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Guillaume Apollinaire: Alcools - La Chanson du mal aime - Le

Frémeaux

$20.99 Jul 17, 2026

This CD, produced by Jean-Baptiste Mersiol, offers a thoughtful journey through the poetic works of Guillaume Apollinaire, a founding figure of 20th-century literary modernity. Through historical recordings, it highlights the oral reception of his texts by great interpreters of theatrical heritage: Jean Negroni, Jacques Duby, Maurice Escande, and Jean Topart. From La Chanson du mal-aimé to the poems of Alcools, from Bestiaire to texts from the war period, this anthology captures the diversity of a body of work that combines lyricism, experimentation, and memory. In addition, there is an exceptional archival document: Guillaume Apollinaire reciting Le Pont Mirabeau on cylinder in 1913, a rare testimony to the poet's voice and the history of recorded works. Patrick Frémeaux

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Guillaume Apollinaire: Alcools - La Chanson du mal aime - Le
Frémeaux Jul 2026
CD
$20.99

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Ronsard et la musique - Cueillez, cueillez votre jeunesse!

Alpha

$29.99 Sep 06, 2024

2024 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Ronsard, known as the Prince des Poetes, whose poems have been set to music more than four hundred times over the centuries. This programme has been curated by Denis Raisin Dadre and compares several settings of the same sonnet by 16th-century musicians (Gardane, Lassus, Castro, Bertrand, Costeley) and by such later composers as Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saens, Paul Dukas, Maurice Ravel, Theodore Gouvy, Pauline Viardot and Arthur Honegger, all of whom were clearly seduced by the same Bonjour mon cœur and the famous Mignonne, allon voir si la rose some three centuries later. A truly fascinating playlist of songs inspired by a genius whose beau style bas, populaire et plaisant has stood the test of time. The musicians of Doulce Memoire re-create the Renaissance settings here, whilst singer Marc Mauillon and pianist Anne Le Bozec perform the songs of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Ronsard et la musique - Cueillez, cueillez votre jeunesse!
Alpha Sep 2024
CD
$29.99

Vieuxtemps: Voix intimes - Rarities for Violin & Piano / Csikos, Lechardeur

Naxos

$9.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 50% Feb 09, 2024

This instalment in the Naxos survey of Vieuxtemps’ lesser-known chamber and instrumental works includes more unearthed gems for violin and piano, performed by Vilmos Csikos and Olivier Lechardeur. Among the discoveries is the world premiere recording of the Fantasy for Voice, Violin and Orchestra featuring the young soprano Manon Lamaison in a wordless vocalise.

REVIEW:

In the Fantasia for voice, violin, and orchestra, the voice has the task of wordlessly evoking memories of the composer. The lines of the violin and the voice entwine. This piece can be heard for the first time in a piano reduction instead of the orchestra. Ma marche funèbre and Souvenir d’amitié were also recorded for the first time.

Three young artists have taken on these discoveries and present their results. The soprano Manon Lamaison only appears in the fantasy at the end. Singing solidly, she masters her wordless contribution.

Violinist Vilmos Csikos and pianist Olivier Lechardeur are involved throughout. Csikos positively presents the music in a musical rather than virtuoso manner, whereby the radiant soloistic aura is not difficult for him. However, work titles such as Elegy and Romance also suggest such an approach.

Lechardeur finds his place in the duo as a secure and reliable accompanist. Overall, the impression remains that these rarities of the repertoire are presented here in a passable manner.

-- Pizzicato

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Vieuxtemps: Voix intimes - Rarities for Violin & Piano / Csikos, Lechardeur
Naxos Feb 2024
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Messiaen - Songs & Vocal Chamber Music / Hannigan, Sy, Frang, Chamayou

Alpha

$20.99 May 24, 2024

Soprano Barbara Hannigan and pianist Bertrand Chamayou unite to record the vocal music of Olivier Messiaen, presenting his two major song cycles from the 1930's. Existing in both the sensual and sacred realms, the Poèmes pour Mi are inspired by the precious relationship of Messiaen and “Mi” - the nickname of his first wife; violinist and composer Claire Delbos. Chants de terre et de ciel also emerges from Messiaen's marriage to Delbos, written just after the birth of their son, Pascal. Both cycles oscillate between hypnotic meditation and ecstatic songs of love, supported by Messiaen's intense spiritual faith. Inspired by Messiaen's words, "It is a glistening music we seek...", Hannigan and Chamayou delve into the composer's complex language to reveal a natural and flowing music, whose roots extend from the earth upwards to a shimmering realm. As a final work on the album, Hannigan and Chamayou included a rarely performed "scena" of Messiaen: La Mort du nombre (1929) is a dialogue between two souls, in which they are joined by the Canadian tenor Charles Sy and the Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang.

