Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Frédéric Chaslin – Poulenc: La Voix humaine, Fiançailles pour rire (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:53 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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In 1958 Poulenc composed La voix humaine, a one-act opera for soprano and orchestra, based on the monodrama of the same name, written for the Comédie-Française by his friend Jean Cocteau. In this staging of the end of an amorous relationship, we hear only the woman’s side of a final telephone conversation with the man who has abandoned her. The orchestra in this innovative work is used not only to unify the composition, but also to reveal what the voice, laid bare by a moving parlé-chanté style, does not say. Fiançailles pour rire and Chemins de l’amour, usually for voice and piano, but presented here in an orchestrated version by one of our finest conductors, Frédéric Chaslin, completes this eloquent rendition of works of a bittersweetness that Poulenc transcends like no other.
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Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann & Frédéric Chaslin – Chansons pour elle (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:57 minutes | 831 MB | Genre: Classical
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Julie Cherrier here records an album of songs exploring a variety of moods and situations, and covering over a hundred years of French mélodie, from Reynaldo Hahn to the present day. It includes classics of the genre (Debussy’s Nuit d’étoiles, Poulenc’s Les chemins de l’amour), but also very recent compositions, in the form of two song cycles by Frédéric Chaslin. Chansons pour elle (to poems by Jean Cocteau) and Nudités (on texts by Alain Duault) are imaginative works, free in their expression. Music of today meets music of yesterday and the result is both subtle and poetic.
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Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann – Rendez-vous (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:51 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
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Voice, trumpet and piano – it’s most unusual to find these three together in a song cycle. The composer and pianist Frédéric Chaslin delivers here the first chamber work ever written for such a combination. Inspired by poems written by Jean Cocteau, Boris Vian and Alain Duault, he explores, in six original pieces, the various styles in which the trumpet enjoyed prominence in the twentieth century: jazz, ragtime, tango…
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