Duparc: Chansons

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
In a relatively short career as a composer, curtailed by illness, Henri Duparc left a small group of songs that have since proved a major part of French song repertoire. The songs for tenor and piano recorded on this disc are notable for their poetic atmosphere, emotional intensity and exquisite technique. Highlights include L’invitation au voyage, set to words by Baudelaire and perhaps Duparc’s best known song, the deeply felt Elégie, the dramatic Le manoir de Rosemonde, with its haunted search, and the harmonically adventurous Chanson triste.

Tracks:

'Chacun Le Sait'
'Il Faut Partir'
'Et Mon Coeur La Changer
La Fille Du Regiment: 'Salut A La France'
Sadks: 'Song Of India'
Lakme: 'Pourquoi Dans Les Grands Hois?'
Dinorah: 'Ombre Legere' (Shadow Song)
'Regnava Nel Silenzio...Quando Rapita In Estasi'
Lucia Di Lammermoor: 'Il Dolce Suono Mi Colpi...Ardon Gl'Incensi'
Rigoletto: 'Caro Nome'
Lakme: 'Ou Va La Jeunne Hindoue' (Bell Song)
Mireille: 'O Legere Hirondelle'
Romeo Et Juliette: 'Je Veux Vivre'
La Traviata: 'Ah, Fors'e Lui...Sempre Libera'

Tracks:

Le Coq D'Er: 'Hymne Au Soleil'
Les Contes D'Hoffmann: 'Les Oiseaux Dans La Charmille'
Zemire Et Azor: 'La Fauvette'
Mignon: 'Jesuis Titania'
I Puritani: 'Son Vergin Vezzosa'
Linda Di Chamounix: 'O Luce Di Quest' Anima'
La Sonnambula: 'Ah, Non Credea..Ah, Non Giunge'
Porgy And Bess: 'Summertime'
'The Russian Nightingale'
'Fledermaus Fantasy'
'Les Roses D'Ispahan'
'L'invitation Au Voyage'
Chansons De Rensard: 'A Une Fountaine'
Chansons De Rensard: 'A Cupidon'
Chansons De Rensard: 'Tais-Toi, Babillarde'
Chansons De Rensard: 'Dieu Vous Gard'
'Clair De Lune' - Frank La Forge
'Fantoches' - Frank La Forge
'Plaisir D' Amour'
'Home, Sweet Home'

Amazon.com

In many respects, Lily Pons was the Galli-Curci of her generation: a winning combination of good looks, charm, an appealing and non-confrontational timbre, and easy facility in the stratosphere. Those who learned the "Mad Scene" from Lucia di Lammermoor or the "Bell Song" from Lakmé via the original 78s back in the 40s will be bowled over by the vivid detail and lack of background noise in these stunning Sony restorations. First-time listeners will marvel at her effortless passagework and high notes (she often transposed her arias up on records); but may be put off by a slight thinness in the middle register (not evident in her Odeon recordings from the late 20s), sketchy intonation at times, and expedient aspirating in downward scales. Although these selections encompass a gamut of stylistic and emotional contrasts, you'd scarcely know it from the singer's pleasant but characterless interpretations, which tickle the ear without quite racking the brain. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews:

Highly recommended.......2007-07-09

This could have been recorded yesterday, the sound quality is excellent and without blemish. By far the best recordings of Pons I have, and I would like to have others. She reminds me of Jo, separation of notes, clear, real trills, a range to rival Sumac, flexibility to perfection, and always that today neglected once standard fare of the coloratura, the requisite leap to the top note at the end of an aria. And a pretty sound. I love this album.

