LOVE BLOWS AS THE WIND BLOWS Étienne Dupuis Quatuor Claudel-Canimex ACD2 2701 • George Butterworth's moving cycle Love Blows as the Wind Blows lends its title to the solo debut album of Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis.   He also sings a rarely recorded English song cycle, Farewell Earth's Bliss, by British composer Geoffrey Bush, and Dover Beach, an early work by Samuel Barber. • This exquisite and refined selection includes four French songs by Canadian composer Réjean Coallier based on poems by Sylvain Garneau.   Dupuis also performs the iconic Irish folk song Danny Boy, arranged for voice and string quartet.   Dupuis is accompanied by the musicians of the Quatuor Claudel-Canimex, who play Barber's famous Adagio in its original version for string quartet. • Étienne Dupuis has been receiving international acclaim since his debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2011 in the role of Zurga in the Pearl Fishers.   He was invited back to Berlin to perform in Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro), and La Traviata (Germont).   Recent engagements include Marcello in La Bohème with Vancouver Opera, Joe de Rocher in Dead Man Walking with Opéra de Montréal, André Thorel from Massenet's Thérèse and La Vivandière by Benjamin Godard with Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, Figaro in Barber of Seville in Avignon and the role of Zurga with Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg and Opera de Nantes. George Butterworth (1885-1916) Love Blows as the Wind Blows   1. I. In the year that's come and gone, love, his flying feather     3:09   2. II. Life in her Creaking Shoes     2:36   3. III. Fill a glass with golden wine     2:36   4. IV. On the way to Kew     3:53 Samuel Barber (1910-1981)   5. Dover Beach op 3     7:42 Geoffrey Bush (b.1920) Farewell, Earth's Bliss   6. I. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright    3:36   7. II. O, the month of May, the merry month of May     2:10   8. III. Do not fear to put thy feet     2:34   9. IV. Fear no more the heat o' the sun     3:17 10. V. When May is in his prime     1:54 11. VI. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree     4:33 Samuel Barber 12. Adagio pour cordes     6:52 Trad. 13. Danny Boy [arr.: Daniel Desaulniers]     3:34 Réjean Coallier (b. 1953) Cycle of songs set to poems by Sylvain Garneau 14. I. Dans chaque village     3:13 15. II. La rivière     2:58 16. III. Élégie     2:58 17. IV. Décembre     2:56 ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879