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Messiaen - Songs & Vocal Chamber Music / Hannigan, Sy, Frang, Chamayou
Alpha May 2024
CD
$20.99

Les chansons des roses

Convivium Records

$16.99 Oct 04, 2024

Everyone involved in Jervaulx Singers has a passion for vocal music in all it's forms. The varied repertoire of Les chansons des roses encompasses all that this choir is about - giving singers the freedom to sincerely express themselves through choral music, song and opera. This repertoire, all connected to earth and nature, reminds us to cherish the world around us. Charlie Gower-Smith, Director, Jervaulx Singers

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Les chansons des roses
Convivium Records Oct 2024
CD
$16.99

Carmina Gallica - Latin Chansons of the 12th Century
Alpha Sep 2007
CD
$20.99

Johannes Ockeghem: Les Chanson / Jesse Rodin, Cut Circle [2 CDs]

Musique en Wallonie

$29.99 Sep 25, 2020

Intimacy, intensity, passion—this album explores the unfamiliar idea that fifteenth-century songs might cause us to sigh, weep, or laugh out loud. In bringing to life a world in which crying in public was not just acceptable but required, we have to take seriously the crushing despair of a line like “My only sorrow is that I am not dead,” or the undisguised sarcasm of “This is how she chopped and cooked me up.” In Johannes Ockeghem’s roughly two dozen songs we find not only unparalleled compositional prowess, but feelings that range from happiness to loss, anger to despair, and bitterness to merriment. The album’s all-vocal, fully texted, close-mic’d performances are rooted in a flexible, full-blooded vocal technique that aims to capture the music’s technical brilliance and emotional depth.

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Johannes Ockeghem: Les Chanson / Jesse Rodin, Cut Circle [2 CDs]
Musique en Wallonie Sep 2020
CD
$29.99

Chanson et Danses / Oslo Kammerakademi

LAWO Classics

$18.99 Oct 01, 2021

Flutist, composer, and teacher Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) was to have a decisive influence on the development of chamber music for winds in France. In 1879 he founded the Société de musique de chambre pour instruments à vent (Society of Chamber Music for Wind Instruments). The organization’s objective was to expand and promote chamber music repertoire for winds. On this recording, the Oslo Kammerakademi performs chamber works for winds by composers Charles Gounod, Charles Koechlin, Florent Schmitt, Théodore Gouvy, and Vincent d’Indy, several of which were composed for the Société de musique de chambre pour instruments à vent.

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Chanson et Danses / Oslo Kammerakademi
LAWO Classics Oct 2021
CD
$18.99

Boulanger, Debussy, Francaix & Ravel: Reflexions - French Pi

Haenssler Classic

$20.99 Nov 01, 2024

French Piano Trios - Trio Gaon Trio Gaon presents major works of French chamber music with compositions by Debussy, Ravel, Lili Boulanger and Francaix. This is a genre that does not really have a large selection of works to choose from as there were not many French composers who dedicated themselves to this form of instrumentation, something that can be explained by the historical development of music particular to France. More comfortable with opera, French composers belatedly began to turn to composing instrumental music in the middle of the 19th century in an effort to emancipate themselves from the predominance of the German and Austrian musical tradition, and thus from one of it's most important forms, that of the sonata.

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Boulanger, Debussy, Francaix & Ravel: Reflexions - French Pi
Haenssler Classic Nov 2024
CD
$20.99

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) enregistrements historiques 1