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The Voice of France

Manufacturer: Decca
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ASIN: B000075A80
Release Date: 2002-11-12

Tracks:

La Marseillaise (French National Anthem) - Placido Domingo
Dome Epais Le Jasmin (Flower Duet) - Joan Sutherland
L'amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle - Regina Resnik
C'est Toi...Au Fond Du Temple Saint - Gregory Cross
Belle Noit, O Nuit D'amour - Joan Sutherland
Apres Un Reve - Renee Fleming
L'invitation Au Voyage - Gerard Souzay
Cantique De Jean Racine, Op.11 - Choir Of St. John's College, Cambridge
Rachel, Quand De Seigneur - Leopold Simoneau
O Vin, Dissipe La Tristesse - Sherrill Milnes
Je Suis Titania - Beverly Sills
Ah, Ou Va La Jeune Indoue - Joan Sutherland
Les Filles De Cadix - Angela Gheorghiu
Mon Coeur S'ouvre A Ta Voix - Marilyn Home
Alerte! Alerte!...Anges Pur - Nuccia Focile

Tracks:

Frere Jacques - Rita Streich
Air De Letter: Mon Chet Amant - Regine Crespin
Marthe Dieu Soit Loue...Deposons Les Armes (Soldiers' Chorus) - Robert Massard
In Paradisum - L Union Chorale de La Tour De Peliz
Villanelle - Regine Crespin
Je Veux Vivre - Joan Sutherland
Chanson A Boire - Gerard Souzay
L'Enigme Eternelle - Suzanne Danco
Sur Le Pont D'Avignon - Hilde Guden
Phidyle - Gerard Souzay
Les Gars Qui Vont A La Fete - Gerard Souzay
Notre Amour - Sylvia McNair
Beau Soir - Elly Ameling
C'est L'extase Langoureuse - Sylvia McNair
Puisqu'on Ne Peut Flechir Ces jalouses Gardiennes-Vainement Ma Bien-Aimee - Alfredo Kraus
Il Est Doux, Il Est Bon - Angela Gheorghiu
Hotel - Gilles Cachemaille
Petite Dinde, Ah! Quel Outrage - Maggie Teyte
Bailero - Kiri Te Kanawa
Brezairola - Kiri Te Kanawa
Malurous Qu'o Uno Fenno - Kiri Te Kanawa

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French Songs Transcribed for Cello; Result is Magical

Après un rêve

Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
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ASIN: B00002DETC
Release Date: 2000-01-11

Tracks:

Apres un reve
Tristesse
Au bord de l'eau
Les Berceaux
Adieux de l'hse arabe
Deux Mdies haes: 1. Kaddish
Deux Mdies haes: 2. L'Enigme eternelle
Deux Mdies haes: Las, vers l'ise
Deux Mdies haes: Vocalise-etude en forme de habanera
Elegie
Beau Soir
Serenade
Cantique 'use
Le Temps des lilas
L'Heure exquise
Soupir
Chanson triste
Extase
Violon
C'est ainsi que tu es, Paganini
La Reine de coeur
'C'
Les chemins de l'amour

Customer Reviews:

French Songs Transcribed for Cello; Result is Magical.......2000-08-14

Occasionally a CD appears that is pure magic. This is one of them. Mischa Maisky and Daria Hovora form an ideal team: each performs on an exquisite instrument, and the recording engineer has captured everything, balance and all. In my opinion, transcribing French songs from voice to cello is a "natural"--the cello, so much like the human voice, captures the intimacy and atmosphere beautifully.

Both performers are natural story tellers, and Maisky, with an almost uniquely seductive vibrato, unhurriedly describes the French romantic soul. If a phrase is to be caressed, he caresses it. It if needs to soar, he gives it exactly what it needs. And the pianissimos! His tone sometimes just seems to come out of nowhere, and the endings often promise never to end.

Tracks:

Sheherazade: Asie
Sheherazade: La Flute enchantee
Sheherazade: L'Indifferent
Cinq Melodies populaires grecques: Le Reveil de la mariee
Cinq Melodies populaires grecques: La-bas vers l'eglise
Cinq Melodies populaires grecques: Quel galant m'est comparable
Cinq Melodies populaires grecques: Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
Cinq Melodies populaires grecques: Tout gai!
Duex Melodies hebraiques: Kaddisch
Duex Melodies hebraiques: L'Enigme eternelle
L'Invitaiton au voyage
Phidyle
L'Enfant Prodigue: Recit. & Air de Lia: L'annee en vain chasse l'annee
Poeme de l'amour et de la mer: La Fleur des eaux
Poeme de l'amour et de la mer: Interlude
Poeme de l'amour et de la mer: La Mort de l'amour

Tracks:

