Love Blows As the Wind Blows

• George Butterworth's moving cycle Love Blows as the WindBlows lends it's title to the solo debut album of Canadianbaritone Etienne Dupuis.• He also sings a rarely recorded English song cycle, FarewellEarth's Bliss, by British composer Geoffrey Bush, and DoverBeach, an early work by Samuel Barber.• This exquisite and refined program concludes with fourFrench songs by Canadian composer Rejean Coallier basedon poems by Sylvain Garneau.• Dupuis also performs the iconic Irish folk song Danny Boy,arranged for voice and string quartet.• Musicians of the Quatuor Claudel-Canimex, who playBarber's famous Adagio in it's original version for stringquartet, accompany Mr. Dupuis.• Etienne Dupuis has been receiving international acclaimsince his debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2011 in the role ofZurga in the Pearl Fishers.• Recent engagements include Marcello in La Boheme withVancouver Opera, Figaro in Barber of Seville in Avignonand again the role of Zurga with Opera National du Rhin,Strasbourg and Opera de Nantes.