Poulenc: Mélodies 1939-1961: 'Poulenc et ses Poètes'

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Release Date: 26th Jul 2019
Catalogue No: 95814
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 77 minutes

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Poulenc: Calligrammes

Work length11:14

$7.00

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Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano)

No. 1, L'espionne

Track length1:38

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No. 2, Mutation

Track length0:42

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No. 3, Vers le sud

Track length1:45

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No. 4, Il pleut

Track length1:16

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No. 5, La grace exilee

Track length0:40

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No. 6, Aussi bien que les cigales

Track length2:08

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No. 7, Voyage

Track length3:05

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Poulenc: Poemes (2) de Louis Aragon, FP 122

Work length3:54

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Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano)

No. 1, C

Track length2:46

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No. 2, Fêtes galantes

Track length1:08

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Poulenc: Le travail du peintre

Work length12:43

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Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano)

No. 1, Pablo Picasso

Track length2:46

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No. 2, Marc Chagall

Track length1:08

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No. 3, Georges Braque

Track length1:26

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No. 4, Juan Gris

Track length2:17

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No. 5, Paul Klee

Track length0:49

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No. 6, Joan Miro

Track length1:44

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No. 7, Jacques Villon

Track length2:33

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Poulenc: Dernier poeme

Work length2:05

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Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano)

Poulenc: La Fraîcheur et le feu

Work length8:25

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Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano)

No. 1, Rayons des yeux

Track length1:09

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No. 2, Le matin les branches attisent

Track length0:59

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No. 3, Tout disparut

Track length1:30

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No. 4, Dans les tenebres du jardin

Track length0:29

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No. 5, Unis la fraicheur et le feu

Track length1:19

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No. 6, Homme au sourire tendre

Track length2:00

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No. 7, La grande riviere qui va

Track length0:59

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Poulenc: Trois Chansons de F.Garcia-Lorca

Work length4:44

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Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano)

No. 1, L'enfant muet

Track length1:36

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No. 2, Adelina a la promenade

Track length0:44

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No. 3, Chanson de l'oranger sec

Track length2:24

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Poulenc: La courte paille

Work length10:38

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Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano)

No. 1, Le sommeil

Track length2:12

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No. 2, Quelle aventure!

Track length0:59

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No. 3, La reine du coeur

Track length1:39

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No. 4, Ba, be, bi, bo, bu

Track length0:29

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No. 5, Les anges musiciens

Track length1:26

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No. 6, La carafon

Track length1:04

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No. 7, Lune d'avril

Track length2:49

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Poulenc: Les chemins de l'amour

Work length3:39

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Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano)

Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP101

Work length12:49

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Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano)

No. 1, La dame d'Andre

Track length1:35

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No. 2, Dans l'herbe

Track length2:08

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No. 3, Il vole

Track length1:54

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No. 4, Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant

Track length2:50

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No. 5, Violon

Track length1:53

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No. 6, Fleurs

Track length2:29

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Poulenc: La Dame de Monte Carlo

Work length7:02

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Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano)

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Poulenc once declared that ‘the musical transposition of a poem must be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.’ By the age of four he was already able to recite Mallarmé’s Apparition by heart, and while still very young he made his first efforts at setting verses to music. He loved listening to poets read their own work, and he was a voracious reader, who saw his purpose as a composer to embellish to enrich but never to obscure the words or their meaning.

Poulenc loved singers and good singing as much as poetry. All these cycles were written with particular artists in mind; several of them for his life partner, the baritone Pierre Bernac, but he also worked very closely with Clare Croiza and Denise Duval, among others. Thus his vocal lines reflect their individual personalities while being couched in his own, very singable, jazz-inflected idiom.

Valentina Coladonato has chosen a path less travelled through Poulenc’s song oeuvre, avoiding the Chansons villageoises and Air chantés. Yet in La Fraîcheur et le feu, setting Poulenc’s contemporary Paul Eluard, we find an intensity and urgency of expression to rival his masterpiece, the Dialogues of the Carmelites. Motifs from the opera recur in another Eluard cycle, Le travail du peintre, which addresses seven modern painters in turn from Picasso to Villon.

A bittersweet air lingers over the Dernier poème by Desnos, Aragon’s C and the monologue La dame de Monte Carlo; but his extrovert, amusing music-hall side comes to the fore in Les chemins de l’amour, based on Jean Anouilh’s Léocadia and dedicated to Yvonne Printemps, who was a singer of light music. Even within the same cycle there are contrasting moments that eloquently illustrate Poulenc’s own artistic credo: ‘My music is my portrait’.

A specialist in early and new music, the soprano Valentina Coladonato has worked with conductors including Riccardo Muti and Claudio Abbado. She and Claudio Proietti have also recorded the Shakespeare Sonnets of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Poulenc: Mélodies 1939-1961

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