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Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne / Gens, Casadesus, et al
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Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne / Gens, Casadesus, et al

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Composer
CANTELOUBE
Artist
Véronique, Jean-Claude, Gens, Casadesus
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Feb 22, 2005
Catalog #
8557491
UPC
747313249121

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R E V I E W S:

ClassicsToday:
Canteloube's setting of folk songs from France's Auvergne region is a sure-fire hit. The music is catchy, full of delightful oboe and wind solos, snappy percussion, and imitations of traditional native instruments, including bagpipes. And unless you're genetically resistant to rustic humor, the texts are charming. But, especially in the songs with full orchestra, they're art songs, not folk music, and thus they ask for a trained soloist. The rub is that singers also must project the rawness of the real folk singer, a trait rarely found in opera singers turning to folk material. Here, Véronique Gens, a favorite in Baroque and Mozart recordings and a soprano endowed with gorgeous, full-bodied tonal resources, finds the right blend of trained sophistication and folkish naiveté.


Gens is predictably fine in lullabies like the popular "Brezairola" and "Baïlèro", her lovely soprano soaring, its bright touch of silver shedding rays of light on the infant objects of affection. In songs like "Lo calhé" (The Quail) and "La delaïssádo" (Deserted) I first thought her a bit too cultivated, but by the second hearing she seemed just right, hitting the swinging rhythm of "Lo calhé" with vigor and aptly characterizing "La delaïssádo". Apprehensions of oversophistication went out the window with "Malurous qu'o uno fenno" (Unfortunate is he who has a wife), where Gens really gets down and dirty. And she closes the program with a bouncy "Lou diziou bé" (They said), wonderfully bringing out the mockery of the words and portraying the narrator and the faithless Pierre with humor.


Jean-Claude Casadesus and the Lille Orchestra offer fine support, the unnamed wind soloists really digging into their parts with gusto. I wouldn't part with the incomparable charm of Victoria de los Angeles, the appropriately folkish Netanya Davrath, or the first and still best interpreter of these songs, Madeleine Grey. But Gens wraps most of their strengths into one full disc (but with plenty of room for 3 or 4 more songs). Would that the engineers have matched her. Oddly enough, sometimes they do, capturing vivid presence and good voice/band balances. But in other songs, especially those with full orchestral strings, she's often too closely miked, the orchestra veiled. Bottom line: this bargain Naxos disc of 21 songs is the one to have if you want a well-chosen, representative selection. [2/18/2005]--Dan Davis, ClassicsToday.com

MusicWeb
"Véronique Gens has easily one of the most exquisite voices in the business today; moreover anything she does is uncommonly intelligent and musically informed. With this recording Naxos enters the echelons of upmarket performances. In this material, Gens outclasses Kiri te Kanawa in terms of vocal beauty and is in an altogether different league interpretatively. She is even a match for the venerable recording made by the late Victoria de los Angeles. Indeed, she may even have an edge over her competitors, for Gens is a native of the Auvergne. She would have grown up well aware of the history and traditions of regional culture...This recording is so distinctive that I've little doubt it will be the definitive Chants d'Auvergne for many years to come." - Anne Ozorio, MusicWeb

Tracklist 21 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. La Pastoura Als Camps (The Shepherdess in the Fields) 02:47
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. La Pastoura Als Camps (The Shepherdess in the Fields)
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  2. 2 No. 2. Bailero 05:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Bailero
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  3. 3 No. 3a. L'aio De Rotso (Spring Water) 03:09
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3a. L'aio De Rotso (Spring Water)
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  4. 4 No. 3b. Ound'onoren Gorda? (Where Shall We Go?)) 02:34
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3b. Ound'onoren Gorda? (Where Shall We Go?))
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  5. 5 No. 3c. Obal, Din Lou Limouzi (Over in Limousin) 01:15
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 3c. Obal, Din Lou Limouzi (Over in Limousin)
    Duration
    01:15
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  6. 6 No. 1. Pastourelle (Pastorale) 03:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 1. Pastourelle (Pastorale)
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  7. 7 No. 2. L'Antoueno (Antoine) 03:16
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 2. L'Antoueno (Antoine)
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  8. 8 No. 5a. N'ai Pas Ieu De Mio (I Have No Sweetheart) 04:41
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 5a. N'ai Pas Ieu De Mio (I Have No Sweetheart)
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  9. 9 No. 5b. Lo Calhe (The Snail) 01:43
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 5b. Lo Calhe (The Snail)
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  10. 10 No. 4. La Delaissado (The Abandoned Girl) 04:08
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 4. La Delaissado (The Abandoned Girl)
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  11. 11 No. 2. Passo pel prat (Go through the meadow) 03:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 2. Passo pel prat (Go through the meadow)
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  12. 12 No. 3. Lou Boussu (The Hunchback) 02:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 3. Lou Boussu (The Hunchback)
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  13. 13 No. 4. Brezairola (Lullaby) 03:15
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 4. Brezairola (Lullaby)
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  14. 14 No. 5. Malurous Qu'o Uno Fenno (Sorry the Man Who Has a Wife) 01:33
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 5. Malurous Qu'o Uno Fenno (Sorry the Man Who Has a Wife)
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  15. 15 No. 1. Jou L'pount D'o Mirabel (On Mirabel Bridge) 04:00
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 1. Jou L'pount D'o Mirabel (On Mirabel Bridge)
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  16. 16 No. 2. Oi Ayai (Oh No!) 03:03
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 2. Oi Ayai (Oh No!)
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  17. 17 No. 6. Lou Coucut (The Cuckoo) 01:52
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 6. Lou Coucut (The Cuckoo)
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  18. 18 No. 2. Quan Z'eyro Petitoune (When I was a Little Girl) 02:57
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 2. Quan Z'eyro Petitoune (When I was a Little Girl)
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  19. 19 No. 3. La Haut, Sur Le Rocher (Up There on the Rock) 03:48
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 3. La Haut, Sur Le Rocher (Up There on the Rock)
    Duration
    03:48
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  20. 20 No. 7. Uno Jionto Postouro (A Fair Shepherd Lass) 02:41
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 7. Uno Jionto Postouro (A Fair Shepherd Lass)
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus
  21. 21 No. 8. Lou Diziou Be (They Did Say) 01:21
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 8. Lou Diziou Be (They Did Say)
    Duration
    01:21
    Composer
    Joseph Canteloube
    Performer
    Véronique Gens
    Ensemble
    Orchestre National de Lille
    Conductor
    Jean-Claude Casadesus