Release Date: 15 March 2024
Label: Voces8 Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060140212102
Release Date: 15 March 2024
Label: Voces8 Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060140212102
Description
Soprano Paula Sides and pianist Sergey Rybin have teamed up for this vibrant new recording of works by the French 20th Century composer Francis Poulenc. The centrepiece of the album is Poulenc's short solo opera La voix humaine ("The human voice"), based on the play of the same name by his friend Jean Cocteau.
The one-act piece involves a solo singer in a single room with a telephone. The anonymous individual has been abandoned by her lover and reveals that she has attempted to commit suicide. The drama consists of her last conversation with her lover - an intense and sometimes disturbing monologue. Accompanying La voix humaine on the album is Poulenc's song cycle Fiancailles pour rire ("Betrothals for laughs"), his 1939 setting of six poems from the collection of the same name by Louise de Vilmorin.
Tracklisting
Daniela Mars
Daniela Mars
Apollo5
VOCES8
Daniela Mars & Paul Smith
Paul Smith
Paula Sides & Sergey Rybin
Ralf Schnell
Deryck Cooke, Georg Solti; Vienna Philharmonic
Alfredo Campoli
Adam Wakeman
Sally Walker
Daniela Mars & Paul Smith
Kristin Lee
David Daly, Duncan Honeybourne, Ondrej Vrabec, Daniel Wiesner, Graham Walker, David Trippett
John Bailey, Ed Jones, Steve Plews, Prima Facie Ensemble, William Garrett