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Ade

French Music - Released September 23, 2022 | tôt Ou tard

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Poulenc: La voix humaine

Véronique Gens

Classical - Released January 13, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine ("The Human Voice") is a one-woman opera, less than an hour long, about a woman on the phone with her boyfriend as they break up. Set to a text by Jean Cocteau, it puts the woman through strong mood swings. (Country music fans may wish to compare it to As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone, although there, the boyfriend is present to deliver the final blow.) Soprano Véronique Gens is best known for music from the 17th century up to Mozart, but it is easy to believe the claim in the publicity materials for this release that she had always wanted to record this work; its direct, conversational quality, interspersed with occasional freakouts, fits her manner beautifully. It might seem that those freakouts require a bit more intensity than Gens gives them here, but that is not really in the Cocteau spirit and certainly not in the Poulenc spirit. Gens receives sensitive support from the Orchestre National de Lille under Alexandre Bloch, who also ring down the curtain with a lithe performance of the joyous Sinfonietta. There are other strong performances of Poulenc's little opera, which ought to be much more frequently heard and would be ideal for university voice programs, but this one is instantly appealing and quite memorable, and it is no surprise that it made classical best-seller charts in early 2023. © James Manheim /TiVo
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Poulenc: La Voix humaine, Fiançailles pour rire

Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann

Opera - Released September 22, 2023 | Aparté

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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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Kaija Saariaho : La Passion de Simone

Dawn Upshaw

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released March 5, 2013 | Ondine

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Shy'm

French Music - Released May 7, 2012 | Warner (France)

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Alors la zone

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Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 8, 2021 | D'Or et de Platine

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Montagnes Russes : Menu XL

Lujipeka

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released February 3, 2023 | Universal Music Division Romance Musique

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Cool Frénésie

Les Rita Mitsouko

Rock - Released March 7, 2000 | SIX SARL

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La balade du poète

Serge Lama

French Music - Released November 30, 2012 | Warner (France)

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Capri C'Est Fini

Hervé Vilard

Pop - Released January 1, 1965 | Universal Music Division Capitol Music France

Au masculin

Amandine Bourgeois

French Music - Released May 5, 2014 | Warner (France)

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Prokofiev : Pierre et le loup - Symphonie Classique - Marche Op.99 - Overture Op.34

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Symphonic Music - Released January 1, 1990 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Rendez-vous

Joseph Kamel

French Music - Released June 3, 2022 | Columbia

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J'en ai marre (Part. 1)

Hugues Le Bars

Alternative & Indie - Released January 17, 2000 | Hugues Le Bars

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La vie est simple

Felhur x Andro

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 4, 2021 | Libertalia Music

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Offenbach: Pomme d'api & Trafalgar (Sur un volcan)

Die Kölner Akademie

Opera - Released August 7, 2020 | CPO

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La vraie vie

Bigflo & Oli

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 23, 2017 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Joe Dassin

Joe Dassin

French Music - Released November 22, 1975 | Columbia

My World

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Miscellaneous - Released December 4, 2015 | D'Or et de Platine

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My World

Jul

Miscellaneous - Released December 4, 2015 | D'Or et de Platine