Cinco Canciones Negras: Cuba dentro de un piano
Cinco Canciones Negras: Punto de habanera
Cinco Canciones Negras: Chevere
Cinco Canciones Negras: Cancion de cuna para dormir a un negrito
Cinco Canciones Negras: Canto negro
Coleccion de canciones amatorias: Llorad corazon
Coleccion de canciones amatorias: Iban al pinar
Cuatro madrigales amatorios: Con que la lavare?
Cuatro madrigales amatorios: Vos me matasteis
Cuatro madrigales amatorios: De donde venis, amore?
Cuatro madrigales amatorios: De los alamos vengo, madre
Cinco canciones playeras espanolas: Rutas
Cinco canciones playeras espanolas: Pregon
Cinco canciones playeras espanolas: Las 12
Cinco canciones playeras espanolas: El pescador sin dinero
Cinco canciones playeras espanolas: Coplilla
Quatre cancons: Canco de grumet
Quatre cancons: Cancon incerta
Quatre cancons: Maig
Quatre cancons: Anacreontica
La Dama d'Arago
El can dels ocells
Canco de Sega
El combat del somni: Damunt de tu nomes les flors
El combat del somni: Aquesta nit un mateix vent
El combat del somni: Jo et presentia com la mar
Triptic de Mossen Cinto: L'Harpa Sagrada
Triptic de Mossen Cinto: Lo violi de Sant Francesh
Triptic de Mossen Cinto: Sant Fransech i la cigala

Tracks:

Chansons de Bilitis: La Flute de Pan
Chansons de Bilitis: La Chevelure
Chansons de Bilitis: Le Tombeau des Naiades
Fetes galantes: En sourdine
Fetes galantes: Fantoches
Fetes galantes: Clair de lune
Noel de enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons
Chants populaires: Chanson espagnole
Chants populaires: Chanson francaise
Chants populaires: Chanson italienne
Chants populaires: Chanson Herbraique
Trois jours de vendange
Le Rossignol des lilas
Tristesse, Op. 6, No. 2
Au bord de l'eau, Op. 8, No. 1
Les Roses d'Ispahan, Op. 39, No. 4
Troujours (No. 2 de Trois Poemes d'un jour, Op. 21)
Siete Canciones populares espanolas: El pano murano
Siete Canciones populares espanolas: Sequidilla murciana
Siete Canciones populares espanolas: Asturiana
Siete Canciones populares espanolas: Jota
Siete Canciones populares espanolas: Nana
Siete Canciones populares espanolas: Cancion
Siete Canciones populares espanolas: Polo
Doce canciones gallegas: As florinas dos toxos
Triptico, Op. 45: Farruca
Villancicos: Pastorcito santo
Psyche
Soneto a Cordoba

Tracks:

Proserpina: E dove t'aggiri
Le violette
Joshua: Oh! had I Jubal's lyre
Der Tod und das Madchen, D. 531
Die schone Mullerin, D. 795: No. 2: Wohin?
D. 547: An die Musik
Op. 59, No. 8: Dein blaues Auge
Op. 84, No. 4: Vergebliches Standchen
Op. 27, No. 1: Chanson d'amour
Op. 46, No. 2: Clair de lune
Let Us Wander
Lost Is My Quiet
Schlaf in deiner engen Kammer
Ah! lamenta, oh bella Irene
Irish Songs: Oh! Would I Were But That Sweet Linnet
Irish Songs: He Promised Me At Parting
Irish Songs: They Bid Me Slight My Dermot Dear
Welsh songs: The Dream
Mignon und der Harfner, D. 877: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Les Fleurs des landes: Le Trebuchet
Moglichkeit
Der Apfel
Schottische Ballade
Pastorale
Pleurs d'or
Sapphische Ode
La Partenza

Amazon.com

The word "fabulous" seems vulgar when applied to the Spanish diva whose delicately shaded voice encompassed music from the middle ages to the present. This four-disc compilation emphasizes her song repertoire, to which she brought warmth, intelligence, linguistic integrity and irresistible sincerity. Her dignity makes listeners want to come to her, and she rewards them with an intimate, personal experience, especially in this small-scale repertoire by Ravel, Debussy, Duparc, Fauré, lots of Spanish composers and German masters such as Schubert and Brahms. --David Patrick Stearns

