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| La Bonne Chanson / Anne Sofie Von Otter, Bengt Forsberg | |||||
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Release Date: 10/15/1996 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Catalog #: 447752 Spars Code: DDD Composer: Gabriel Fauré, Ernest Chausson, Maurice Delage, Camille Saint-Saëns, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Frank Martin Performer: Tomas Gertonsson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg, Nils-Erik Sparf, Ulf Forsberg, Matti Hirvikangas, Mats Lindström, Andreas Alin, Peter Rydström, Per Billman, Ulf Bjurenhed, Lars Paulsson, Lisa Viguier
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Given Anne Sofie von Otter’s fascination with the changing flavours and scents of language, and with blending her light mezzo-soprano into a varied palette of instrumental timbres, it had to be only a matter of time before she recorded a recital of French mélodies with chamber ensemble. Her culminating performance, with pianist Bengt Forsberg and a string quintet of her compatriots, of the song cycle by Fauré which gives this disc its name, is certainly one of the most vibrantly alive and persuasive in the catalogue. Here, indeed, is Verlaine’s ‘L’heure exquise’. The recital starts with Ravel’s Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, in which a long, suede-soft vocal line is sustained over the rustling of string quartet, piccolo and bass clarinet. And then Von Otter’s voice blossoms into Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle, every second passionately engaged, and animated by Bengt Forsberg’s sentient piano-playing. Andreas Alin’s flute dances its way through the winsome Trois chants de Noël by Frank Martin, haunts Saint-Saëns’s Une flûte invisible and is joined by harp, cello-as-sitar, cor anglais, bass clarinet and string quartet for Quatres poèmes hindous, in which von Otter’s mezzo delights in the essentially Gallic sensibility of these seductive settings by Ravel’s pupil Maurice Delage. Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5) -- Hilary Finch, BBC Music Magazine |
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La bonne chanson, Op. 61 by Gabriel Fauré |
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Performer:
Tomas Gertonsson (Double Bass),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano),
Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Nils-Erik Sparf (Violin), Ulf Forsberg (Violin), Matti Hirvikangas (Viola), Mats Lindström (Cello) Period: Romantic Written: 1892-1894; France |
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Date of Recording: 11/1994 Venue: Concert Hall, Stockholm Academy of Music Length: 21 Minutes 58 Secs. Language: French |
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Chanson perpétuelle, Op. 37 by Ernest Chausson |
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Performer:
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano),
Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Ulf Forsberg (Violin),
Matti Hirvikangas (Viola), Mats Lindström (Cello), Nils-Erik Sparf (Violin) Period: Romantic Written: 1898; France |
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Date of Recording: 11/1994 Venue: Concert Hall, Stockholm Academy of Music Length: 6 Minutes 45 Secs. Language: French |
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Poèmes hindous (4) by Maurice Delage |
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Performer:
Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Andreas Alin (Flute),
Peter Rydström (Flute),
Peter Rydström (Piccolo), Per Billman (Bass Clarinet), Ulf Bjurenhed (English Horn), Ulf Bjurenhed (Oboe), Lars Paulsson (Clarinet), Matti Hirvikangas (Viola), Mats Lindström (Cello), Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano), Ulf Forsberg (Violin), Nils-Erik Sparf (Violin), Per Billman (Clarinet), Lisa Viguier (Harp) Period: 20th Century Written: 1913; France |
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Date of Recording: 11/1994 Venue: Concert Hall, Stockholm Academy of Music Length: 8 Minutes 58 Secs. Language: French |
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Une flûte invisible by Camille Saint-Saëns |
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Performer:
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano),
Andreas Alin (Flute),
Bengt Forsberg (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1885; France |
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Date of Recording: 11/1994 Venue: Concert Hall, Stockholm Academy of Music Length: 3 Minutes 3 Secs. Language: French |
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Rapsodie nègre by Francis Poulenc |
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Performer:
Matti Hirvikangas (Viola),
Mats Lindström (Cello),
Ulf Forsberg (Violin),
Nils-Erik Sparf (Violin), Lars Paulsson (Clarinet), Andreas Alin (Flute), Bengt Forsberg (Piano), Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano) Period: 20th Century Written: 1917; France |
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Date of Recording: 11/1994 Venue: Concert Hall, Stockholm Academy of Music Length: 10 Minutes 37 Secs. Language: French |
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Poèmes (3) de Stéphane Mallarmé by Maurice Ravel |
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Performer:
Matti Hirvikangas (Viola),
Ulf Forsberg (Violin),
Nils-Erik Sparf (Violin),
Per Billman (Bass Clarinet), Per Billman (Clarinet), Lars Paulsson (Clarinet), Peter Rydström (Piccolo), Peter Rydström (Flute), Andreas Alin (Flute), Bengt Forsberg (Piano), Mats Lindström (Cello), Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano) Period: 20th Century Written: 1913; France |
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Date of Recording: 11/1994 Venue: Concert Hall, Stockholm Academy of Music Length: 12 Minutes 28 Secs. Language: French |
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Chants (3) de Noël by Frank Martin |
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Performer:
Andreas Alin (Flute),
Bengt Forsberg (Piano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1947; Switzerland |
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Date of Recording: 11/1994 Venue: Concert Hall, Stockholm Academy of Music Length: 4 Minutes 48 Secs. Language: French |
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