L'heure exquise : a French songbook.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Coote, Alice, singer.

Johnson, Graham, 1950- instrumentalist.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Songs (Medium voice) with piano.

Songs, French.

Genre:

Songs, French.

Art music.

Songs.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (1:14:32) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

French songbook

Place of Publication:

London, England : Hyperion, [2015]

Language Note:

Sung in French.

System Details:

digital optical 1.4 m/s stereo

audio file CD audio

Summary:

Alice Coote is the darling of the world's opera stages and recital halls. Her solo recordings are rare events. In this much-anticipated French songbook, Graham Johnson lends his incomparable insight to this most remarkable of talents on an emotional roller coaster through twenty-three songs of Gallic love in all its guises.

Contents:

Les chemins de l'amour / Francis Poulenc (3:48)

L'heure exquise / Reynaldo Hahn (2:26)

Les étoiles / Reynaldo Hahn (2:50)

Le secret / Gabriel Fauré (2:33)

Sérénade / Charles Gounod (4:26)

Au printemps / Charles Gounod (1:57)

Toutes les fleurs / Emmanuel Chabrier (4:45)

Le temps des lilas / Ernest Chausson (4:11)

Fleur jetée / Gabriel Fauré (1:39)

Le spectre de la rose / Hector Berlioz (6:11)

Aimons-nous / Camille Saint-Saëns (4:11)

L'île heureuse / Emmanuel Chabrier (2:50)

Chère nuit / Alfred Bachelet (4:56)

Soirée en mer / Camille Saint-Saëns (4:34)

La grotte / Claude Debussy (2:25)

Fumée / Reynaldo Hahn (2:41)

Je te veux / Erik Satie (3:54)

La chère blessure / Reynaldo Hahn (3:20)

Novembre / Charles Koechlin (3:17)

Voyage à Paris / Francis Poulenc (:58)

Hôtel / Francis Poulenc (1:45)

La Grenouillère / Francis Poulenc (1:50)

Voyage / Francis Poulenc (3:01).

Participant:

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano ; Graham Johnson, piano.

Notes:

The 1st work is an excerpt from incidental music, originally with clarinet, bassoon, violin, double bass, and piano accompaniment; the 8th work originally with orchestra accompaniment.

Title from disc label.

Recorded 2012 October 18-20 All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Susan Youens and biographical notes on the performers in English and texts with English translations (23 pages : portrait) in container.

Contains:

Container of: Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Léocadia. Chemins de l'amour; arranged

Container of: Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947. Chansons grises. Heure exquise

Container of: Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947. Rondels. Étoiles

Container of: Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924. Secret.

Container of: Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Sérénade.

Container of: Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Au printemps.

Container of: Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894. Toutes les fleurs.

Container of: Chausson, Ernest, 1855-1899. Poème de l'amour et de la mer. Temps des lilas; arranged.

Container of: Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924. Fleur jetée.

Container of: Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Nuits d'été. Spectre de la rose

Container of: Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921. Aimons-nous.

Container of: Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894. Mélodies (1890). Île heureuse

Container of: Bachelet, Alfred, 1864-1944. Chère nuit.

Container of: Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921. Soirée en mer.

Container of: Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Chansons de France. Grotte

Container of: Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947. Feuilles blessées. Compagne de l'éther

Container of: Satie, Erik, 1866-1925. Je te veux.

Container of: Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947. Chère blessure.

Container of: Kœchlin, Charles, 1867-1950. Mélodies, op. 22. Novembre

Container of: Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Banalités. Voyage à Paris

Container of: Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Banalités. Hôtel

Container of: Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Grenouillère.

Container of: Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Calligrammes. Voyage

OCLC:

911044331

Publisher Number:

034571179629

CDA67962 Hyperion