Frémeaux

$32.99 Jan 23, 2026

Taxe d'immoralite, condamne et censure, Baudelaire est, contre son temps, celui que Rimbaud definissait comme le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai Dieu et don't l'influence perdure jusque chez nos artistes contemporains. Des Fleurs du Mal, son oeuvre maitresse, aux extraits de ses journaux intimes ou de Lettre a sa mere, les comediens tels que Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean Desailly et Pierre Blanchar redonnent vie a cet albatros le temps de quelques vers. Coralie IMMACOLATO & Patrick FReMEAUX Taxed with immorality, condemned and censored, Baudelaire was, against his time, the man Rimbaud defined as "the first seer, king of poets, a true God", whose influence endures even among our contemporary artists. From Fleurs du Mal, his masterwork, to excerpts from his diaries and Lettre a sa mere, actors such as Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean Desailly and Pierre Blanchar bring this albatross to life for the space of a few verses. Coralie IMMACOLATO & Patrick FReMEAUX CD1 : JEAN DESAILLY : L'ENNEMI - LES BIJOUX - LA CHEVELURE - LE BEAU NAVIRE - L'AMOUR DU MENSONGE - LA MORT DES AMANTS - ALAIN CUNY : LE SERPENT QUI DANSE - AVEC SES VeTEMENTS - ReVERSIBILITe - a UNE PASSANTE - SEMPER EADEM - LE MORT JOYEUX - JEAN MARCHAT : CORRESPONDANCES - PAYSAGE - LE CYGNE - LE VOYAGE - JEAN YONNEL : CHANT D'AUTOMNE - LA MUSIQUE - HARMONIE DU SOIR - LA BEAUTe - ANDRe FALCON : LE CHAT - PIERRE BLANCHAR : LE VIN DES AMANTS - SYMPTÔMES DE RUINES - CONFITEOR DE L'ARTISTE - LA CHAMBRE DOUBLE - LE CRePUSCULE DU SOIR - LES FENeTRES - LE RENIEMENT DE SAINT-PIERRE. CD2 : ALEXANDRE RIGNAULT : LES CHATS - LE GUIGNON - L'ALBATROS - TU METTRAIS L'UNIVERS ENTIER DANS TA RUELLE - LE VAMPIRE - DANIEL LECOURTOIS : PARFUM EXOTIQUE - DON JUAN AUX ENFERS - eLeVATION - LE FLACON - LE JEU - SPLEEN I - SPLEEN II - SPLEEN III - JEAN-LOUIS BARRAULT : L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE - LE JET D'EAU - HENRI DOUBLIER : ePIGRAPHE POUR UN LIVRE CONDAMNe - a UNE MADONE - LA VIE ANTeRIEURE - LES PETITES VIEILLES - L'HORLOGE - UNE CHAROGNE - PIERRE BLANCHAR : MON COEUR MIS a NU - AU LECTEUR - LA FIN DE LA JOURNeE - LETTRE a SA MeRE - ANYWHERE OUT OF THE WORLD - FUSeES - MARIA CASAReS : RECUEILLEMENT. DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE : JEAN-BAPTISTE MERSIOL

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Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) enregistrements historiques 1
Frémeaux Jan 2026
CD
$32.99

Deux Siecles d'Orgue / Lebegue, Bouvard, Desenclos, Espinasse, Robin

Alpha

$24.99 Aug 27, 2013

Two centuries of organ music at the Chapelle Royale, Versailles . . . The recently restored organ of the chapel bears witness to the glorious past of this historic site and the magnificence of the royal liturgy. This project, entrusted to the four resident organists of the instrument, presents a rich panorama of the composers who had the privilege of entering the Versailles organ loft, from the Couperin dynasty to Balbastre. It forms part of a new series produced by Alpha with the Château de Versailles, which will present the fruits of the latest research into the organ repertory in a sumptuous edition.

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Deux Siecles d'Orgue / Lebegue, Bouvard, Desenclos, Espinasse, Robin
Alpha Aug 2013
CD
$24.99

OUI MAIS
Signature Sep 2002
CD
$20.99

De Monte: Madrigals and Chansons / Ratas Del Viejo Mundo
Ramee Apr 2021
CD
$20.99

CHANSONS D'AUTOMNE

Radio France

$20.99 Feb 23, 2018

After making his adieux to opera in 2010, José van Dam began venturing into other musical genres by revisiting the tangos of Carlos Gardel in the company of Jean-Louis Rassinfosse and Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven. Caminito, an album released by Cyprès, ravished fans keen to discover the famous bass-baritone in an unexpected repertoire, and also featured an unexpected collaboration with an already atypical duo: a jazz double bass-player and a polymorphic pianist. Sharing moments of music and friendship from one concert to the next, the trio acquired a unique sheen, born of spontaneity and complicity. A desire to prolong the adventure was only natural, though this time in a selection from a much broader repertoire: the French chanson. José van Dam began by exploring songs he has always known, putting lyrics above vocal effect, for in the simple melodies of the chanson, everything can often be said in just a few notes. From this unlimited repertoire, José chose texts that move him the most. Texts that talk of love. The love of the sublime Jacques Brel for the flatness of his homeland, love for a father, for a friend, for the bohemian Montmartre of one’s youth, for jazz, for partying... the trio leads us by the hand in search of the traces of separated lovers whose footprints on the sand are so quickly erased by the sea.

