Victoria de los Angeles - Chants d'Auvergne [Songs of the Auvergne]

Joseph Canteloube (Composer), Jean-Pierre Jacquillat (Conductor), Victoria de los Angeles (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Victoria de los Angeles
• Conductor: Jean-Pierre Jacquillat
• Composer: Joseph Canteloube
• Audio CD (October 15, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: EMI Studio DRM
• ASIN: B000002S14
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #300,736 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. La Pastoura als camps (Series I, No.1)

2. Bailero

3. Trois Bourrees (I/3): a) Laio de rotso

4. Trois Bourrees (I/3): b) Ound onoren gorda?

5. Trois Bourrees (I/3): c) Obal, din lou Limouzi

6. L'Antoueno (II/2)

7. La Pastrouletta e lou Chiballe (II/3)

8. La Delaissado (II/4)

9. Lo Calhe (Bourree) (II/5b)

10. Lo Fiolaire (III/1)

11. Passo pel prat (Grande) (III/2)

12. Lou Boussu (III/3)

13. Brezairola (III/4)

14. Malurous qu'o uno fenno (Bouree) (III/5)

15. Oi ayai (IV.2)

16. Pour l'enfant (IV/3)

17. Chut, chut (IV/4)

18. Pastorale (IV/5)

19. Lou Coucut (IV/6)

20. Obal, din lo coumbelo (V/1)

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the soul of rural France, December 31, 2001

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DR. Peter Bourke (Quirindi, N.S.W. Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Victoria de los Angeles - Chants d'Auvergne [Songs of the Auvergne] (Audio CD)

These songs range from love laments to rollicking Bourrees.The spirit of the music is by turns dreamy and sultry to impassioned and tempestuous.The themes are of an idealized rural idyll.So ,it is that they can be debased by an over academic approach that lessens their origins as folk songs.The colourlesness of modern urban life has led to a extravagance of wild emotion in artistic interpretation ,such that the performer rather than the work takes precedence,so that this absolutely fabulous marvelous sublime recording is not as generally so highly regarded as itwas 30 years ago.Victoria de los Angeles voice has the qualities to present these songs as they were originally concieved and at the same time unselfconsciously create high art.Itis her very artlessness that paradoxically succeeds where others fail.She has a true feel for the people and countryside that inspiredthe music.To further judge her comitment to the more earthy origins of art music listen to her play guitar and sing ''ADIOS GRANADA''on The fabulous Victoria de los Angeles-if its getable