The Voice of France

Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle (Composer), Leo Delibes (Composer), Georges Bizet (Composer), Jacques Offenbach (Composer), Gabriel Faure (Composer), Henri Duparc (Composer), Fromental Halevy (Composer), Ambroise Thomas (Composer), Camille Saint-Saens (Composer), Charles Gounod (Composer), French Traditional (Composer), Hector Berlioz (Composer), Maurice Ravel (Composer), Francis Poulenc (Composer), Claude Debussy (Composer), Edouard Lalo (Composer), Jules Massenet (Composer), Andre Messager (Composer), Joseph Canteloube (Composer), Daniel Barenboim (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
• Composer: Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Leo Delibes, Georges Bizet, Jacques Offenbach, Gabriel Faure, et al.
• Audio CD (November 12, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Decca
• ASIN: B000075A80
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #271,632 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. La Marseillaise (National Anthem of the French Republic)

2. Lakmé, opera: Dome epais le jasmin (Flower Duet)

3. Carmen, opera: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle

4. Les Pêcheurs de perles, opera in 3 acts: C'est toi... au fond du temple Saint

5. Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts: Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour

6. Après un rêve ('Dans un sommeil'), song for voice & piano, Op. 7/1

7. L'invitation au voyage ('Mon enfant, ma soeur'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra)

8. Cantique de Jean Racine, for 4-part chorus & organ (or orchestra), Op. 11

9. La Juive, opera: Rachel, quand du Seigneur

10. Hamlet, opera in 5 acts: O vin, dissipe la tristesse

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping), lullaby

2. La Périchole, operetta in 2 acts: Air de letter: Mon cher amant

3. Faust, opera: Marthe dieu soit loue... Deposons les armes (Soldier's Chorus)

4. Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48: In Paradisum

5. Les Nuits d'été, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra), H. 81 (Op. 7): Villanelle

6. Roméo et Juliette, opera: Je veux vivre

7. Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, song cycle for voice & orchestra (or piano): Chanson à boire

8. Deux mélodies hébraïques, for voice & piano (or orchestra): L'énigme éternelle

9. Sur le pont d'Avignon, Provençal folk song

10. Phidylé ('L'herbe est molle au sommeil'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra)

See all 21 tracks on this disc

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