Tier’ trau’r’n auch mit mir
In Steinen und in Klüften
15Ralph VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS (1872-1958) Traditional
8. Whither Must I Wander (arr. Philip Lawson) 9. Oh, You Wide Steppe (arr. Alexander Levine)
From Songs of Travel
Ах ты, степь широкая, Степь раздольная,
Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? Ах, ты, Волга-матушка, Волга вольная.
Hunger my driver, I go where I must. Ой, да не степной орел Подымается,
Cold blows the winter wind over hill and heather: То речной бурлак Разгуляется.
Thick drives the rain and my roof is in the dust. Не летай, орел, Низко по земле, Не гуляй, бурлак, Близко
к берегу!
Loved of wise men was the shade of my roof-tree,
The true word of welcome was spoken in the door–
Dear days of old with the faces in the firelight, Alexander LEVINE (*1955)
Kind folks of old, you come again no more. 10. Sicut Cervus
Home was home then, my dear, full of kindly faces, Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum,
Home was home then, my dear, happy for the child. Ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.
Fire and the windows bright glittered on the moorland;
Song, tuneful song, built a palace in the wild. Sitivit anima mea ad Deum fortem vivum :
Quando veniam
Now when day dawns on the brow of the moorland, Et apparebo ante faciem Dei ?
Lone stands the house, and the chimney-stone is cold.
Fuerunt mihi lacrimae maeae panes die ac nocte,
Lone let it stand, now the friends are all departed,
Dum dicitur mihi quotidie :
The kind hearts, the true hearts, that loved the place
Ubi est Deus tuus ?
of old.
Spring shall come, come again, calling up the moorfowl,
Spring shall bring the sun and the rain, bring the bees
and flowers;
Red shall the heather bloom over hill and valley,
Soft flow the stream through the even-flowing hours.
Fair the day shine as it shone on my childhood–
Fair shine the day on the house with open door;
Birds come and cry there and twitter in the chimney–
But I go for ever and come again no more.
16And I believe in the morning you’ll begin to see the light”
Paul SIMON (*1941) And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was
11. Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover (arr. Alexander L’Estrange) right
“The problem is all inside your head”, she said to me There must be fifty ways to leave your lover
“The answer is easy if you take it logically Fifty ways to leave your lover
I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free You just slip out the back, Jack
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover” Make a new plan, Stan
She said, “it’s really not my habit to intrude You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued Just get yourself free
But I’ll repeat myself at the risk of being crude Oh, you hop on the bus, Gus
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover You don’t need to discuss much
Fifty ways to leave your lover” Just drop off the key, Lee
You just slip out the back, Jack And get yourself free
Make a new plan, Stan Slip out the back, Jack
You don’t need to be coy, Roy Make a new plan, Stan
Just get yourself free You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Hop on the bus, Gus You just listen to me
You don’t need to discuss much Hop on the bus, Gus
Just drop off the key, Lee You don’t need to discuss much
And get yourself free Just drop off the key, Lee
Ooh, slip out the back, Jack And get yourself free
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
You just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
She said, “it grieves me so to see you in such pain
I wish there was something I could do to make you smile again”
I said, “I appreciate that and would you please explain
About the fifty ways”
She said, “why don’t we both just sleep on it tonight?
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James TAYLOR (*1948) & Don GROLNICK (1947-1996) Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)
12. That Lonesome Road (arr. Simon Carrington) 13. Il est bon l’enfant, il est sage... (arr. Fabien Touchard)
From L’Enfant et les sortilèges
Walk down that lonesome road
All by yourself Il est bon, l’Enfant, il est sage, bien sage...
Don’t turn your head Il a pansé la plaie, étanché le sang...
Back over your shoulder Il est sage, si sage, si doux.
And only stop to rest yourself Il est bon, l’Enfant, il est sage, bien sage.
When the silver moon Il est si doux.
Is shining high above the trees Maman !
