Olivier Bergeron - Nuits blanches (2025)

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Date: Sept. 19, 2025

Olivier Bergeron - Nuits blanches (2025)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Digital Booklet) 145 MB | Cover | 41:22 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 108 MB
Classical | Label: Leaf Music Distribution

Named one of CBC’s 30 Under 30, baritone Olivier Bergeron makes his recording debut with Nuits blanches. Featuring five song cycles by Ravel, Debussy, Fauré, and Jolivet. The album explores the many shades of love through the intimate lens of mélodie française.

At its heart is Debussy’s elusive Nuits blanches—a haunting, long-lost song cycle with texts by the composer himself. Une nuit blanche can be translated as “a sleepless night;” (the full expression is “passer une nuit blanche.)” In the case of the new recording, it is love causing the sleepless nights, best exemplified in the text of Claude Debussy’s sensual, intense Endless night: “Nuits sans fin. Tristesse morne des heures où l’on attend!” From the shimmering innocence of young love to the fragile vulnerabilities of jealousy and regret, the eclectic repertoire unveils a different emotional hue in popular melodies like Gabriel Fauré’s Mélodies « de Venise » (a setting of poems by Paul Verlaine), paired with rarities such as André Jolivet’s cycle, Poèmes intimes, dedicated to his wife, Hilda. Like Fauré’s, Jolivet’s cycle comprises five poems; the work was premiered in 1944 in Paris. Curiously, the first three cycles were premiered at the same venue in Paris, as part of the Société Nationale de Musique concerts, where “serious” French music was presented from 1871 (during the Franco-Prussian War) until 1939.

All but Debussy’s Nuits blanches were published during the authors’ lifetimes. The manuscripts of his unfinished Nuits blanches project were found in composer Arthur Honegger’s library in 1991 by his daughter and just published in Paris in the year 2000. 

The two acclaimed musicians bring a refined lyricism to this repertoire, drawing listeners in to the hushed elegance of the fin-de-siècle salon, where poetry and music once breathed side by side. 

TRACKLIST

1. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Epigrammes de Clément Marot: No. 1, D'Anne qui me jecta de la neige, M. 21
2. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Epigrammes de Clément Marot: No. 2, D'Anne jouant de l'espinette, M. 10
3. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Le promenoir des deux amants, L. 118: No. 1, Auprès de cette grotte sombre
4. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Le promenoir des deux amants, L. 118: No. 2, Crois mon conseil, chère Climène
5. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Le promenoir des deux amants, L. 118: No. 3, Je tremble en voyant ton visage
6. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - 5 Mélodies, Op. 58: No. 1, Mandoline
7. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - 5 Mélodies, Op. 58: No. 2, En sourdine
8. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - 5 Mélodies, Op. 58: No. 3, Green
9. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - 5 Mélodies, Op. 58: No. 4, А Clymène
10. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - 5 Mélodies, Op. 58: No. 5, C'est l'extase
11. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Poèmes intimes: No. 1, Amour
12. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Poèmes intimes: No. 2, Je veux te voir …
13. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Poèmes intimes: No. 3, Nous baignons dans une eau tranquille …
14. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Poèmes intimes: No. 4, Tu dors …
15. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Poèmes intimes: No. 5, Pour te parler …
16. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Nuits blanches, L. 94: No. 1, Nuit sans fin
17. Olivier Godin;Olivier Bergeron - Nuits blanches, L. 94: No. 2, Lorsqu'elle est entrée

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