Songs of Debussy & Faure [Import, Original recording reissued]

Valente (Artist), Artymiw (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 30, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording reissued
• Label: Centaur
• ASIN: B0000057XK
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #862,383 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Beau soir ('Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses'), song for voice & piano, L. 6

2. Mandoline ('Les donneurs de sérénades'), song for voice & piano, L. 29

3. Pantomime ('Pierrot qui n'a rien d'un Clitandre'), song for voice & piano, L. 31

4. Clair de lune ('Votre âme est un paysage choisi'), song for voice & piano, L. 32

5. Pierrot ('Le bon Pierrot que la foule contemple'), song for voice & piano, L. 15

6. Apparition ('La lune s'attristait'), song for voice & piano, L. 53

7. Ariettes oubliées (6), song cycle for voice & piano, L. 60: I. C'est L'extase langoureuse

8. Ariettes oubliées (6), song cycle for voice & piano, L. 60: II. Il pleure dans mon coeur

9. Ariettes oubliées (6), song cycle for voice & piano, L. 60: III. L'Ombre des Arbres

10. Ariettes oubliées (6), song cycle for voice & piano, L. 60: Chevaux de Bois

11. Ariettes oubliées (6), song cycle for voice & piano, L. 60: Aquarelles I. Green

12. Ariettes oubliées (6), song cycle for voice & piano, L. 60: Aquarelles II. Spleen

13. Fêtes galantes (3), song cycle for voice & piano, Set I, L. 80: En Sourdine

14. Fêtes galantes (3), song cycle for voice & piano, Set I, L. 80: Clair de Lune

15. Fêtes galantes (3), song cycle for voice & piano, Set I, L. 80: Fantoches

16. Songs (3) for voice & piano, Op. 23: No. 1. Les Berceaux

17. Songs (3) for voice & piano, Op. 23: No. 2. Notre amour

18. Songs (3) for voice & piano, Op. 23: No. 3. Le Secret

19. Clair de lune, song for voice & piano (or orchestra) in B flat minor, Op. 46/2

20. Spleen, for voice & piano in D minor, Op. 51/3

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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This review is from: Songs of Debussy & Faure (Audio CD)

'Songs of Debussy and Faure' by soprano Benita Valente, with piano by Lydia Artymiw will not shake any foundations, but it is long cool drink of water after listening to a run of late 19th century Lieder. Now I love Schubert's Lieder as much or more than the next Deutchophile, but there are simply just so many works based on the sweet sounding poems of Goethe and Heine to go around. I will argue until the cows come home that in hands like these, German, when properly pronounced, is as fine a vehicle for Romantic art as its southern 'Romance Language' neighbors. But you still can't beat French for sounding sweet, regardless of what is being said.

And, while Debussy is known well enough, this album gives Faure equal time, and it shows that he deserves it.