Customer Reviews:

Awesome musicality.......2006-07-26

This 4-CD set is a tribute to the concert career of the great Victoria de Los Angeles. The first 3 CDs show her totally at home in the art song of France and of her native Spain. In the French art songs, her silvery, creamy tone, her legendary legato and her perfect French diction make for wonderful and unforgettable performances. These include a sensual Scheherazade, magnificient singing in the Duparc songs and a phenomenal Poeme de L'amour et de la mer of Chausson (try to keep your eyes dry by the end of La mort de l'amour). In the Chausson, while de Los Angeles does not opt for the intensely Wagnerian approach, her sensitive singing more than does justice to the poetry and the feelings of the character. The Spanish songs showcase de Los Angeles at her most natural, flamboyant and attractive singing. The tunes are catchy, full of bouncy rhythms and De Los Angeles's fabulous voice never ceases to amaze. The 4th CD shows the wonderful chemistry between de Los angeles and the great Gerald Moore. While she does not erase memories of Fischer-Dieskau and Schwarzkopf in the Schubert selections, the Brahms songs are excellent and her Faure songs here are earth shaking in their elegance and refinement. The Italian and the famous Handel aria helps to prove De Los Angeles's reputation as an excellent bel canto singer. Her duets with Fischer-Dieskau are absolutely memorable and gorgeous.
The set comes with booklet including full words plus translations, helpful notes on De Los Angeles's concert career and a dozen of beautiful and rare black and white photos. Victoria de Los Angeles's concert career was as prolific as her legendary operatic performances and continued well after her retirement from the operatic stage. This introspective and almost encycopledic release is a real treat and is absolutely recommended. I totally agree with the editor's review who states that the word "fabulous" fails in every respect to fully capture the artistry of the Spanish soprano. Victoria de Los Angeles is definitely one of the most wonderful lyric sopranos of the 20th century and is one of the most heavenly artists to have ever graced the concert scene. A must-have for any collection.

Fabulous? Yes!!!.......1999-09-13

The album is a marvelous sampling of this great singer's artistry. Her performances of the French and Spanish composers are something special. The De Falla "Seven Popular Folksongs" are powerful, passionate; the last song, "Jota," raised the hair on the back of my neck.

I was delighted to see Faure's "Claire de lune" on the album, and equally delighted with De Los Angeles' elegant rendition of this work. The only recording of the song I've liked better is from an LP featuring Frederika Von Stade.

Tracks:

Ser
Soupir
L'Invatation Au Voyage
L'Ile Heureuse
Sept Melodies, Op.2: IV Le Colibri
Quatre Poemes, Op.3: III Le Jardin Mouille
Deux Melodies, Op.50: I Coeur En Peril
Funf Lieder & Gesange, Op.127: II Dein Angesicht
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Im Wunderschonen Monat Mai
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Aus Meinen Tranen Spriessen
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Die Rose, Die Lilie, Die Taube, Die Sonne
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Wenn Ich In Deine Augen Seh
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Ich Will Meine Seele Tauchen
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Im Rhein, Im Heiligen Strome
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Ich Grolle Nicht
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Und Wussten's Die Blumen, Die Kleinen
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Das Ist Ein Floten Un Geigen
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Hor Ich Das Liedchen Klingen
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Ein Jungling Liebt Ein Madchen
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Am Leuchtenden Sommermorgen
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Ich Hab Im Traum Geweinet
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Allnachtlich Im Traume
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Aus Alten Marchen
Dichterliebe, Op.48: Die Alten Bosen Lieder
Freudvoll Und Liedvoll
Es Muss Ein Wunderbares Sein
Nimm Einen Strahl Der Sonne
Quatre Poemes De Leo Latil: IV. La Tourterlle
A Mon Fils
La Lyre Et Les Amours: I Le Bracelet
La Lyre Et Les Amours: II L'Echo
La Lyre Et Les Amours: III La Belle Esclave Morte
La Lyre Et Les Amours: IV Les Baisers De Dorinde

Tracks:

