| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 7 sec.)) : sound, color |
| Playing Time |
010007 |
| Description |
digital |
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video file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Performer |
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano ; Malcolm Martineau, piano. |
| Event |
Recorded 2009 Verbier Church, Verbier, Switzerland. |
| Summary |
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." |
| 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. |
| Language |
Sung in French. |
| Subject |
Songs (Medium voice) with piano.
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Songs (Medium voice) with piano. |
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Songs, French.
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Songs, French. |
| Genre/Form |
Songs, French.
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| Subject |
Song cycles -- Excerpts.
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Song cycles -- Excerpts. |
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Internet videos.
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Internet videos.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Excerpts.
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Excerpts.
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| Added Author |
Béziat, Philippe, film director.
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Graham, Susan, 1960- singer.
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Martineau, Malcolm, instrumentalist.
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Container of (work): Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875.
Chanson d'avril.
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Container of (work): Franck, César, 1822-1890.
Nocturne, singer, piano.
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Container of (work): Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921.
Danse macabre (Song)
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Container of (work): Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894.
Mélodies (1890). Cigales.
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Container of (work): Bachelet, Alfred, 1864-1944.
Chère nuit.
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Container of (work): Duparc, Henri, 1848-1933.
Au pays où se fait la guerre.
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Container of (work): Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937.
Histoires naturelles. Paon.
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Container of (work): Caplet, André, 1878-1925.
Fables de Jean de La Fontaine. Corbeau et le renard.
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Container of (work): Roussel, Albert, 1869-1937.
Poèmes chinois, op. 35. Réponse d'une épouse sage.
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Container of (work): Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.
Fêtes galantes, 2. recueil. Colloque sentimental.
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Container of (work): Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924.
Vocalise-étude.
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Container of (work): Honegger, Arthur, 1892-1955.
Chansons des sirènes.
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Container of (work): Rosenthal, Manuel, 1904-2003.
Chansons du Monsieur Bleu. Souris d'Angleterre.
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Container of (work): Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963.
Dame de Monte-Carlo.
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Container of (work): Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947.
À Chloris.
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Idéale Audience International, production company.
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