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Francis Poulenc's late opera La voix humaine (1958) seems ideally suited to the age of cellular telephony, and indeed, it is showing signs of revival with several new productions. This 2023 recording by soprano Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann and the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia should contribute to the trend. La voix humaine is an operatic monodrama, but of a modern kind; the single character is a woman, simply named Elle (She), talking on the phone, being dumped by her boyfriend, and hinting at suicide. The text was written by Jean Cocteau in 1930, when dropped phone calls were no doubt common, but it works perfectly in a contemporary setting; the phone conversation is interrupted by panicky "Allô allô" interjections. Poulenc's musical language for dealing with this text is remarkable, and it is not like that in any of his other compositions. The singer is unaccompanied when she is directly addressing her hearer, while the passages in which she narrates events are accompanied by the orchestra. This creates an uncanny impression of an actual phone conversation. Poulenc's harmonic language here is quite modern in comparison to his other works, not quite atonal but shorn of the popular tinge present in so much of his work. Cherrier-Hoffmann's performance is appropriately stressed out, and she is shown in the graphics with her hands splayed across a window as if trapped. Conductor Frédéric Chaslin emphasizes the orchestra's big, operatic sound, and this works; the engineering makes no attempt to disguise the opera house acoustic. Chaslin also contributes orchestrations of smaller Poulenc voice-and-piano works; these frame the opera and return the listener to the usual Poulenc world. This is an unusually satisfying Poulenc release and a fine performance of a work whose reputation is on the way up.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
La voix humaine, FP 171 (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101 (Transc. for Soprano and Orchestra by Frédéric Chaslin) (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist - Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra, MainArtist - Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
Albumbeschreibung
Francis Poulenc's late opera La voix humaine (1958) seems ideally suited to the age of cellular telephony, and indeed, it is showing signs of revival with several new productions. This 2023 recording by soprano Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann and the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia should contribute to the trend. La voix humaine is an operatic monodrama, but of a modern kind; the single character is a woman, simply named Elle (She), talking on the phone, being dumped by her boyfriend, and hinting at suicide. The text was written by Jean Cocteau in 1930, when dropped phone calls were no doubt common, but it works perfectly in a contemporary setting; the phone conversation is interrupted by panicky "Allô allô" interjections. Poulenc's musical language for dealing with this text is remarkable, and it is not like that in any of his other compositions. The singer is unaccompanied when she is directly addressing her hearer, while the passages in which she narrates events are accompanied by the orchestra. This creates an uncanny impression of an actual phone conversation. Poulenc's harmonic language here is quite modern in comparison to his other works, not quite atonal but shorn of the popular tinge present in so much of his work. Cherrier-Hoffmann's performance is appropriately stressed out, and she is shown in the graphics with her hands splayed across a window as if trapped. Conductor Frédéric Chaslin emphasizes the orchestra's big, operatic sound, and this works; the engineering makes no attempt to disguise the opera house acoustic. Chaslin also contributes orchestrations of smaller Poulenc voice-and-piano works; these frame the opera and return the listener to the usual Poulenc world. This is an unusually satisfying Poulenc release and a fine performance of a work whose reputation is on the way up.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 28 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:38
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia Frédéric Chaslin
- Composer: Francis Poulenc
- Label: Aparté
- Genre: Klassiek Opera
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Frédéric Chaslin
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