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Gabriel Faure, Michel Dalberto, Barbara Hendricks
Gabriel Fauré: Mélodies / Barbara Hendricks
Genres: Pop, Classical

Track Listings (28) - Disc #1
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

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CD Details

All Artists: Gabriel Faure, Michel Dalberto, Barbara Hendricks, Charles Grandmougin
Title: Gabriel Fauré: Mélodies / Barbara Hendricks
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI
Original Release Date: 1/1/1989
Re-Release Date: 8/5/2002
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 077774984126

Synopsis

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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

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CD Reviews

She's good, very good

Amadeus 888 | London | 01/16/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Some critics have said that her vocal capabilities are limited. To be quite honest, I don't know if that's true or not, but whatever gifts God has given her, she exploits them to the full. This is a very good recital of Faure's songs, one of the best I've heard in fact (and I've heard quite a few.)

Dalberto is also very good.

Yes, highly recommended.

"

Indispensable

L. Gallagher | Los Angeles, CA United States | 09/28/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a lovely recital -- Hendricks at the height of her powers, singing music she was born to sing, idiomatically and with a gorgeous shimmer to the voice and insinuating inflections that convey Faure's quite particular combination of chaste reserve and sensuality. The famous cycle "La bonne Chanson" may not have all the textual acuity of its recorded rivals, but Hendricks' version of "Les roses d'Ispahan" is worth the price of the disk many times over."