Formidable: French Chansons
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Label: Channel Classics
Cat No: CCS43321
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 29th October 2021
Contents
Works
For me formidableDis, quand reviendras-tu?
L'isle aux mimosas
Et maintenant
Les prenoms de Paris
Mathilde
Mon enfance
String Quartet in G minor, op.10
Sous le ciel de Paris
Les Feuilles mortes
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Boum!
La mer
Artists
Thomas Oliemans (voice, piano)Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Conductor
Candida ThompsonWorks
For me formidableDis, quand reviendras-tu?
L'isle aux mimosas
Et maintenant
Les prenoms de Paris
Mathilde
Mon enfance
String Quartet in G minor, op.10
Sous le ciel de Paris
Les Feuilles mortes
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Boum!
La mer
Artists
Thomas Oliemans (voice, piano)Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Conductor
Candida ThompsonAbout
‘When I started to learn the piano and got into the habit of singing along, it was obviously French chansons that I picked up by ear and sang entirely phonetically. Julien Clerc with his franglais of This Melody, and Brel with his La chanson des vieux amants. The French teachers at my secondary school put me in for the Concours de la Chanson, which I promptly (and nearly by accident) won. And all of a sudden, the path opened up for me to become a professional singer or pianist, or at any rate a musician. It led me primarily into the world of classical singing, in opera, lied and oratorio, in which I felt there was much to discover for my further development.
‘But the chanson was never far away. Indeed, at almost each stage of my musical development it appeared to grow with me. (...)’
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