Release Date: 01 July 2005
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571173351
Description
This third instalment in our series encompassing all Faure’s songs takes its title from the famous Silvestre setting Chanson d’amour and guides the listener on a journey through the panoply of human emotion. Alongside finely chiselled miniatures we have the early cycle Poème d’un jour (to poetry by Grandmougin), the suite from the Shakespeare/Haraucourt drama Shylock (which includes some notable rarities in the form of two-piano arrangements made with Faure’s blessing by the composer Leon Boellmann), and what is surely the apotheosis of the melodie genre: La bonne chanson.
As with preceding volumes, Graham Johnson has employed a range of artists—the very finest interpreters of French song that could be found. Generous commentaries are provided for each song along with the original poems and English translations.
Tracklisting
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Steven Isserlis
The Nash Ensemble
MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Marie McLaughlin, Graham Johnson
Margaret Price, Graham Johnson
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson
Ann Murray, Graham Johnson
Ann Murray, Graham Johnson
Thomas Allen, Graham Johnson
Stephen Varcoe, Graham Johnson
Stephen Varcoe, Graham Johnson
