Le Pays des Rêves

1. Scarlatti: Sonata in A Minor, K.54, L.241, Allegro

2. Scarlatti: Sonata in D Minor, K.9, L.413, Allegro

3. Scarlatti: Sonata in F Sharp Minor, K.25, L.481, Allegro

4. Mozart: Sonata in A Minor, K.310, Allegro Maestoso

5. Mozart: Andante Cantabile con Espressione

6. Mozart: Presto

7. Schumann: Romanze, Op.28, No.2, F Sharp Minor, Einfach

8. Brahms: Intermezzo, Op.116, No.4, E Major, Adagio

9. Brahms: Capriccio, Op. 76, No.1, F Sharp Minor, Unruhig Bewegt

10. Chopin: Mazurka, Op.17, No.4, A Minor

11. Chopin: Valse, E Minor, Vivace

12. Dinsdale: Prelude, Adagio

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Average customer rating: Disappointing

Fauré - The Complete Songs, Vol. 4 ~ Dans un parfum de roses Jean-Paul Fouchécourt , Felicity Lott , Gabriel Fauré , Graham Johnson , Stephen Varcoe , Geraldine McGreevy , and Jennifer Smith Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Gabriel Fauré: The Complete Songs, Vol. 3 Fauré: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2: Un paysage choisi Faure: Complete Songs 1 - Au bord de l'eau The Songs of Henri Duparc L'Invitation au Voyage: Mélodies from La belle époque ASIN: B000BJ7BMA Release Date: 2005-12-13

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.......2006-08-10

Faure's songs are exquisite. Unfortunately, this album does not show them in the best light. Three of the five singers - Felicity Lott, Stephen Varcoe and Jennifer Smith - are closer to sixty than fifty, and they sound it. Geraldine McGreevy and Jean-Paul Fouchecourt provide a mere nine (out of 28) tracks of compensation, but nearly 24 minutes of Jennifer Smith wavering through La chanson d'Eve is almost too much.
Buy this if you have the other three, just to complete the set.

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Le Pays des Rêves Manufacturer: Rose Garden Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Chopin | Chopin, Frédéric | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Domenico Scarlatti | Scarlatti, Domenico | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Robert Schumann | Schumann, Robert | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatinas | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Intermezzos | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Caprices | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000A1IKPQ Release Date: 2005-07-12

Tracks:

1. Scarlatti: Sonata in A Minor, K.54, L.241, Allegro
2. Scarlatti: Sonata in D Minor, K.9, L.413, Allegro
3. Scarlatti: Sonata in F Sharp Minor, K.25, L.481, Allegro
4. Mozart: Sonata in A Minor, K.310, Allegro Maestoso
5. Mozart: Andante Cantabile con Espressione
6. Mozart: Presto
7. Schumann: Romanze, Op.28, No.2, F Sharp Minor, Einfach
8. Brahms: Intermezzo, Op.116, No.4, E Major, Adagio
9. Brahms: Capriccio, Op. 76, No.1, F Sharp Minor, Unruhig Bewegt
10. Chopin: Mazurka, Op.17, No.4, A Minor
11. Chopin: Valse, E Minor, Vivace
12. Dinsdale: Prelude, Adagio

Average customer rating: Rachel Yakar, l'interpretation parfait... deliciously French performance of French melodies Music for reading Proust to.

French Songs Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Chabrier | Chabrier, Alexis Emanuel | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000632C Release Date: 1998-05-05

Tracks:

1. Clair de lune, Op.46 - Verlaine
2. Mandoline, from 5 Melodies de Venise, Op.58 - Verlaine
3. En sourdine, from 5 Melodies de Venise, Op.58 - Verlaine
4. Green, from 5 Melodies de Venise, Op.58 - Verlaine
5. Prison. Op.83 - Verlaine
6. Fleur jetee, Op.39 - Silvestre
7. Automne, Op.18 - Silvestre
8. Aurore, Op.39 - Silvestre
9. Le pays des reves, Op.39 - Silvestre
10. Le secret, Op.23 - Silvestre
11. Notre amour, Op.23 - Silvestre
12. Soir, Op.83 - Samain
13. Nocturne, Op.43 - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
14. Les presents, Op.46 - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
15. Nell, Op.18 - Leconte de Lisle
16. Les roses d'Ispahan, Op.34 - Leconte de Lisle
17. Apres un reve, Op.7 - Bussine
18. Au bord de l'eau, Op.8 - Sully Prudhomme
19. Ici-bas, Op.8 - Sully Prudhomme
20. Dans les ruines d'une abbaye, Op.2 - Hugo
21. Mai, Op.1 - Hugo
22. Le papillon et la fleur, Op.1 - Hugo

Tracks:

1. Quand je fus pris au pavillon - Charles d'Orleans
2. Je me metz en vostre mercy - Charles d'Orleans
3. Le rossignol des lilas - Dauphin
4. Si mes vers avaient des ailes - Hugo
5. Lair - Banville
6. La nuit - Banville
7. L'enamouree - Banville
8. Seule - Gautier
9. Les fontaines - Regnier
10. Le souvenir d'avoir chante - Mendes
11. L'incredule - Verlaine
12. D'une prison - Verlaine
13. Chansons grises - Verlaine: Chanson d'automne
14. Chansons grises - Verlaine: Tous deux
15. Chansons grises - Verlaine: L'allee est sans fin
16. Chansons grises - Verlaine: En sourdine
17. Chansons grises - Verlaine: L'heure exquise
18. Chansons grises - Verlaine: Paysage triste
19. Chansons grises - Verlaine: La bonne chanson
20. Sonnet - Ronsard
21. Rose d'amour - Millevoye
22. Pastorale - Regnard
23. Chanson pour Jeanne - Mendes
24. Lied - Mendes
25. L'Ile heureuse - Mikhael

