Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, Frédéric Chaslin, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia
AP320 - 1CD - 59' - Sep 22, 2023
In 1958 Poulenc composed La voix humaine, a one-act opera for soprano and orchestra, based on the monodrama of the same name, written for the Comédie-Française by his friend Jean Cocteau. In this staging of the end of an amorous relationship, we hear only the woman’s side of a final telephone conversation with the man who has abandoned her. The orchestra in this innovative work is used not only to unify the composition, but also to reveal what the voice, laid bare by a moving parlé-chanté style, does not say.
Fiançailles pour rire and Chemins de l’amour, usually for voice and piano, but presented here in an orchestrated version by one of our finest conductors, Frédéric Chaslin, completes this eloquent rendition of works of a bittersweetness that Poulenc transcends like no other.
FRANCIS POULENC
1. Les chemins de l’amour FP 106 orchestration Frédéric Chaslin
2-22. La Voix humaine FP 171
Fiançailles pour rire FP 101 orchestration Frédéric Chaslin
23. La dame d’André
24. Dans l’herbe
25. Il vole
26. Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant
27. Violon
28. Fleurs
