Folk Songs Nora Gubisch & Alain Altinoglu

• 1 No. 1. El pano moruno 01:11
• 2 No. 2. Seguidilla murciana 01:18
• 3 No. 3. Asturiana 02:11
• 4 No. 4. Jota 03:10
• 5 No. 5. Nana 01:46
• 6 No. 6. Cancion 01:02
• 7 No. 7. Polo 01:33
• 8 No. 1. Aquel sombrero de monte 03:12
• 9 No. 1. El Vito 01:42
• 10 No. 7. El tra la la y Punteado 01:07
• 11 No. 1. Black is the Colour 03:18
• 12 No. 2. I Wonder as I Wander 02:05
• 13 No. 3. Loosin Yelav 02:20
• 14 No. 4. Rossignolet du bois 01:19
• 15 No. 5. A la femminisca 01:25
• 16 No. 6. La donna ideale 01:26
• 17 No. 7. Ballo 01:34
• 18 No. 8. Motettu de tristura 01:48
• 19 No. 9. Malurous qu'o uno fenno 00:51
• 20 No. 10. Lo fiolaire 02:41
• 21 No. 11. Azerbaijan love song 02:27
• 22 No. 1. Ay majo de mi vida! 02:40
• 23 No. 2. Oh, muerte cruel! 02:09
• 24 No. 3. De aquel majo amante 02:54
• 25 No. 6. El mirar de la maja 02:41
• 26 No. 1. Gestillte Sehnsucht (Longing Eased) 06:02
• 27 No. 2. Geistliches Wiegenlied (Sacred Lullaby) 05:25
• 28 5 Lieder, Op. 49 01:43
• Total Runtime 01:03:00

Info for Folk Songs

After opening up frontiers with Ravel’s Greek and Hebrew songs in their last disc together, Nora Gubisch and Alain Altinoglu now give us a chance to hear an even more cosmopolitan world, guided by their mixed origins, their roots: “Our personal geography is pretty varied: I am of Armenian descent, while Nora possesses both Spanish and German ancestry.”

This warm recording includes a new recording of Berio’s Folk Songs, for which Nora Gubisch’s research on diction and the traditional sources (especially in Azerbaidjan) has been advantageous.

“a lovely folk-song set of mainly Spanish composers...Gubisch’s singing often lacks the artlessness demanded, though; the best performances are reserved for intimate readings of Brahms’s two Op 91 settings and his celebrated Wiegenlied.” (The Sunday Times)

“Gubisch's lived-in, streetwise mezzo sounds good in Berio and Falla, but is graceless in Obradors and too self-consciously raunchy for Granados...Altinoglu is a terrific pianist and a no-nonsense conductor for the Berio.” (The Guardian)

Nora Gubisch, mezzo-soprano
Alain Altinoglu, piano
Gérard Caussé, viola
Raphaël Perraud, cello
Bastien Pelat, flute
Raphaël Sévère, clarinet
Iris Torossian, harp
Adrien Perruchon, percussion
Camille Baslé, percussion

Nora Gubisch
Born in Paris, Nora Gubisch, began her musical studies in the Young Choir of Radio France and studied piano with Catherine Collard, then studied singing at the Conservatory of Paris with Christiane Eda-Pierre where she won first prize. Later she met Vera Rozsa becomes his master.

She is now one of the most sought-after mezzos.

At the opera, she sings the title role of Carmen in Berlin, Paris, Zurich and many productions worldwide, Juditha triumphans (Vivaldi) Salammbô (Fenelon)at the Opéra de Paris, La Belle Hélène (Offenbach) Festivals of Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence, The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)at the Opéra de Lyon, Salomé (Mariotte), Tancredi (Rossini), Thérèse (Massenet) ; Sesto (La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart), Penelope (Il Ritorno d’ Ulisse in patria, Monteverdi), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust, Berlioz), Charlotte (Werther Massenet ), Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle, Bartók), Amneris (Aida, Verdi) ; and Wagnerian roles like Magdalene (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung) and Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde)…

She appears on major international stages , under the direction of Sir Colin Davis, Georges Prêtre , Lorin Maazel , Nikolaus Harnoncourt, James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach, Armin Jordan, and with the orchestras of New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, l’orchestre National de France, the New Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the City of Birmingham Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra …

Nora Gubisch sings also the oratorio and chamber music and since several years she gives recitals with the pianist Alain Altinoglu with whom she recorded already two discs of French melodies critically acclaimed Duparc’s and Ravel’s Melodies (naive). Her discography also includes ” A child of our time ” (Tipett), “Perela ” (Dusapin ), ” Rheinnixen ” (Offenbach) ” Königskinder ” (Humperdinck), ” Hary Janos ” (Kodály), Requiem (Lancino), ” Night of Madness ” (Escaich) ” Therese ” by Massenet (title role)and recently her latest album has just bee released : ” Folk Songs ” (Naive)…

Her projects this season lead her to the Salzburg Festival to create the an opera of Dalbavie “Charlotte Salomon “. Then at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Carmen, Judith (Blue Bear Castle by Bartok) in Vienna. Charlotte in ” Werther ” at the Liceu in Barcelona.

Nora Gubisch was appointed in France ” Knight of Arts and Letters”.

Alain Altinoglu
One of the most sought-after young conductors today, Alain Altinoglu quickly established himself both on the orchestras and the operas podiums.

Highlights of his activities with orchestra are his debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna at the Musikverein, Staatskapelle Dresden, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and returning concerts with Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, La Fenice Orchestra, Orchestre de la Monnaie Bruxelles, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestre du Capitole Toulouse, and the Orchestre National de Montpellier etc.

On the opera field, Alain Altinoglu’s coming activity includes productions in the most prestigious opera houses: Werther, as well as a new production of Faust at the Metropolitan Opera in New-York, Don Giovanni, Ballo in Maschera, Roméo & Juliette, and Simon Boccanegra at the Staatsoper Vienna, Cendrillon at La Monnaie in Brussels, Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House, Don Giovanni, Salomé, L’amour des trois oranges at the Paris Opera, Rigoletto at the Köln Opera, Der Fliegende Holländer, Salomé at the Zürich Opera, Salomé, Carmen and Eugene Onegin at the Deutsche Opera Berlin, Ballo in Maschera at the Chorégies d’Orange, a new production of Manon Lescaut by Puccini at the Bayerische Staatsoper, etc.

His received recently outstanding successes at the Metropolitan Opera House, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Opera Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, Lyric Opera Chicago, Opera National de Paris, Theatre du Châtelet, San Francisco Opera, Theatre des Champs-Elysées, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Opera de Bordeaux, Festival d’Aix en Provence or Salzburg Festival, Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires.

Particularly interested in the Lied repertoire, Alain Altinoglu as a pianist regularly accompanies the mezzo-soprano Nora Gubisch. A recording of songs by Henri Duparc was released with the “Cascavelle” label, and more recently a recording of Ravel for the Label Naïve (to be released).

He furthermore recorded recently The opera “Fiesque “ by Lalo starring Roberto Alagna (Deutsche Grammophon), the cello concertos by Eric Tanguy with Orchestre National de France, “Le Serment” by Tansman with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Perela by Pascal Dusapin for the Naïve label. A recording of Henryk Gorecki’s third symphony together with the Sinfonia Varsovia was also released with Naïve.

Alain Altinoglu studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he also taught as professor of the vocal ensemble class for ten years.

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