Customer Reviews:

Rachel Yakar, l'interpretation parfait... deliciously French performance of French melodies.......2006-05-22

The reviewer below mentions the superiority of Felicity Lott as a singer of French melodies. This is a strange comment that probably has a great deal to do with the reviewer not speaking fluent French. Although I admire Felicity Lott's singing in her duet work with Ann Murray, I've never really taken to her as a soloist. The voice often seems cold, and possessed of some idiosyncratic habits that can sometimes marr her performances. Nevertheless, she has indeed sung some fine things.

However, that has nothing to do with the singing of Rachel Yakar. Ms Yakar is not only a specialist in French melodies (and a native speaker of French), but is also well known as a baroque specialist. This combination of specialities often produces very fine approaches to interpretation - one sees it in the singing of Sandrine Piau, Veronique Gens, Patricia Petibon, etc. And in the singing of Rachel Yakar, the effect is marvellous - a wonderful sense of intimacy and that indefinable quality one can only call "charm". I doubt that this elusive quality can be taught - I have never yet heard a singer develop it from nothing.

The first CD is especially fine - it was recorded earlier in Ms Yakar's career than the second CD, and it shows the beauty of Rachel Yakar's voice as well as her delightful and almost bitter-sweet interpretation of the melodies.

The second CD reveals some wear on the voice, unfortunately. Yet in spite of this, the interpretation is wonderful. How delightful to hear French sung idiomatically rather than with the faintest of English accents! It seems ridiculous to say this, but... French ought to be sung with a French accent. This affects everything - placement, timbre, reverberation, line, everything.

Merveilleux, Mme Yakar! This is a thought-provoking and beautiful recording worth the possessing.

Music for reading Proust to........2001-10-17

CD 1 is devoted to 22 melodies by Gabriel Faure, arguably the finest exponent of the song in French music. They reveal the breathtaking range of his art, from nostalgia to melancholy to romance to humour to despair. The settings include poems by Silvestre, Samain, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Leconte de Lisle, Bussine, Sully Prudhomme and Hugo, but it is Verlaine who inspires the most profound response, with songs like 'Clair de lune' and 'En Sourdine' magically embodying that conflation of nature, the spirit and sensuality so resonant in the poet's musical lines.

Verlaine is also a guiding ghost in the work of Reynaldo Hahn, friend of Proust, who dominates CD 2. His song-cycle 'Chansons grises' is a somewhat darker interpretation of the poet, especially in a work like 'Paysage Triste'. Hahn is relatively unknown today, but he was a great pictorial composer - 'La Nuit' is stark and spacious; 'Les Fontaines' laps with watery phrases; 'L'Air' has an atmospheric suspense. My favourite work in this whole collection, though, is his 'L'enamouree' after Banville, one of those big, sentimental, romantic melodies the French do so well. The CD finishes with three songs apiece by Bizet and Chabrier, the latter as expansive and melodic as his famous orchestral showpieces.

Singer Rachel Yakar and accompanist Claude Lavoix offer no real challenge to the maestros in this genre, Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson. Yakar lacks Lott's wit and range, and over two hours, her readings can become monotonous. Similarly, Lavoix seems sluggish beside Johnson's encyclopaedic playfulness. Nevertheless, these are songs we don't hear that often: best enjoyed in small doses.

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Debussy, Duparc, Fauré, Ravel: Mélodies (Box Set) Manufacturer: Valois ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ravel, Maurice | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Debussy | Debussy, Claude | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005R2JT Release Date: 2002-09-10

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Anthologie de l'Opérette, 1850-1950 (Box Set) Manufacturer: Forlane ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Lehár, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Offenbach | Offenbach, Jacques | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romberg, Sigmund | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Thomas | Thomas, Ambroise | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005EBJP Release Date: 2001-04-17

Track Listings:

1. Le Secret
2. Le Toreador
3. Magic Strings: Serie 20 Exitos
4. Maria de Alvear: Baum
5. Maria de Alvear: Thinking (text by Tsolagiu M.A. RuizRazo)
6. Mater, Ora Filium: Choral Music of Bax & Villette
7. Morton Gould's America
8. Mozart, Massonneau, Stamitz, Krommer: Oboe Quartets
9. Mozart: Symphony No36; Concertos for piano No15
10. Mozart: Violin Concerto, K219; Symphony No. 35 "Haffner"; Haydn: Symphony No. 92 "Oxford"

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Sonic Youth Tribute: Confuse Your Idols

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Sensational Country Hits

Rancherisimo, Vol. 2

Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other, 1986-2002

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Sacred Songs, Vol. 2: Gregorian Chants [Import]

Henry Cowell: Fiddler's Jig; Air & Scherzo; Concerto Grosso; Hymn & Fuguing Tune No. 10

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