| Description |
1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
010840 |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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1.4 m/s |
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stereo |
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digital recording |
| Note |
"This recording is a treasury of the rare and exotic, a collection of quintessentially French, French songs, many of them forgotten and unperformed for several generations."--Container. |
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The 1st work originally for 4 sopranos and chamber orchestra; arr. for voice and piano. |
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Words by Béatrice Lesur, Christian Lesur, Rosemonde Gérard, Edmond Rostand, Pierre Dedat du Monlaur, René Chalupt, Louis Aragon, Edouard Bourdet, Mima Godebska, Léon-Paul Fargue; and Victor Cousin's French translation of the Platonic dialogues (Symposium, Phaedrus, and Phaedo). |
| Performer |
Hugues Cuénod, tenor; Geoffrey Parsons, piano. |
| Note |
Compact disc. |
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Program notes in English, and words with English translations (32 p. : port.) laid in container. |
| Contents |
Deux lettres d'enfants. Lettre de Béatrice ; Lettre de Christian / Jacques de Menasce (2:29) -- Les cigales ; Villanelles des petits canards ; Pastorales [i.e. Pastorale] des cochons roses ; Ballade des gros dindons / Emmanuel Chabrier (13:00) -- Saluste Du Bartas. Le château du Bartas ; Tout le long de la Baïse ; Le départ ; La promenade ; Nérac en fête ; Duo / Arthur Honegger (8:00) -- Le bachelier de Salamanque / Albert Roussel (1:40) -- "C" (2:43) ; À sa guitare (2:47) / Francis Poulenc -- Trois mélodies. Daphénéo ; La statue de bronze ; Le chapelier / Erik Satie (5:00) -- Ludions. Air du rat ; Spleen ; La grenouille américaine ; Air du poète ; Chanson du chat / Erik Satie (4:00) -- Socrate : drame symphonique avec voix. Portrait de Socrate ; Bords de l'Ilissus ; Mort de Socrate / Erik Satie (30:00). |
| Language |
Sung in French. |
| Subject |
Songs (High voice) with piano.
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Songs (High voice) with piano. |
| Genre/Form |
Song cycles.
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Song cycles.
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| Subject |
Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590 -- Songs and music.
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Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590. |
| Genre/Form |
Songs and music.
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| Subject |
Socrates, Scholasticus, approximately 379-approximately 440 -- Songs and music.
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Socrates, Scholasticus, approximately 379-approximately 440. |
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Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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Songs.
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Songs.
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Music.
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Music.
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| Added Author |
Cuénod, Hugues, performer.
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Parsons, Geoffrey, performer.
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Menasce, Jacques de, 1905-1960.
Lettres d'enfants.
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Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894.
Mélodies (1890). Cigales.
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Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894.
Mélodies (1890). Villanelle des petits canards.
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Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894.
Mélodies (1890). Pastorale des cochons roses.
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Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894.
Mélodies (1890). Ballade des gros dindons.
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Honegger, Arthur, 1892-1955.
Saluste Du Bartas.
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Roussel, Albert, 1869-1937.
Mélodies, op. 20. Bachelier de Salamanque.
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Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963.
Poèmes de Louis Aragon. C.
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Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963.
À sa guitare.
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Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
Mélodies (1916)
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Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
Ludions.
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Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
Socrate; arranged.
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| Added Title |
Songs. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97079164
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French song cycles.
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Deux lettres d'enfants.
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2 lettres d'enfants.
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Lettres d'enfants.
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| Music No. |
NI 5027 Nimbus Records |
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