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This release showed up on classical best-seller charts in the late summer of 2023, perhaps because it represented a genuinely original experiment. Mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d'Oustrac, the small ensemble Le Poème Harmonique, and conductor and theorbist suggest... well, what, exactly? That there is an affinity between French popular song and French and Italian music of the 17th century? Not quite, although there were intriguing connections between popular song, outlined in the booklet, and the very earliest stages of the historical performance movement at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. The program is organized into three sections, "Jeunesse," "Les vieux airs," and "Les amours passées," but the 20th century songs and the 17th century pieces mostly don't overlap within these groups; "Les amours passées" are all popular songs. The program makes quite a lurch between an excerpt from Cavalli's L'Egisto and Paul Marinier's D'elle à lui, and the lurch would have been even greater if the popular songs hadn't been chosen to exclude any hints of African-American-influenced song. Léon Fossey's Les canards tyroliens, a kind of yodeling song about ducks, simply doesn't inhabit the same universe as Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna. Perhaps it would be best to say, as the publicity does, that there are "echoes" between the two traditions, and d'Oustrac plainly has enthusiasm for both repertories; her personality is largely enough to carry the listener through. There is definitely a need for programming and performance that mixes classical and popular material, which have never been as far apart as they have been made out to be. This release may not be a definitive solution, but it is an intriguing and listenable attempt.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Louis Poterat, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Ted Grouya, Composer - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist - Henri Le Pointe, Lyricist - Georges Martine, Composer
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Marin Marais, Composer - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Anonymous, Composer, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Anonymous, Composer, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist - Johann Vierdanck, Composer
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Ottavio Rinuccini, Lyricist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Francesco Cavalli, Composer - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist - Giovanni Faustini, Lyricist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Paul Marinier, Composer, Lyricist - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Paul Delmet, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Maurice Vaucaire, Lyricist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Maurice Vandair, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist - Charles André Cachan, Composer
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Raymond Legrand, Composer - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist - Guy Breton, Lyricist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist - Léon Fossey, Composer - Mlle Thérésa, Composer - Hippolyte Cogniard, Lyricist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist - Ralph Carcel, Composer - Henri Cor, Lyricist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Emile Carrara, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Soloist, MainArtist - Léon Agel, Lyricist - Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble, MainArtist - Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Albumbeschreibung
This release showed up on classical best-seller charts in the late summer of 2023, perhaps because it represented a genuinely original experiment. Mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d'Oustrac, the small ensemble Le Poème Harmonique, and conductor and theorbist suggest... well, what, exactly? That there is an affinity between French popular song and French and Italian music of the 17th century? Not quite, although there were intriguing connections between popular song, outlined in the booklet, and the very earliest stages of the historical performance movement at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. The program is organized into three sections, "Jeunesse," "Les vieux airs," and "Les amours passées," but the 20th century songs and the 17th century pieces mostly don't overlap within these groups; "Les amours passées" are all popular songs. The program makes quite a lurch between an excerpt from Cavalli's L'Egisto and Paul Marinier's D'elle à lui, and the lurch would have been even greater if the popular songs hadn't been chosen to exclude any hints of African-American-influenced song. Léon Fossey's Les canards tyroliens, a kind of yodeling song about ducks, simply doesn't inhabit the same universe as Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna. Perhaps it would be best to say, as the publicity does, that there are "echoes" between the two traditions, and d'Oustrac plainly has enthusiasm for both repertories; her personality is largely enough to carry the listener through. There is definitely a need for programming and performance that mixes classical and popular material, which have never been as far apart as they have been made out to be. This release may not be a definitive solution, but it is an intriguing and listenable attempt.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:26
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Le Poème Harmonique Stéphanie d'Oustrac Vincent Dumestre
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Klassiek
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Le Poème Harmonique & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
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