César Franck's Complete Songs and Duets

Bru Zane Label CDs
César Franck
Tassis Christoyannis baritone
Véronique Gens soprano
Jeff Cohen piano
'French song' | BZ 2003
25/03/2022
2 CDs - 102 pages

The alluring voices of Tassis Christoyannis and Véronique Gens immerse the listener in the atmosphere of the nineteenth-century Parisian salons and the mélodies performed there. The composer and organist César Franck, famed for his instrumental music, proves himself equally skilled in setting poems by Musset, Hugo, Chateaubriand, Daudet and Dumas. This first complete recording of his works for voice and piano ranges over his entire creative life.

Recorded at the Palazzetto Bru Zane in April and October 2021.
The Palazzetto Bru Zane would like to thank Jean-Philippe Navarre and Les Presses du Collège Musical.


Texts in English, French and German – Sung texts in French and English
Articles by Alexandre Dratwicki and Jean-Philippe Navarre

Tracklist

CD 1

1- Les Cloches du soir (1889)
2- Nocturne (1884)
3- Le Vase brisé (1879)
4- Roses et Papillons (c.1860)
5- Le Mariage des roses (c.1873)
6- L’Émir de Bengador (c.1847)
7- Ninon (1851)
8- Lied (c.1874)
9- Robin Gray (1843)
10- S’il est un charmant gazon (1847?)
11- S’il est un charmant gazon (1857)
12- Aimer (1849)

Six Duos (1888)
13- La Chanson du vannier (Duet no.6)
14- L’Ange gardien (Duet no.1)
15- Aux petits enfants (Duet no.2)
16- La Vierge à la crèche (Duet no.3)
17- Les Danses de Lormont (Duet no.4)
18- Soleil (Duet no.5)

CD 2

1- L’Ange et l’Enfant (1846)
2- Passez ! passez toujours ! (c.1860)
3- Souvenance (1846)
4- Pour les victimes (1887)
5- Paris (1870)
6- Patria (1871)
7- Les Trois Exilés (1848)
8- À cette terre où l’on ploie sa tente (1847)
9- Le Sylphe (1843) with Enrico Graziani, cellist
10- La Procession (1889)

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