Mel Bonis: L'oeuvre vocale [Import]

Melanie Bonis (Composer), Astrid Pfarrer (Performer), Brigitte Balleys (Performer), Eric Ceranlola (Performer), Valerie Gabail (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Astrid Pfarrer, Brigitte Balleys, Eric Ceranlola, Valerie Gabail
• Composer: Melanie Bonis
• Audio CD (April 25, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Doron
• ASIN: B000F6ZOC8
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #829,546 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pourriez vous pas me dire (Can't You Tell Me), for voice & piano, Op. 55

2. Sur la plage (On the Beach), for voice & piano, Op. 3

3. Viens (Come), for voice & piano, Op. 6

4. Villanelle, for voice & piano, Op. 4

5. Viola, for voice & piano

6. Sauvez-moi (Save Me), for voice & piano

7. Songe (Dream), for voice & piano

8. Le chat sur le toit (The Cat on the Roof), for voice & piano, Op. 93

9. Madrigal, for 3 voices & piano, Op. 53

10. Epithalame (Epithalamium), for 3 voices & piano, Op. 75

11. Le ruisseau (The Brook), for 2 voices & piano, Op. 21

12. Dès l'aube (At Dawn), for voice & piano, Op. 18

13. Mirage, for voice & piano, Op. 171

14. Chanson d'amour (Song of Love), for voice & piano, Op. 94

15. Sorrente, for voice & piano, Op. 61

16. La Mer (The Sea), for voice & piano, Op. 58 (after an Italian melody)

17. Reproche tendre (A Tender Reproof), for voice & piano, Op. 49

18. Immortelle tendresse (Eternal Tenderness), for voice & piano, Op. 88

19. Elève toi, mon âme (Arise, My Soul), for voice & cello, Op. 22

20. Noël pastoral (A Pastoral Christmas), for voice & piano, Op. 20

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars An intriguing composer, September 17, 2010

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John Michael Barone "jmb" (Saint Paul, Minnesota United States) - See all my reviews
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The story of Mel Bonis is worthy of a melodrama, or a TV series...musical prodigy, private pupil of Cesar Franck, withdrawn from the Conservatoire because her parents disapproved of a boyfriend and married off to an older man, a later realignment with the 'boyfriend' (now an established singer and critic) resulting in an illegitimate child, the resurgence of her musical creativity. The performances here are only semi-professional, but the music is of more than passing curiosity.

4.0 out of 5 stars Fragrance of Faure, November 4, 2011

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Peter P. Fuchs (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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If you like the melodies of Faure, you will like this CD. In a certain mood I love listening to an hour or so of Faure lieder, and Bonis' works have the same effect, but naturally, not nearly so great as his greatest. She studied with Franck but the feeling is the fragrance of Faure. The other reviewer's view that these performances are only semi-professional, seems silly to me. Many famous professionals are given to sliding up and down to notes. Here the charm comes through because they hit the notes right on pitch. Perhaps the reviewer says that because the performances are not very dramatic. There is indeed no great drama, but that fits the music. Similarly, would you ask for drama out of a Mary Cassat painting of a woman with a baby. The same here. Get real aesthetically.