Valentina Coladonato - Melodies 1939-1961 [CD]
Valentina Coladonato - Melodies 1939-1961 [CD]
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Poulenc once declared that 'the musical transposition of a poem must be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.' By the age of four he was already able to recite Mallarme's Apparition by heart, and while still very young he made his first efforts at setting verses to music. He loved listening to poets read their own work, and he was a voracious reader, who saw his purpose as a composer to embellish to enrich but never to obscure the words or their meaning. Poulenc loved singers and good singing as much as poetry. All these cycles were written with particular artists in mind; several of them for his life partner, the baritone Pierre Bernac, but he also worked very closely with Clare Croiza and Denise Duval, among others. Thus his vocal lines reflect their individual personalities while being couched in his own, very singable, jazz-inflected idiom. Valentina Coladonato has chosen a path less travelled through Poulenc's song oeuvre, avoiding the Chansons villageoises and Air chantes. Yet in La Fraîcheur et le feu, setting Poulenc's contemporary Paul Eluard, we find an intensity and urgency of expression to rival his masterpiece, the Dialogues of the Carmelites. Motifs from the opera recur in another Eluard cycle, Le travail du peintre, which addresses seven modern painters in turn from Picasso to Villon. A bittersweet air lingers over the Dernier poeme by Desnos, Aragon's C and the monologue La dame de Monte Carlo; but his extrovert, amusing music-hall side comes to the fore in Les chemins de l'amour, based on Jean Anouilh's Leocadia and dedicated to Yvonne Printemps, who was a singer of light music. Even within the same cycle there are contrasting moments that eloquently illustrate Poulenc's own artistic credo: 'My music is my portrait'. A specialist in early and new music, the soprano Valentina Coladonato has worked with conductors including Riccardo Muti and Claudio Abbado. She and Claudio Proietti have also recorded the Shakespeare Sonnets of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco for Brilliant Classics (BC95548).
Tracklist:
- Calligrammes, Fp 140: I. L'espionne
- Calligrammes, Fp 140: II. Mutation
- Calligrammes, Fp 140: III. Vers Le Sud
- Calligrammes, Fp 140: IV. Il Pleut
- Calligrammes, Fp 140: V. La Grâce Exilée
- Calligrammes, Fp 140: VI. Aussi Bien Que Les Cigales
- Calligrammes, Fp 140: VII. Voyage
- 2 Poèmes De Louis Aragon, Fp 122: I. C
- 2 Poèmes De Louis Aragon, Fp 122: II. Fêtes Galantes
- Le Travail Du Peintre, Fp 161: I. Pablo Picasso
- Le Travail Du Peintre, Fp 161: II. Marc Chagall
- Le Travail Du Peintre, Fp 161: III. Georges Braque
- Le Travail Du Peintre, Fp 161: IV. Juan Gris
- Le Travail Du Peintre, Fp 161: V. Paul Klee
- Le Travail Du Peintre, Fp 161: VI. Joan Miró
- Le Travail Du Peintre, Fp 161: VII. Jacques Villon
- Dernier Poème, Fp 163
- La Fraîcheur Et Le Feu, Fp 147: I. Rayon Des Yeux
- La Fraîcheur Et Le Feu, Fp 147: II. Le Matin Les Branches Attisent
- La Fraîcheur Et Le Feu, Fp 147: III. Tout Disparut
- La Fraîcheur Et Le Feu, Fp 147: IV. Dans Les Ténèbres Du Jardin
- La Fraîcheur Et Le Feu, Fp 147: V. Unis La Fraîcheur Et Le Feu
- La Fraîcheur Et Le Feu, Fp 147: VI. Homme Au Sourire Tendre
- La Fraîcheur Et Le Feu, Fp 147: VII. La Grande Rivière Qui Va
- 3 Chansons De Federico Garcia Lorca, Fp 136: I. L'enfant Muet
- 3 Chansons De Federico Garcia Lorca, Fp 136: II. Adeline À La Promenade
- 3 Chansons De Federico Garcia Lorca, Fp 136: III. Chanson De L'oranger Sec
- La Courte Paille, Fp 178: I. Le Sommeil
- La Courte Paille, Fp 178: II. Quelle Aventure!
- La Courte Paille, Fp 178: III. La Reine De Coeur
- La Courte Paille, Fp 178: IV. Ba, Be, Bi, Bo, Bu
- La Courte Paille, Fp 178: V. Les Anges Musiciens
- La Courte Paille, Fp 178: VI. Le Carafon
- La Courte Paille, Fp 178: VII. Lune D'avril
- Les Chemins De L'amour, Fp 106
- Fiançailles Pour Rire, Fp 101: I. La Dame D'andré
- Fiançailles Pour Rire, Fp 101: II Dans L'herbe
- Fiançailles Pour Rire, Fp 101: III. Il Vole
- Fiançailles Pour Rire, Fp 101: IV. Mon Cadavre Est Doux Comme Un Gant
- Fiançailles Pour Rire, Fp 101: V. Violon
- Fiançailles Pour Rire, Fp 101: VI. Fleurs
- La Dame De Monte Carlo, Fp 180
UPC: 5028421958149
Label: Brilliant Classics
Release Date: 8.2.19
Format: CD
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