Régine Crespin sings Lieder and French melodies / Philippe Truffault, director ; Ideale Audience, IMG Aritsts.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Truffault, Philippe, film director.

Crespin, Régine, singer.

Ivaldi, Christian, instrumentalist.

Reiss, Janine, instrumentalist.

Idéale Audience International, production company.

IMG Artists (Firm), production company.

Language:

French

German

Subjects (All):

Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra.

Song cycles--Excerpts.

Song cycles.

Songs, German.

Songs, French.

Genre:

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (51 min., 9 sec.)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Ideale Audience : Img Artists, [1972]

Language Note:

Sung in French and German.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

In a Berlioz, Schubert or Poulenc recital, the French lioness live. Born in Marseille in 1927, Régine Crespin finally succumbed to illness on July 5th, 2007. The one the Americans called "The French Lioness" had fought off two cancers, as she tells in her wonderful memoirs (À la ville, à la scène, published by Actes Sud). Of her, there fortunately remains archive images shot at different times in her career. Although her parents thought of a career as a pharmacist, Crespin joins the Paris Opera. The woman from Marseille vanquishes with her singing: she captivates Wieland Wagner who hires her at Bayreuth and Karajan who takes her on for Salzburg. Everywhere she goes she is a superb: Marschallin in the Cavalier of the Rose by Richard Strauss, and a Carmen of great class, and all the while she defends the Berlozian colours everywhere in the world: her Summer Nights, namely, is an absolute reference. We see her in 1965 during a recital in Paris, where she has an appointment with Berlioz: with Marguerite from The Damnation of Faust, The Spectre of the Rose, Summer Nights and Didon in the Trojans, she easily convinces us that it is no coincidence that he became her favourite composer. In spite of her fondness for the stage and great roles, she doesn't neglect the repertoire of melody and lied, to which she dedicates a great deal of her activities after being appointed as a teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1976. But before that, she already dedicated the warm tone of her voice and her wonderful diction to Le Paon by Ravel which she sings in 1972 accompanied by Janine Reiss then two lieder by Schumann and Schubert, this time with Christian Ivaldi. Back to French melody, in 1964, with Fauré (Soir) and Duparc (La Vie antérieure), and to conclude, a slumming note with Les gars qui vont à la fête by her friend and accomplice Francis Poulenc.

Contents:

The damnation of Faust, op. 24. D'amour l'ardente flamme ; Les nuits d'été, op. 7. Le spectre de la rose ; The Trojans. Je vais mourir ; Adieu, fière cité / Hector Berlioz

Histoires naturelles. Le paon / Maurice Ravel

Liederkreis, op. 39. Intermezzo ; Mondnacht / Robert Schumann

Lachen und Weinen, D. 777 ; Death and the maiden D. 531 / Franz Schubert

Soir, op. 83, no. 2 / Gabriel Fauré

La vie antérieure / Henri Duparc

Chansons villageoises. Les gars qui vont à la fête / Francis Poulenc.

Participant:

Régine Crespin, mezzo-soprano ; Christian Ivaldi, Janine Reiss, piano.

Notes:

Recorded 1964-1972 Maison de la Radio, Paris, France.

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Contains:

Container of: Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Damnation de Faust. D'amour l'ardente flamme

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

Container of: Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Troyens. Je vais mourir

Container of: Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Troyens. Adieu, fière cité

Container of: Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Histoires naturelles. Paon

Container of: Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. Liederkreis, op. 39. Intermezzo

Container of: Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. Liederkreis, op. 39. Mondnacht

Container of: Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Lachen und Weinen.

Container of: Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Tod und das Mädchen (Song).

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

Container of: Duparc, Henri, 1848-1933. Vie antérieure.

Container of: Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Chansons villageoises. Gars qui vont à la fête

OCLC:

956370693

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