8/27/2026

Reynaldo Hahn - Le Rossignol Éperdu



Renaldo HAHN (1874-1947)

Le Rossignol Éperdu (1899-1910)
53 Poems for Piano

Earl Wild (piano)

I. PREMIÈRE SUITE : 1. Frontispice – 2. Andromède résignée – 3. Douloureuse rêverie dans un bois de sapins – 4. Le bouquet de pensées – 5. Soleil d’automne – 6. Gretchen – 7. Les deux écharpes – 8. Liebe ! Liebe ! – 9. Eros caché dans les bois – 10. La fausse indifférence – 11. Chanson de midi – 12. Antiochus – 13. Nevermore – 14. Portrait – 15. L’enfant au perroquet – 16. Les rêveries du prince Églantine – 17. Ivresse – 18. L’arôme suprême – 19. Berceuse féroce – 20. Passante – 21. La danse de l’amour et de l’ennui – 22. Ouranos – 23. Les héliotropes du Clos-André – 24. Effet de nuit sur la Seine – 25. Per i piccoli canali – 26. Mirage – 27. La danse de l’amour et du danger – 28. Matinée parisienne – 29. Chérubin tragique – 30. Les chênes enlacés.

II. ORIENT : 31. En caïque – 32. Narghilé – 33. Les chiens de Galata – 34. Rêverie nocturne sur le Bosphore – 35. La rose de Blida – 36. L’oasis.

III. CARNET DE VOYAGE : 37. L’ange verrier – 38. Le jardin de Pétrarque – 39. La Nativité – 40. Faunesse dansante – 41. Les noces du duc de Joyeuse – 42. Le petit mail – 43. Les pages d’Elisabeth – 44. La jeunesse et l’été ornent de fleurs le tombeau de Pergolèse – 45. Vieux bahuts.

IV. VERSAILLES : 46. Hommage à Martius – 47. La reine au jardin – 48. Le réveil de Flore – 49. Le banc songeur – 50. La fête de Terpsichore – 51. Adieux au soir tombant – 52. Hivernale – 53. Le pèlerinage inutile.


Review:

You’d think that at 86 Earl Wild would have surveyed all of the forgotten Romantic piano literature that’s worth reviving. Not quite, folks! Here’s an absolutely exquisite cycle of “53 poèmes pour piano” by Reynaldo Hahn, collectively titled Le Rossignol Éperdu (The Distraught Nightingale). Synthesize early Scriabin preludes, the sparse lyricism of late Liszt, Fauré’s subtle harmonic palette, the delicate balance of Mompou’s piano miniatures, plus Massenet’s melodic fluidity, and you’ve got the gist of Hahn’s attractive if modestly deployed keyboard writing. The pieces range from 30 seconds to eight minutes and draw inspiration from literary and artistic images, but you don’t need to know that in order to simply enjoy them as pure music. Under Earl Wild’s seasoned but spirited fingers, each piece seemingly unfolds by itself with no trace of interpretive baggage. The full, somewhat dry engineering conveys an intimate drawing room ambience that suits this project well. Add Lord Londonderry’s fascinating annotations, and you’ll wonder where these treasures have been hiding before Wild took up their cause. I only hesitate to call this important release “the crown jewel of Earl Wild’s recorded legacy” because you never know what this eternally youthful pianist has in store for us next! 


Jed Distler (Classics Today)

Artistic: 10 Sound: 9

6 comments:

Xanturios said...

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https://nitroflare.com/view/7F2ED0D9D490CB1/RHahnLeRossignolEperduCD2.rar

BenBob said...

Thank you very much for this rarity (at least to me). Is it possible to have the links on another platform such as mega?

Xanturios said...

Here my LAST space in my MEGA account!!

CD1 -->> https://mega.nz/file/UR0lkBgR#fjuZyQZAFd8f8owPOcMgSM1SczBZIUu4byuKDMHRCiQ

CD2 -->> https://mega.nz/file/sRdVkCbb#K2MpSz0hS4uIyD0LWDteG1RR-0tfrS3YPNwiLnTVLjQ

Enjoy!

newnativemark said...

Thank you for introducing me to another composer I'd not heard of before. And I apprecate the MEGA link, especially since this is a 2=-disk selection.

Mark

BenBob said...

Thank you very much, as always.

classic said...

Thank you very much :)