Apres Un Reve, Op.7, No.1
Le Secret, Op.23, No.3
Aurore, Op.39, No.1
Prison, Op.83, No.1
Soir, Op.83, No.1
Jardin Nocturne, Op.113, No.3
Trois Chansons De France: I Le Temps A Laisse Son Manteau
Trois Chansons De France: II La Grotte
Trois Chansons De France: III Pour Ce Que Plaisance Est Morte
Fetes Galantes (Set II): III Colloque Sentimental
Trois Ballades De Francois Villon: I Ballade De Villon A S'Amie
Trois Ballades De Francois Villon: II Ballade Que Villon Feit A La Requeste De Sa Mere
Trois Ballades De Francois Villon: III Ballade Des Femmes De Paris
Trois Melodies: I La Statue De Bronze
Trois Melodies: II Le Chapelier
Don Quichotte A Dulcinee: I Chanson Romanesque
Don Quichotte A Dulcinee: II Chanson Epique
Don Quichotte A Dulcinee: III Chanson A Boire
Chansons Gillardes: IV Invocation Aux Parques
Chansons Gillardes: VII La Belle Jeunesse
Metamorphoses: I Reine Des Mouettes
Metamorphoses: II C'Est Ainsi Que Tu Es
Metamorphoses: III Paganini
Le Bestiaire Ou Cortege D'Orphee: I Le Dromadaire
Le Bestiaire Ou Cortege D'Orphee: II La Chevre Du Thibet
Le Bestiaire Ou Cortege D'Orphee: III La Sauterelle
Le Bestiaire Ou Cortege D'Orphee: IV Le Dauphin
Le Bestiaire Ou Cortege D'Orphee: V L'Ecrevisse
Le Bestiaire Ou Cortege D'Orphee: VI La Carpe
Deux Melodies De Guillaume Apollinaire: I Montparnasse
Deux Poemes De Guillaume Apollinaire: I Dans Le Jardin D'Anna
Deux Poemes De Louis Aragon: I C
Deux Poemes De Louis Aragon: II Fetes Galantes
Tel Jour Telle Nuit: I Bonne Journee
Tel Jour Telle Nuit: II Une Ruine Cuquille Vide
Tel Jour Telle Nuit: III Le Front Comme Un Drapeau Perdu
Tel Jour Telle Nuit: IV Une Roulotte Couvere En Tuiles
Tel Jour Telle Nuit: V A Toutes Brides
Tel Jour Telle Nuit: VI Une Herbe Paurve
Tel Jour Telle Nuit: VII Je N'Ai Envie Que De T'Aimer
Tel Jour Telle Nuit: VIII Figure De Force Brulante Et Farouche
Tel Jour Telle Nuit: IX Nous Avons Fait La Nuit

Tracks:

Ce Que Je Suis Sans Toi
Au Rossingnol
Six Melodies: VI. Venise
Priere
Chanson De Printemps
L'Absent
Viens, Les Gazons Sont Verts
Envoi Des Fleurs
Mignon
Le Travail Du Peintre: 1. Pablo Picasso
Le Travail Du Peintre: 2. Marc Chagall
Le Travail Du Peintre: 3. Georges Braque
Le Travail Du Peintre: 4. Juan Gris
Le Travail Du Peintre: 5. Paul Klee
Le Travail Du Peintre: 6. Joan Miro
Le Travail Du Peintre: 7. Jacques Villon
Bernac Interviewd By Graham Johnson
L'Historie De Babar, Le Petit Elephant

Customer Reviews:

One of the great French recordings of the century.......1999-02-28

Knowing many of these recordings from the vinyl issue, I rejoice in being able to get them re-mastered. Bernac was not only Poulenc's great interpreter, but a definitive interpreter of other French art songs (and Souzay's teacher).

