Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Pastourelle (Deuxième série, No. 1)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Lo fïolairé (Troisième Série, No. 1)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: La pastrouletta è lou chibalié (Deuxième Série, No. 3)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Chut, chut (Quatrième Série, No. 4)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: La delaïssádo (Deuxième Série, No. 4)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Oï ayaï (Quatrième Série, No. 2)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Baïlèro (Première Série, No. 2)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Lou coucut (Quatrième Série, No. 6)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Pastorale (Quatrième Série, No. 5)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Là-haut, sur le rocher (Cinquième Série, No. 3)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Postouro, sé tu m'aymo (Cinquième Série, No. 5)
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Trois Bourrées (Première Série, No. 3): a) L'aïo dè rotso. Bourrée recueillie en Haute-Auvergne, au
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Trois Bourrées (Première Série, No. 3): b) Ound' onorèn gorda? Bourrée recueillie en Haute-Auvergne
Songs of the Auvergne, for voice & orchestra in 5 series: Trois Bourrées (Première Série, No. 3): c) Obal din lou Limouzi. Bourrée recueillie en Haute-Auverg
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, Op. 18
This 2021 Chandos release hardly seems promising at first glance. Benjamin Britten's Quatre chansons françaises of 1929 aren't recorded terribly often and are sometimes classed as juvenilia, and the market was not clamoring for a new recording of selections from Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne. It is mostly French or English singers who tackle all these works, and soprano Mari Eriksmoen's French has a bit of a Norwegian accent (whether the same is true of Canteloube's Occitan texts is uncertain). Do give the album a second ...
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This 2021 Chandos release hardly seems promising at first glance. Benjamin Britten's Quatre chansons françaises of 1929 aren't recorded terribly often and are sometimes classed as juvenilia, and the market was not clamoring for a new recording of selections from Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne. It is mostly French or English singers who tackle all these works, and soprano Mari Eriksmoen's French has a bit of a Norwegian accent (whether the same is true of Canteloube's Occitan texts is uncertain). Do give the album a second look, however. The early Britten chansons are extremely clever fusions of Debussy's style and those of the composer's English teachers. The Canteloube pieces fit with them beautifully, and nobody else has thought of this program. Conductor Edward Gardner, leading the Bergen Philharmonic, helps with the program shaping, taking the Canteloube songs languidly so as to highlight the new edge in the other Britten French song cycle, Les illuminations, composed in 1939 to texts by Arthur...
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