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CHANSONS D'AUTOMNE
Radio France Feb 2018
CD
$20.99

Chansons & Frottole

Naïve

$16.99 Nov 07, 2025

The French and Italian Renaissance song repertoire, immortalised during the first three decades of the sixteenth century by the printed editions of Pierre Attaingnant in Paris and Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice, invites audiences, and in former times performers, to immerse themselves in a world in which memories of medieval courtly poetry, the austerity (as reimagined in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) of ancient lamentations, and a fully polyphonic narrative style, were all collided and superimposed-a certain sense of conversation can remind us also of the French air de cour as well as the early Italian madrigal form. These chansons and frottole give rise to discrete, almost enigmatic emotions, where music and text unite as one, transparent and restrained. Guided by the subtle sound of Hopkinson Smith's lute, the diaphanous voice of German soprano Sophie Klussmann roams over this little-known early Renaissance territory through four sections which take the form of return journeys between France and Italy. The sly melancholy of songs by Claude de Sermisy (Puisqu'en amours) and other French contemporary figures, some of them settings of poems by Clement Marot, thus collides with more plaintive pieces, by Marchetto Cara (Io non compro piu speranza) and Bartolomeo Tromboncino, whose supplicatory Per dolor me bagno il viso and final, heady Dolermi sempre voglio both attain peaks of intensity, at the same time being two sumptuous examples of the frottola form. During these sixty minutes, Sophie Klussmann produces exquisitely subtle and precious wisps of sound, recalling that the heart and soul of these snapshots very often remains the matter of love. Her dark gold timbre hints at the eternal in the one piece in the programme whose text is of a religious nature, the sublime, questioning prayer Se mai per maraveglia.

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Chansons & Frottole
Naïve Nov 2025
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$16.99

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Verlaine et Rimbaud - Poemes dits par Jean-louis Barrault, R

Frémeaux

$32.99 Jan 16, 2026

Maudits selon l'expression consacree et l'ouvrage eponyme que Verlaine publie en 1884, les poetes amants ont explore ensemble les nouvelles voies poetiques, rejetant les conventions et embrassant l'experimentation formelle et thematique. C'est ce jeu de sons allie à la puissance du verbe que l'on goûte avec delice grâce à l'interpretation passionnee de cette selection de leurs poemes par les grands de la Comedie-Francaise tels que Robert Hirsch, Jean Piat ou Jean-Louis Barrault. Stephanie ACQUETTE & Patrick FReMEAUX Cursed, according to the eponymous work published by Verlaine in 1884, the poet lovers explored new poetic paths together, rejecting conventions and embracing formal experimentation and thematics. It is this interplay of sounds and the power of words that we savour with delight, thanks to the passionate interpretation of this selection of their poems by the greats of the Comedie-Francaise, including Robert Hirsch, Jean Piat and Jean-Louis Barrault. Stephanie ACQUETTE & Patrick FReMEAUX CD1 - VERLAINE : MARIA CASAReS ET GeRARD PHILIPE : COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL - ROBERT HIRSCH : FRAGMENT D'UN NOCTURNE PARISIEN - C'EST LA FÊTE DU BLe - PUISQUE L'AUBE GRANDIT - JEAN PIAT : LA LUNE BLANCHE - GREEN - JEAN YONNEL : MON DIEU M'A DIT - JEAN DESAILLY : INITIUM - LE SOLEIL DU MATIN - LE BRUIT DES CABARETS - L'ALLeE - À LA PROMENADE - LE FAUNE - EN SOURDINE - JE DEVINE, À TRAVERS UN MURMURE - LE PIANO - C'EST LE CHIEN - L'OMBRE DES ARBRES - POURQUOI TRISTE, Ô MON ÂME - GASPARD HAUSER CHANTE - UN GRAND SOMMEIL NOIR - JE NE SAIS POURQUOI - DERNIER ESPOIR - MAURICE ESCANDE : ART POeTIQUE - LE SON DU COR S'AFFLIGE VERS LES BOIS - VA TON CHEMIN - AVANT QUE TU NE T'EN AILLES - L'eCHELONNEMENT DES HAIES - APReS TROIS ANS - IMPRESSION FAUSSE - MANDOLINE - JE NE VEUX PLUS AIMER QUE MA MeRE MARIE - FRANcOIS PeRIER : NEVERMORE - MON RÊVE FAMILIER - PROMENADE SENTIMENTALE - CHANSON D'AUTOMNE - CLAIR DE LUNE - IL PLEURE DANS MON COEUR - DANS L'INTERMINABLE ENNUI - LES FAUX BEAUX JOURS - eCOUTEZ LA CHANSON BIEN DOUCE - LES CHeRES MAINS - L'ESPOIR LUIT - LE CIEL EST PAR-DESSUS LE TOIT. CD2 - RIMBAUD : GeRARD PHILIPE : LE BATEAU IVRE - ROBERT HIRSCH : VOYELLES - LES CHERCHEUSES DE POUX - LE PAUVRE SONGE - SACHA PITOËFF : ROYAUTe - MAUVAIS SANG - HISTOIRE D'UNE DE MES FOLIES - À QUATRE HEURES DU MATIN, L'eTe - Ô SAISONS, Ô CHÂTEAUX - JEAN-LOUIS BARRAULT : LE DORMEUR DU VAL - LES ASSIS - ROMAN (ON EST PAS SeRIEUX, QUAND ON A DIX SEPT ANS) - COMeDIE EN TROIS BAISERS - JEAN DESCHAMPS : MA BOHeME - BAL DES PENDUS - OPHeLIE - ROBERT HIRSCH : ENFANCE II - ENFANCE III - UNE SAISON EN ENFER (ADIEU) - APReS LE DeLUGE - FLEURS - MYSTIQUE - AUBE - J'AI TENDU DES CORDES (FRAGMENTS) - JEAN LOUIS BARRAULT : ALCHIMIE DU VERBE. DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE : JEAN-BAPTISTE MERSIOL