Gérard Souzay Sings Ravel, Debussy, Chausson, Duparc

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A great singer is fading away

Gérard Souzay Sings Ravel, Debussy, Chausson, Duparc

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ASIN: B0000AH3DE
Release Date: 2003-11-11

Tracks:

I. Chanson Romanesque - Gerard Souzay
II. Chanson Epique - Gerard Souzay
III. Chanson A Boire - Gerard Souzay
II. Ballade Que Villon Feit A La Requeste De Sa Mere Pour Prier Notre-Dame - Gerard Souzay
II. La Grotte - Gerard Souzay
Mandoline - Gerard Souzay
Nanny, Op.2 No.1
Le Charme, Op.2 No.2
Serenade Italienne, Op.2 No.5
Le Colibri, Op.2 No.7
Cantique A L'epouse, Op.36 No.1
Les Papillons, Op.2 No.3
Le Temps De Lilas
La Vie Anterieure
Le Manoir De Rosemonde
elegie
Phidyle
Soupir
Chanson Triste
Lamento
La Vague Et La Cloche
Serenade Florentine
Testament
Extase
L'Invitation Au Voyage

Customer Reviews:

A great singer is fading away.......2005-12-08

At about the same time that recording companies were profitably supporting a "rivalry" between Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, they were stirring up a similarly profitable competition between Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gérard Souzay. Imagine it, once there was a time in which money could be made from singing lieder!

Souzay, was born as Gérard Marcel Tisserand in 1918. He attended the Paris Conservatoire from 1940 to1945. In 1944, while still a student, he made his professional debut and his first two recordings. He did a limited amount of operatic work, even essaying the role of Don Giovanni, but his true field of operation was song. His opera career is represented on CD by memorable performances of "Manon" (with Beverly Sills) and "Pèlleas et Mèlisaunde," but his recorded songs from 1944 to 1987 number about 750 in at least fifteen different languages. He died in 2004.

I first became aware of Souzay more than forty years ago when a singer-friend suggested I try him when I got weary of Fischer-Dieskau. At the time I wondered how anyone could tire of the great German baritone. Not very long after that, of course, I found that I could bear the sound of the excellent but ubiquitous and damnably too-familiar sound of DF-D no longer. Gérard Souzay was an instant curative. To this day, it is Souzay's voice I hear in my mind when I think of the lieder of Schumann and Schubert. In French art song, Souzay was simply without rival.

I find to my dismay that the memory of this great French performer is fading. Amazon still lists 45 of his titles on CD, but only 22 of them are still in print (or whatever the proper term should be for a recording.) As I write this, only 13 of the 45 titles have attracted Amazon reviews and, worse, only seven of his solo CDs have been reviewed. This is more than dismaying; it's downright ominous. The memory of a wonderful talent seems well on its way to oblivion, to the sad diminishment of us all.

In January 2000, an unnamed Amazon reviewer wrote this of Souzay, "In these performances he surpassed Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in a number of respects -- sheer style, beauty and range of tone, naturalness, depth of expression". Yeah.

Five stars!

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Excellent CD by two very fine musicians

Chansons d'Amour

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Adelaide Op.46
An Die Ferne Geliebte Op.98
Ich Liebe Dich WoO.123
Die Forelle D.550
Standchen D.957
An Die Musik D.547
Wiegenlied Op.49 No.4
Traum Durch Die Dammerung Op.29
Chanson Triste
Phidyle
Chanson D'Amour Op.27 No.1
Apres Un Reve Op.7 No.1
Gia Il Sole Dal Gange
The Salley Gardens
The Plough Boy
O Waly, Waly
Come You Not From Newcastle?
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Danny Boy

Customer Reviews:

Excellent CD by two very fine musicians.......1999-11-01

I found this CD by attending a Community Concert by Saarinen and DuBois. It was one of those evenings where the synergy between the performers and the audience was electric. The CD is a very good representation of what I heard in the concert. It was taped in 1998 in Toronto, where the artists are based. The CD contains some beautiful and unusual songs which I had never heard, as well as many favorites. Gloria Saarinen studied with Alfred Cortot and Guido Agosti, and DuBois studied with Peter Pears, and their musicality reflects it. This is a class act.

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Duparc: Chansons

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Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

Serenade
Chanson Triste
Le Manoir De Rosemonde
L'Invitation Au Voyage
Phidyle
Testament
Serenade Florentine
Soupir
La Vague Et La Cloche
Extase
La Vie Anterieure
Le Galop
Lamento
Elegie
La Fuite

Album Description

In a relatively short career as a composer, curtailed by illness, Henri Duparc left a small group of songs that have since proved a major part of French song repertoire. The songs for tenor and piano recorded on this disc are notable for their poetic atmosphere, emotional intensity and exquisite technique. Highlights include L'invitation au voyage, set to words by Baudelaire and perhaps Duparc's best known song, the deeply felt Elégie, the dramatic Le manoir de Rosemonde, with its haunted search, and the harmonically adventurous Chanson triste.

