Track Listing

1. Op.7, No.1: Apres un reve...
2. Op.46, No.2: Clair de lune...
3. Op.58, No.1: Manoline...
4. Op.83, No. 1: Prison...
5. Op. 23, No.2: Norte Amour...
6. Op.18, No.3: Automne...
7. Op.23, No.3: Le secret...
8. Op. 27, No.1: Chanson d'amour...
9. Op.27, No.1: La fee aux chansons...
10. Op.39, No.2: Fleur jetee...
11. Op.43, No.2: Nocturne...
12. Op.46, No.1: Les presents...
13. 3 Poemes d'un jour, Op.21: Rencontre
14. 3 Poemes d'un jour, Op.21: Toujours
15. 3 Poemes d'un jour, Op.21: Adieu
16. Op.18, No.1: Nell...
17. Op.39, No.4: Les roses d'lspahan...
18. Op.8, No. 1: au bord de l'eau...
19. Op. 23, No.1: Les berceaux...
20. La bonne Chanson, Op.61: I. Une Sainte en son aureole
21. La bonne Chanson, Op.61: II. Pisque l'aube grandit
22. La bonne Chanson, Op.61: III. Lan lune blanche
23. La bonne Chanson, Op.61: IV. J'allais par des chemins perfides
24. La bonne Chanson, Op.61: V. J'ai presque peur, en verite
25. La bonne Chanson, Op.61: VI. Avant que tu ne t'en ailles
26. La bonne Chanson, Op.61: VI. Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'ete
27. La bonne Chanson, Op.61: VII. N'ecst-ce pas?
28. La bonne Chanson, Op.61: VIII. L'hiver a cesse

Product Details

• Released on: 2001-04-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

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Faure is the great 19th-century song writer, a composer with a positive gift for evoking mood or setting an atmosphere with the bare minimum of means, and "La bonne chanson is his song-cycle masterpiece. Anna Russel, the famous comedienne, says that the French art song features "magnificent poetry set to rather wispy music." Well, this certainly doesn't apply to Faure, whose style, though often gentle and seductive, is as substantial as it gets. American soprano Barbara Hendricks is one of the most popular singers in France. She sings the language like a native, and her quicksilver voice, with its characteristic, tight vibrato lends the music an appropriate aura of barely suppressed passion. --David Hurwitz