SSATB Choir, Piano -
Level 3
SKU:
CA.925100
Composed by
Henri Duparc. Arranged by
Denis Rouger. Separate
edition to the CD.
Lieder, Secular choral
music. Full Score. 2.4.
Duration 3 minutes. Carus
Verlag #CV 09.251/00.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.925100).
ISBN
M-007-24913-7. Key: E
flat major. Language:
French. Text: Lahor,
Jean.
The few works
which Henri Duparc
composed and left to
posterity display a deep
preoccupation with grief
and pain, coupled with a
great fear of loneliness.
His Chanson triste (Sad
Song), composed in 1868
or 1869, was one such
work. Duparc treasured it
so much that he made an
orchestral version of it
in 1912. He set texts by
contemporary French poets
such as Charles
Baudelaire, Sully
Prudhomme, and Henri
Cazalis, who wrote under
the pseudonym Jean Lahor.
Denis Rouger, founder and
director of the figure
humaine chamber choir,
has arranged art songs
for solo voice and piano
for his ensemble, in the
process carefully
adapting these to the
needs and expressive
possibilities offered by
a larger ensemble. Music
edition for the
successful CD Kennst du
das Land... (Carus
83.495).