If I had stopped to listen once or twice
If I had closed my mouth and opened my eyes
If I had cooled my head and warmed my heart Traditional
I’d not be on this road tonight 14. Frère Jacques (arr. Jonathan Rathbone)
Carry on
Frère Jacques, frère Jacques,
Never mind feeling sorry for yourself
Dormez-vous ? Dormez-vous ?
It doesn’t save you from your troubled mind
Sonnez les matines! Sonnez les matines !
Ding, dang, dong !
Walk down that lonesome road
All by yourself
Don’t turn your head
Back over your shoulder
And only stop to rest yourself
When the silver moon
Is shining high above the trees
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Tom WAITS (*1949) I fell through the ice
15. Alice (arr. Morgan Jourdain) Of Alice
It’s dreamy weather we’re on And so a secret kiss
You waved your crooked wand Brings madness with the bliss
Along an icy pond with a frozen moon And I will think of this
A murder of silhouette crows I saw When I’m dead in my grave
And the tears on my face Set me adrift and I’m lost over there
And the skates on the pond And I must be insane
They spell Alice To go skating on your name
I disappear in your name And by tracing it twice
But you must wait for me I fell through the ice
Somewhere across the sea Of Alice
There’s a wreck of a ship
Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide
And the raindrops on my window
And the ice in my drink
Baby all I can think of is Alice
Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier
And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I’m dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I’m lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
19À Charlotte, Camille, Noémie et Romane.
L’Ensemble Perspectives est soutenu par le Ministère de la Culture (DRAC Centre-Val de Loire), la Région Centre-Val
de Loire, le Département du Loiret, la Ville d’Orléans, la Fondation Banque Populaire, Mécénat Musical Société
Général, BEG Ingénierie, la Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, la SACEM, le Protocole Culture & Santé DRAC/
ARS. L’Ensemble reçoit le soutien ponctuel de la Spedidam, du FCM, de l’Adami, de Copie privée, et de la SPPF.
Perspectives est membre de la Fevis et du Bureau Export.
Recorded in August & September 2020 at Eglise Saint-Pierre (Paris)
Recorded producer, editing & mastering Franck Jaffrès
Vocal coach Katarina Henryson
John Thornley English Translation
Valérie Lagarde Design & artwork
Cover photo © plainpicture/Günther Philipp
Inside photos © Sandrine Expilly
OMF 704 p Ensemble Perspectives 2021 © OMF 2021
21Alice – commande de l’Ensemble Perspectives Dúlamán Thomas Waits / Kathleen Brennan Music composed by Michael McGlynn, text traditional Irish. © Jalma Music représenté en France par Because Editions © Michael McGlynn 1995 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover – commande de l’Ensemble Perspectives Joshua – commande de l’Ensemble Perspectives Sur les motifs de l’œuvre originale 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover © Philip Lawson 2017 Auteurs-compositeurs : Paul Simon That Lonesome Road © Paul Simon Music © I98I, I992 Country Road Music, Inc. All Rights Reserved Whither Must I Wander – commande de l’Ensemble Perspectives Mrs Robinson – commande de l’Ensemble Perspectives Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson / Ralph Vaughan-Williams Paul Simon © Boosey & Co. LTD. représenté en France par Imagem SARL © Songs of Universal Inc Il est bon l’enfant, il est sage – commande de l’Ensemble Perspectives Dido’s Lament (© Fabien Touchard 2018) © 2017 Alexander L’Estrange. All Rights Reserved. Tiré de L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Maurice Ravel © Ed. Durand Diane, Séléné – commande de l’Ensemble Perspectives (© Fabien Touchard 2017) Tiré de L’Horizon chimérique, Gabriel Fauré Oh, You Wide Steppe Alexander Levine: Oh, You Wide Steppe © 2016 by Peters Edition Limited, London Sicut Cervus – commande de l’Ensemble Perspectives Alexander Levine: Sicut Cervus © 2019 by Peters Edition Limited, London Frère Jacques – commande de l’Ensemble Perspectives Jonathan Rathbone ©Peters Edition, London 22
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