Details

Subject(s)

• Songs (Medium voice) with piano [Browse]
• Songs, French [Browse]
• Song cycles—Excerpts [Browse]

Production company

• Idéale Audience International [Browse]

Film director

• Béziat, Philippe [Browse]

Singer

• Graham, Susan, 1960- [Browse]

Instrumentalist

• Martineau, Malcolm [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Internet videos [Browse]

Contains

• Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Chanson d'avril. [Browse]
• Franck, César, 1822-1890. Nocturne, singer, piano [Browse]
• Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921. Danse macabre (Song) [Browse]
• Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894. Mélodies (1890). Cigales. [Browse]
• Bachelet, Alfred, 1864-1944. Chère nuit. [Browse]
• Duparc, Henri, 1848-1933. Au pays où se fait la guerre. [Browse]
• Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Histoires naturelles. Paon. [Browse]
• Caplet, André, 1878-1925. Fables de Jean de La Fontaine. Corbeau et le renard. [Browse]
• Roussel, Albert, 1869-1937. Poèmes chinois, op. 35. Réponse d'une épouse sage. [Browse]
• Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Fêtes galantes, 2. recueil. Colloque sentimental. [Browse]
• Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924. Vocalise-étude. [Browse]
• Honegger, Arthur, 1892-1955. Chansons des sirènes. [Browse]
• Rosenthal, Manuel, 1904-2003. Chansons du Monsieur Bleu. Souris d'Angleterre. [Browse]
• Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Dame de Monte-Carlo. [Browse]
• Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947. À Chloris. [Browse]

Summary note

Together with Malcom Martineau on the piano, the mezzo-soprano Susan Graham features a fascinating compilation of well-known French composers. Alfred Bachelet, Henri Duparc, Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns, André Caplet, Albert Roussel, Arthur Honegger... These are names seldom heard all together in recital programs. Generally, famous opera arias or German Lieder are given a preference over melodies. However, the pieces presented here highlight a typically French musical tradition which is full of masterpieces thanks to the great literary value of the poems set to music, the vocal skills required, and the harmonies, very specific of the 20th century. Susan Graham performs those French compositions, including the joyfully morbid Danse macabre foreshadowing the 1920's and the music by The Six, which the French heroin Bérénice in Aragon's novel judges "comical."

Time and place of event

Recorded 2009 Verbier Church, Verbier, Switzerland.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano ; Malcolm Martineau, piano.

Language note

Sung in French.

Contents

• Chanson d'avril / Georges Bizet
• Nocturne / César Franck
• Danse macabre / Camille Saint-Saëns
• Les cigales / Emmanuel Chabrier
• Chère nuit / Alfred Bachelet
• Au pays où se fait la guerre / Henri Duparc
• Le paon / Maurice Ravel
• Le corbeau et le renard / André Caplet
• Réponse d'une épouse sage / Albert Roussel
• Colloque sentimental / Claude Debussy
• Vocalise-étude / Gabriel Fauré
• Chansons des sirènes / Arthur Honegger
• La souris d'Angleterre / Manuel Rosenthal
• La dame de Monte-Carlo / Francis Poulenc
• A Chloris / Reynaldo Hahn.

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OCLC

956370554

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