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Verlaine et Rimbaud - Poemes dits par Jean-louis Barrault, R
Frémeaux Jan 2026
CD
$32.99

L'Amour de moy - French Songs of the Odhecaton / Doulce Mémoire

Ricercar

$20.99 Oct 20, 2023

Doulce mémoire here delves into the repertoire of French songs that were central to the first printed score in the history of music, Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (Venice, 1501). This repertoire dates from the end of the 15th century and includes music from not only the French and Burgundian courts but also from the chanson rustique, a new genre that was in use at the court of Louis XII (1462-1515). This singular repertoire is based on popular melodies that dealt with everyday, amorous, erotic and satirical subjects; the texts have an irregular versification that was known as ‘rural rhetoric’ at that time.

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L'Amour de moy - French Songs of the Odhecaton / Doulce Mémoire
Ricercar Oct 2023
CD
$20.99

Guillaume de Machaut: Mon chant vous envoy
Eloquentia Jan 2013
CD
$20.99

RUSSIA: CHANSONS RUSSES
Ocora Radio-France Jun 2001
CD
$20.99

Les oiseaux musiciens, 3 CD de chants d’oiseaux + 1 CD d'ent

Frémeaux

$32.99 Oct 06, 2023

Offered by Frémeaux & Associés and Forêts et Campagnes d'Avenir, in partnership with the LPO (Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux), this 4-CD boxed set brings together the sounds of European birds captured and recorded by audionaturalist Jean C. Roché, which are the closest to human monophonic music, right up to contemporary classical music. These songs reflect an incredible variety of melodies, rhythms and timbres, which, like the proto-languages of primates, can be considered the proto-music of mankind. An interview CD, recorded by Bernard Fort, founder of the GMVL, completes this collection. Jean C. Roché talks about his fascinating exchanges and reflections on bird music with composer Olivier Messiaen. Patrick FRÉMEAUX & Allain BOUGRAIN DUBOURG

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Les oiseaux musiciens, 3 CD de chants d’oiseaux + 1 CD d'ent
Frémeaux Oct 2023
CD
$32.99

Du Bellay: Heureux qui, comme Ulysse / Dadre, Kwal, Doulce Mémoire

Alpha

$20.99 Sep 09, 2022

Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560) stormed onto the Parisian literary scene with the resounding avant-garde manifesto Défense et illustration de la langue française. Ronsard and Du Bellay are the great French poets of the sixteenth century, but while the former has been set to music hundreds of times, Du Bellay inspired only about thirty compositions. Denis Raisin Dadre and his ensemble Doulce Mémoire celebrate the Angevin poet on the occasion of his 500th anniversary with works by the leading composers of the period, among them Arcadelt (who set nine chansons to his texts, including Je ne puis dissimuler a year before Du Bellay’s death), Lassus, Chardavoine and Verdonck. It was also established practice at the time to declaim poems accompanied by a musician who improvised on the lyre, an instrument and usage imported from Italy (recitare a la lira). Denis Raisin Dadre has decided to pay tribute to these sixteenth-century ‘slam poets’ by asking a modern equivalent, Kwal, to ‘slam’ some of Du Bellay's sonnets, including the famous "Heureux qui, comme Ulysse."

