That BaÃ¯lÃ¨ro, a shepherd's song from the highlands of Auvergne sung in the Occitan dialect of the area, should become a favorite with singers ranging from Victoria de los Angeles to Sarah Brightman by way of RenÃ©e Fleming and Karita Mattila, is all because of Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret. As a budding composer in Paris in the 1900s, Canteloube was unable to interest himself in the various musical cliques and currents. Instead he looked for inspiration in Auvergne in central France where he was born, starting to collect the songs of the farmers and shepherds that lived in the mountainous region. But he did so as a composer rather than a musicologist, and between 1923 and 1954 he published a total of thirty Chants d'Auvergne, arranged, harmonized and sumptuously orchestrated. The result is, one might say, idealized folk music: Canteloube largely respects the melodic line of the originals, but adds instrumental introductions, interludes and postludes, and gives an important role to the woodwind section. For the present disc, Carolyn Sampson and Pascal RophÃ© have selected 25 of the songs - ranging from love songs and lullabies to working songs and laments. They perform them together with Tapiola Sinfonietta, bringing sparkle to Canteloube's luxurious scores halfway between the impressionism of Debussy and the bucolic lyricism of d'Indy.

Tracklist:

Chants D'auvergne, Series 1 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra): No. 1, La Pastoura Als Camps
Chants D'auvergne, Series 1 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra): No. 2, Baïlèro
Chants D'auvergne, Series 1 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra): No. 3a, 3 Bourrées. L'aïo Dè Rotso
Chants D'auvergne, Series 1 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra): No. 3b, 3 Bourrées. Ound' Onorèn Gorda
Chants D'auvergne, Series 1 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra): No. 3c, 3 Bourrées. Obal, Din Lou Limouzi
Chants D'auvergne, Series 2 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 1, Pastourelle
Chants D'auvergne, Series 2 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 4, La Delaïssádo
Chants D'auvergne, Series 2 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 5a, 2 Bourrées. N'aï Pas I
Chants D'auvergne, Series 2 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 5b, 2 Bourrées. Lo Calhé
Chants D'auvergne, Series 3 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra): No. 1, Lo Fiolairé
Chants D'auvergne, Series 3 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra): No. 2, Passo Pel Prat
Chants D'auvergne, Series 3 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra): No. 3, Lou Boussu
Chants D'auvergne, Series 3 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra): No. 4, Brezairola
Chants D'auvergne, Series 3 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra): No. 5, Malurous Qu'o Uno Fenno
Chants D'auvergne, Series 4 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 1, Jou L'pount D'o Mirabel
Chants D'auvergne, Series 4 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 2, Oï Ayaï
Chants D'auvergne, Series 4 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 3, Per L'èfon
Chants D'auvergne, Series 4 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 4, Tchut, Tchut
Chants D'auvergne, Series 4 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 6, Lou Coucut
Chants D'auvergne, Series 5 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 2, Quan Z'eyro Petitoune
Chants D'auvergne, Series 5 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 3, Là-Haut, Sur Le Rocher
Chants D'auvergne, Series 5 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 4, Hé ! Beyla-Z-Y Dau Fé !
Chants D'auvergne, Series 5 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 6, Tè, L'co, Tè !
Chants D'auvergne, Series 5 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 7, Uno Jionto Postouro
Chants D'auvergne, Series 5 (Version For Soprano & Orchestra) [Excerpts]: No. 8, Lou Diziou Bé

UPC: 7318599925134
Label: Bis
Release Date: 9.3.21
Format: CD

Canteloube / Sampson / Rophe - Chants D'auvergne (Hybr) (CD)