Aurore

SKU: HL.48187874

Francois Adrien Boieldieu: Ouverture de 'Ma Tante Aurore' (PH273) (Orchestra).

SKU: HL.48182570

UPC: 888680833251. 7.25x10.5x0.142 inches.

Jean Meyer: Hymne a l'Aurore (Septet-Brass).

SKU: CA.927900

ISBN 9790007299316. Key: G major. French. Text: Silvestre, Armand.

Over three verses, Aurore describes the approaching dawn through an intensifying piano accompaniment: shining out like fading stars, the short quarter notes in the first verse in G major give way in the second verse to a rippling sixteenth note accompaniment in the minor key. Shimmering harmonies allow the first rays of sun to shine in glistening drops of dew, and the dreams escape “like a light swarm”. The third verse returns to the key of G major, full of promise: the new day awakens with its promise of love and beauty.

This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.

SKU: LM.GD1537

ISBN 9790231705263.

Berceuse - Boogie-Woogie - Meditation - Aurore - Boite a musique - Menuet - Jeux - Au bal - Melodie - Valsette - Romance - Priere.

SKU: HL.48186778

UPC: 888680874636. 9.0x12.0x0.064 inches.

Faure Gabriel Aurore Soprano & Piano Book.

SKU: HL.48183445

UPC: 888680871567. 5.0x7.0x1.18 inches.

Antoine Golea: La Musique de la Nuit des Temps aux Aurores Vol.1 (Book).

SKU: RM.CP8506

ISBN 9790232685069.

SKU: CY.CC2718

The Chants du Rhin (Songs of the Rhine), a cycle of six pieces, based on poems by Joseph Mery, were written in 1865, and Bizet performed two of them on 16 April 1866 at a soiree of the Beaujolais Philharmonic Society. The songs are grouped symmetrically around La bohemienne as the central piece, framed by two meditatively yearning pieces (in E and D flat major) and two vividly exuberant ones (similarly in E and D flat major), with L'aurore serving as an introduction.

In this cycle Bizet takes up the theme of the gypsy girl which had already entered European music in the operas The Bohemian Girl by the Irish composer Michael William Balfe and Verdi's Il trovatore, as well as in Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies for piano. Bizet will return to it one year later in La jolie fille de Perth and ten years later in Carmen. The fourth piece Les confidences shows similarities in tonality, structure and motifs to the middle part of the third movement of Chopin's Sonata in B minor.