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Du Bellay: Heureux qui, comme Ulysse / Dadre, Kwal, Doulce Mémoire
Alpha Sep 2022
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$20.99

Françaix: Chamber Music / Various

Brilliant Classics

$10.99 ~~$13.99~~ Save 20% Jul 23, 2021

In his 80s, Jean Françaix (1912-1997) supervised this 1996 Dutch album of four pieces for varied forces, writing the engaging booklet notes and performing with undimmed skill in the Divertimento which he wrote back in 1953 for the flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal. As he notes, the title is somewhat ironic for those who play it: ‘if it is “diverting” to listen to, it is not at all so to play it and requires great virtuosity.’ Le Colloque des deux Perruches (The Dialogue of Two Parakeets) is a modern classic of the repertoire for two flutes: a six-movement dialogue opening with a fluttering, swooping Allegrissimo, followed by a melancholy little Larghetto. Smiles and laughter are never far away in Françaix’s music and the mood brightens with a darting Scherzando. The fifth movement is another plaintive Larghetto, with the parakeets in earnest conversation. As a 22-year-old composer of already remarkable fluency, Françaix composed the String Trio for the Trio Pasquier, who went on to play it in over a thousand concerts: an inimitably bustling, weightless piece in four movements enclosing a wistful Andante and rounding off with one of those Françaix tunes that turns round in the listener’s head for days afterwards. The ten-minute Cantate de Méphisto sets a text by Paul Valéry: according to the composer, ‘This 'Méphisto' is terribly authentic, cunning, subversive and perverse.’ The devil wheedles and beguiles in a lyric parlando, accompanied by a string ensemble, spiced by the irony and satire of his operas and comedies such as Le diable boiteux, his first work for the stage. Valéry’s text is printed in the booklet. Françaix’s music features in countless compilations: here is an authoritatively performed opportunity to immerse yourself in his world for ‘une heure exquise’.

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Françaix: Chamber Music / Various
Brilliant Classics Jul 2021
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FOUR HANDS FOR FRANCE

Toccata

$20.99 Aug 20, 2021

Playing four-hands piano was both vital in the dissemination of music in the nineteenth century and also a popular domestic activity. The French composers recorded here span the Romantic century, from the salon charm of Chaminade and Massenet and the virtuosity of Alkan's wild dance to the innocence of the family music-room in pieces by Chausson, Godard and Ropartz. The original 1853 Parisian Erard piano on which this recording was made combines warmth with bell-like clarity, because of it's straight stringing, allowing it to produce a surprising variety of appealing, expressive textures.

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FOUR HANDS FOR FRANCE
Toccata Aug 2021
CD
$20.99

Machaut

Delos

$20.99 Oct 09, 2026

Following the huge success of it's first Delos recording ('hallmark powdery blend and intonation so pure' - The New York Times), the GRAMMY Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer, under the leadership of Music Director Tim Keeler, is now turning to fourteenth-century's most celebrated composer Guillaume de Machaut. Although born in obscurity around 1300, Guillaume was to enjoy a stellar career that saw him hold various prestigious positions, including at the Cathedral of Reims. This album presents music from both facets of the composer's life, which today we might see as incompatible. With the Messe de Nostre Dame, we see Machaut the devout cleric of a major cathedral. Conversely, songs such as Douce dame jolie and Riches d'amour, among others, show Machaut the courtly poet-composer who sings of the emotional experience of secular love for his noble patrons.

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Machaut
Delos Oct 2026
CD
$20.99

Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 - Rondeaux

Grand Piano

$19.99 Sep 13, 2024

Louise Farrenc's Rondos - heard here in world premiere recordings - were composed within the period of a decade, and are delicious examples of her art: graceful, elegant and expressive. Some of them are based on operatic themes or on songs, while others are simpler and intended for younger performers. Volumes 1 and 2 of this 6 album cycle can be heard on GP912-13 and GP934.

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Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 - Rondeaux
Grand Piano Sep 2024
CD
$19.99