Chanson triste Chorale SATB SATB, Piano - Intermédiaire Carus Verlag
SSATB Choir, Piano - Level 3 SKU: CA.925100 Composed by Henri Duparc. Arr...(+)
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).
La vie anterieure Chorale SATB SATB, Piano - Intermédiaire Carus Verlag
SSATB Choir, Piano - Level 3 SKU: CA.925000 Composed by Henri Duparc. Arr...(+)
SSATB Choir, Piano -
Level 3
SKU:
CA.925000
Composed by
Henri Duparc. Arranged by
Denis Rouger. Separate
edition to the CD.
Lieder, Secular choral
music. Full Score.
Duration 5 minutes. Carus
Verlag #CV 09.250/00.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.925000).
ISBN
M-007-24902-1. Key: E
flat major. Language:
French. Text: Baudelaire,
Charles.
The
harmonic turns and piano
configurations in La vie
anterieure - the former
life - seem almost
exuberantly lyrical. At
the beginning, the
archaic sounds and words
of the male choir conjure
up a dream world that is
soon flooded with the
power of the waves and
the rich polyphonic
harmony of the choir and
the piano. With the
outcry C'est la que j'ai
vecu! [I have lived
there] which expresses
the fervent yearning to
return to a past life,
the collective
desperately reinforces
the longing for the past.
Once more, the women's
choir conjures up this
lost paradise in an
undulating soft sound
before the desolate
sadness is pierced by the
power of the music of the
piano postlude, creating
a moment that is
completely in the
present.
SSATB chorus, piano - Grade 3 SKU: CA.928200 Composed by Henri Duparc. Ar...(+)
SSATB chorus, piano -
Grade 3
SKU:
CA.928200
Composed by
Henri Duparc. Arranged by
Denis Rouger. Carus
digital: Notenausgabe als
PDF. Full Score. Composed
1880. Duration 5 minutes.
Carus Verlag #928200.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.928200).
ISBN
9790007300869. Key: C
minor / c major. French.
Text: Baudelaire,
Charles.
Sounds,
colors and scents can
conjure up places of
longing. During the
Romantic period, the
desire to travel and see
other places was seen as
an expression of some
inner state of mind. In
L'invitation au voyage,
the boundaries between
what is real and
imaginary seem to
dissolve in the lyrical
perception of a journey
to the inner self: There
we find nothing but order
and beauty, splendor,
peace, and
delightâ€. This is
unattainable perfection
as a place of longing,
where we are freed from
all earthly cares. A
never-ending
sixteenth-note figure in
the piano accompaniment
flickers like a
shimmering veil over
these words, which in
their poetry seem to
remove us far from our
earthly existence.
“The world falls
asleep in a warm
light!
This art
song was originally
composed not for chamber
choir, but for solo voice
and piano. Denis Rouger
has carefully adapted it
to suit the requirements
and expressive
possibilities offered by
a larger ensemble,
without losing any of the
qualities of the
original. Each part in
the choir has a melodic
line drawn from the
harmonic and rhythmic
framework. In the
process, the variety and
refinement of the choral
language combines with an
enormous flexibility in
form and expression, as
French melodies or German
art songs demand from a
soloist and
pianist.
The songs
have been recorded by the
figure humaine chamber
choir on the CD ... wo
die Zitronen blühn
(Carus 83.514).