A French Song Companion
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- Synopsis
- This is the most comprehensive book of French mélodie (French art-song) in any language. Graham Johnson, a noted authority on song, provides repertoire guides to the work of some 150 composers who have written French vocal music. There are major articles on such figures as Fauré, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc; substantial articles on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie; and reassessments of such composers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney. The biographical articles are supplemented by the song translations of Richard Stokes, some 700 in all, and a veritable treasury of great French poetry from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. These are indispensable to music lovers, concert-goers, and professional singers and their accompanists. Graham Johnson is one of the most distinguished vocal accompanists of our time. Recital appearances with many great singers--from Schwarzkopf and De los Angeles to Margaret Price and Christine Schäfer, from Peter Pears to Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Peter Schreier, and Ian Bostridge, from François Le Roux to Thomas Hampson and Matthias Goerne--have been supplemented by a prodigious recording career: the complete Schubert Lieder on 37 CDs for Hyperion, with a similar exhaustive Schumann project already underway; an ongoing edition of French song recordings, also for Hyperion; numerous recordings of English song composers (recently Britten and John Ireland); duet recitals with Felicity Lott and Ann Murray (on EMI); and discs of songs by such composers as Dvorák, Janácek, Martinu, and Musorgsky. Richard Stokes, the translator of the songs, teaches languages at Westminster School, London, coaches singers in the interpretation of Lieder, and gives frequent lectures on song composers. He is the co-author of books on German and Spanish song (The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder and The Spanish Song Companion) and has just published J. S. Bach--The Complete Church and Secular Cantatas (Long Barn Books). Below each line of French is a line of English translation. In addition, DAISY markup sets each composer at level 1 and each song at level 2, facilitating navigation through the book. The web site Hyperion-Records.co.uk contains pdf files of the many booklets of songs and commentary produced by Graham Johnson and Richard Stokes, free for downloading, including the complete Schubert songs and many of the song composers listed above.
- Copyright:
- 2000
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 530 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780198164104
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 03/07/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Graham Johnson, Richard Stokes
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Reference, Poetry, Music
- Submitted By:
- Terry Gorman
- Proofread By:
- Terry Gorman
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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