Poulenc et ses Poetes: Melodies 1939-1961
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95814
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 26th July 2019
Contents
Works
Calligrammes (7), FP140Chansons (3) de F Garcia Lorca, FP136
Dernier poeme, FP163
Fiancailles pour rire (6), FP101
La Courte paille, FP178
La Dame de Monte Carlo, FP180
La fraicheur et le feu: 7 melodies sur des poemes de Paul Eluard, FP147
Le Travail du peintre: 7 Melodies sur des poemes de Paul Eluard, FP161
Les Chemins de l'amour
Poemes (2) de Louis Aragon, FP122
Artists
Valentina Coladonato (soprano)Claudio Proietti (piano)
Works
Calligrammes (7), FP140Chansons (3) de F Garcia Lorca, FP136
Dernier poeme, FP163
Fiancailles pour rire (6), FP101
La Courte paille, FP178
La Dame de Monte Carlo, FP180
La fraicheur et le feu: 7 melodies sur des poemes de Paul Eluard, FP147
Le Travail du peintre: 7 Melodies sur des poemes de Paul Eluard, FP161
Les Chemins de l'amour
Poemes (2) de Louis Aragon, FP122
Artists
Valentina Coladonato (soprano)Claudio Proietti (piano)
About
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 chantés. 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 poème 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 Léocadia 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).
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