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Superb singing and interpretation. Wonderful accompaniment

French & Spanish Songs

Manufacturer: Testament
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Trois Chansons De Bilitis: I. La Flute De Pan
Trois Chansons De Bilitis: II. La Chevalure
Trois Chansons De Bilitis: III. Le Tombeau Des Naiades
Mandoline
Cinq Poemes De Baudelaire: III. Le Jet D'eau
Trois Ballades De Francois Villon: III. Ballade Des Femmes De Paris
Fetes Galantes (1st. Series): I. En Sourdine
Fetes Galantes (1st. Series): II. Fantoches
Fetes Galantes (1st. Series): III. Clair De Lune
Chere Nuit
Ici-Bas!, Op.8 No.3
Apres Un Reve, Op.7 No.1
Les Temps Des Lilas
La Vie Anterieure
Phidyle
Oure Ton Coeur
El Combat Del Somni: I. Damunt De Tu Nomes Les Flores
El Combat Del Somni: II. Aquesta Nit Un Mateix Vent
El Combat Del Somni: III. Jo Et Pressentia Com La Mar
Romance De Solita
Cinco Canciones Negras: IV. Cancion De Cuna Para Dormir A Un Negrito
Cinco Canciones Negras: V. Canto Negro
Farruca
La Giralda
El Vito

Customer Reviews:

Superb singing and interpretation. Wonderful accompaniment.......1998-10-29

Nan Merriman not only has the voice but the appropriate style in these French and Spanish songs. No wonder she was a favorite of Toscannini. The playing of accompanist Gerald Moore is refined and displays why he was so great at his art. Testament has done a great job with the audio. Any lover of fine singing and the lied should have this CD in their collection.

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Sensitive accounts of intimate French songs

Voyage à Paris: Chansons française

Manufacturer: Berlin Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Sensitive accounts of intimate French songs.......2007-04-25

In an age of complete editions and other forms of elaborate programming, it is a delight to sit back and enjoy this somewhat random selection of beautiful songs, mostly familiar with a couple of rareties thrown in.

Dawson's voice is big and mature-sounding, with a burnished tone and exceptional support. What's striking is how she uses these gifts: More than linguistic nuance, it is her vocal strengths that lend these performances their interpretive finesse. Her dynamic control, her supple instrument and plush sound give her great expressive power. I marvel at how much a sustained pianissimo, instead of a feeble drop-off, can add to a song's effectiveness. It's a subtle distinction, but she relies more on technique (portamento, rubato) than on getting inside the song texts.

I don't mean to say that she is interpretively weak, or indulges in producing a merely beautiful sound. Indeed, these are readings of sensitivity and insight. But it's not quite how the French approach the mélodie. She is more in line with Jessye Norman and Susan Graham than Ameling or Gens. While her French diction isn't wholly idiomatic, it is always astute and she masters even the peculiar prosody of Fauré's "Mandoline."

It is somewhat surprising that half the songs on the disk are by Poulenc, when Chausson and Duparc would be more natural fits. Nonetheless, Dawson is quite at home with all six composers in the program: the three already mentioned plus Faure, Chabrier, and Hahn. On a few songs, she and her accompanist tend toward slowish tempi, but her secure voice and the duo's rhythmic subtlety make it work. Hahn's "A Chloris" would be impossibly lugubrious without Dawson's admirable breath control to expand the phrasing. With Poulenc's "Nous voulons une petite soeur" she opts to tell a story rather than deliver a patter-song, and the results are just as delightful as other performances that are more overtly comic. On the hand, Poulenc's "Fancy" is inexplicably wan. That cavil aside, most of the songs are splendidly done, from the rapture of "Après un rêve" and the heartbreak of "Le temps des lilas" to the schmaltz of "Les chemins de l'amour" and the seductiveness of "Violon."

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