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Chants d'Auvergne (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃ dovɛːʁɲ]; English: Songs from the Auvergne), by Joseph Canteloube, is a collection of folk songs from the Auvergne region of France, arranged for soprano voice and orchestra or piano between 1923 and 1930.
Frederica von Stade: Chants d'Auvergne, Vol. 1 is a 51-minute studio album presenting seventeen of the thirty traditional Auvergnat songs collected and arranged by Joseph Canteloube, performed by von Stade and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Antonio de Almeida. It was released in 1982. [1]
Joseph Canteloube, c.1905. Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (French pronunciation: [maʁi ʒozɛf kɑ̃tlub də malaʁɛ]; 21 October 1879 – 4 November 1957) was a French composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region, Chants d'Auvergne.
Frederica von Stade: Chants d'Auvergne, Vol. 2 & Triptyque is a 60-minute studio album containing thirteen of the thirty traditional Auvergnat songs collected and arranged by Joseph Canteloube, together with a song cycle of his own composition, performed by von Stade and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Antonio de Almeida.
The piece was recovered by the composer Joseph Canteloube between 1923 and 1930 and inserted in the collection Chants d'Auvergne (Songs from Auvergne), [1] where he transcribed it with arrangement for soprano and orchestra.
These influences are reflected in her performance style; a delicate tone, clarity of enunciation, and agility. Her early recording of Joseph Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne is considered by many to be unsurpassed. Her voice is tender, strong, nasal, arch, shy, abandoned, free from vibrato, pure and clean and distinctly un-operatic.
"Malurous qu'o uno fenno" (Auvergne, France) "Lo fiolairé" (Auvergne, France) "Azerbaijan Love Song" (Azerbaijan) The first two of the Folk Songs are not actual folk songs. "Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)" and "I Wonder as I Wander" were both written by the Kentucky folk singer and composer John Jacob Niles. There is a ...
Daurel et Beton, whose putative Old French version is lost; the story is known from an Occitan version of c. 1200; Aigar et Maurin; Aïmer le Chétif, a lost chanson [57] Aiol (13th century) [58] Théséus de Cologne, possibly a romance; Siège d'Antioche; The chansons de geste reached their apogee in the period 1150–1250. [3]