La vie d'une rose / Silver, Tocci, Bonynge

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
August 16, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MASSENET, JULES
    • PERFORMER
      Silver, Tocci, Bonynge
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 16, 2019
    • UPC
      748871060029
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0600
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Sérénade d'automne

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    2. Passionnément

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    3. L'heure solitaire

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Christine Tocci, Richard Bonynge

    4. Nuit d'Espagne

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    5. Souhait

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    6. La mélodie des baisers

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Christine Tocci, Richard Bonynge

    7. Rien ne passe!

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    8. 4 Mélodies, Op. 12: No. 3. La vie d'une rose

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    9. Le poète et le fantôme (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Christine Tocci, Richard Bonynge

    10. Poëme d'amour: No. 4. Puisqu'elle a pris ma vie

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    11. Dieu créa le désert

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    12. Expressions lyriques: No. 5. La dernière lettre de Werther à Charlotte

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Christine Tocci, Richard Bonynge

    13. Le sais-tu?

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    14. La dernière chanson

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    15. Aux étoiles

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Christine Tocci, Richard Bonynge

    16. Chanson pour elle

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    17. Etre aimé

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    18. Salut, Printemps!

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Christine Tocci, Richard Bonynge

    19. Le coffret d'ébène

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    20. Poeme d'avril, Op. 14: No. 5. Vous aimerez demain

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    21. Joie

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Christine Tocci, Richard Bonynge

    22. L'ame des fleurs

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    23. Les fleurs

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Christine Tocci, Richard Bonynge

    24. Le petit Jesus

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge

    25. Amoureux appel

      Composer: Jules Massenet

      Performer: Sally Silver, Richard Bonynge


SOMM Recordings is honored to release one of the last recordings made by the much-loved and admired soprano Sally Silver before her death at the age of 51 in 2018. Silver’s third release on SOMM, La vie d’une rose returns to the evocatively perfumed songs of Jules Massenet following 2015’s well-received Les amoureuses sont des folles. Accompanied again by the renowned conductor- pianist Richard Bonynge – who also provides a moving, specially written tribute – she is joined by the mezzo-soprano Christine Tocci on six duets. The 25 (of Massenet’s 285) mélodies heard here offer a marked contrast to the familiar image of the composer’s famed operatic credentials. As Massenet expert Hervé Oléon says in his authoritative booklet notes: “Massenet, the song composer, was, in his own words, rather more at home in salons – this ‘bourgeois artist at the fireside’ as he liked to describe himself”. Embracing a multitude of emotions, sacred and profane, these songs employ wide-ranging forms and a broad musical palette to always captivating ends while also revealing a composer perpetually developing, keen to experiment and looking towards the future. La vie d’une rose is produced by the late soprano’s husband Jeremy Silver (Director of the Opera School at the University of Cape Town) who also provides the translation of Hervé Oléon’s booklet notes. Of Sally Silver’s previous releases with SOMM, her first volume of Massenet songs, Les amoureuses sont des folles (SOMMCD 0151), received the coveted Orphée d’or from L’Académie du disque lyrique and was a Recording of the Month for MusicWeb International, who described it as “A pure delight... [Silver and Bonynge] bring inspired, sympathetic, thoughtfully nuanced readings to these songs”. Songs by William Vincent Wallace (SOMMCD 0131) was hailed by Classical Ear as “A release full of delightful discoveries distinguished by persuasive performances of idiomatic charm”.