Instrumentation : High voice - Pf(Fr.) Those interested in French music have often had reason to be grateful to Roger Nichols; his writings on Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen and Poulenc are indispensable to the music lover. Nichols now turns his attentions to the mélodie, where it is his mission to encourage singers to explore beyond the well-trodden paths of French song. In these two anthologies he does not ignore masterpieces by composers of the stature of Fauré and Duparc, but sets them alongside music - almost impossible to find elsewhere in print - by such under-estimated figures as Reber, Viardot, Massé and Paladilhe. Even the more celebrated songs are often not easily found in practical editions, which makes this selection an ideal starting point for wider exploration. In each of these volumes the songs appear in the chronological order of their composer's birth, but Nichols somehow contrives a line-up of music which seems delightfully arbitrary at the same time as carefully designed to enrich everyone's understanding of the mélodie. The books also contain a remarkable amount of scholarship, lightly worn and pithily expressed. As well as complete translations of the songs, there is a useful and concise introduction on singing in French, together with an illuminating historical note and critical commentary; and Nichols gives full due to the poets who were of crucial importance in the development of the mélodie tradition. Graham Johnson Content : Niedermeyer:Le Lac (Meditation poétique);Berlioz:Absence;Gounod:Ô ma belle rebelle;Viardot: Fleur desséchée; Franck: S'il est un charmant gazon; Massé: Consolation;Lalo: Ballade à la lune; Saint-Saëns: La sérénité;Delibes: Chanson espagnole; Bizet: Pastorale; Massenet: Nuit d'Espagne; Chabrier: L'île heureuse; Paladilhe: Sérénité de la nuit; Fauré: Lydia; Fauré: Après un rêve; Duparc: Extase; Chausson: Le colibri; Debussy: Mandoline; Debussy: C'est l'extase langoureuse; Satie: Daphénéo; Satie: Spleen; Séverac: Ma poupée chérie; Dupont: Chanson des noisettes; Poulenc: La Grenouillère Editor :Nichols

Description Songs Of Claude Debussy Volume I: High Voice This edition presents 62 of Debussy's songs in two volumes. Songlist [Unknown] Aimons-nous Et Dormons Apparition Ariettes Oubilees: Beau Soir C'est L'extase Langoureuse Chevaux De Bois Cinq Poemes De Charles Baudelaire: Clair De Lune En Sourdine Fantoches Fete Galante Fetes Galantes Pour Madame Vasnier: Fleur Des Bles Green Harmonie Du Soir Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur Jane La Belle Au Bois Dormant La Mort Des Amants Le Balcon Le Jet D'eau L'ombre Des Arbres Mandoline Nuit D'etoiles Pantomine Paysage Sentimental Pierrot Recit Et Air De Lia (From L'enfant Prodique) Recueillement Rondeau Spleen Trois Melodies: Voici Que Le Printemps Zephyr