Mathilde Vialle - The Last Rose - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Details 1. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Sinfonia 2. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Adagio 3. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Chorus. Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet Ihr Flüchtigen 4. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Recitative. O Kalter Männer Sinn 5. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Aria. Seele, Deine Spezereien 6. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Recitative. Hier Ist Die Gruft 7. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Aria. Sanfte Soll Mein Todeskummer 8. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Recitative. Indessen Seufzen Wir 9. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Aria. Saget, Saget Mir Geschwinde 10. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Recitative. Wir Sind Erfreut, Dass Unser 11. Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium 'Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet'), BWV 249 (BC D8) Chorus. Preis Und Dank Bleibe, Herr, Dein 12. Cantata No. 6 'Bleib Bei Uns, Denn Es Will Abend Werden,' BWV 6 (BC A57) Chorus. Bleib Bei Uns, Denn Es Will Abend Werden 13. Cantata No. 6 'Bleib Bei Uns, Denn Es Will Abend Werden,' BWV 6 (BC A57) Aria. Hochgelobter Gottessohn 14. Cantata No. 6 'Bleib Bei Uns, Denn Es Will Abend Werden,' BWV 6 (BC A57) Choral. Ach Bleib Bei Uns, Herr Jesu Christ 15. Cantata No. 6 'Bleib Bei Uns, Denn Es Will Abend Werden,' BWV 6 (BC A57) Recitative. Es Hat Die Dunkelheit 16. Cantata No. 6 'Bleib Bei Uns, Denn Es Will Abend Werden,' BWV 6 (BC A57) Aria. Jesu, Lass Uns Auf Dich Sehen 17. Cantata No. 6 'Bleib

SOMM Recordings is honored to one of the last recordings made by the much-loved and admired soprano Sally Silver before her death at the age of 51 in 2018. Silver's third on SOMM, La vie d'une rose returns to the evocatively perfumed songs of Jules Massenet following 2015's well-received Les amoureuses sont des folles. Accompanied again by the renowned conductor- pianist Richard Bonynge - who also provides a moving, specially written tribute - she is joined by the mezzo-soprano Christine Tocci on six duets. The 25 (of Massenet's 285) mélodies heard here offer a marked contrast to the familiar image of the composer's famed operatic credentials. As Massenet expert Hervé Oléon says in his authoritative booklet notes InchMassenet, the song composer, was, in his own words, rather more at home in salons - this 'bourgeois artist at the fireside' as he liked to describe himselfInch. Embracing a multitude of emotions, sacred and profane, these songs employ wide-ranging forms and a broad musical palette to always captivating ends while also revealing a composer perpetually developing, keen to experiment and looking towards the future. La vie d'une rose is produced by the late soprano's husband Jeremy Silver (Director of the Opera School at the University of Cape Town) who also provides the translation of Hervé Oléon's booklet notes. Of Sally Silver's previous releases with SOMM, her first volume of Massenet songs, Les amoureuses sont des folles (SOMMCD 0151), received the coveted Orphée d'or from L'Académie du disque lyrique and was a Recording of the Month for MusicWeb International, who described it as InchA pure delight... [Silver and Bonynge] bring inspired, sympathetic, thoughtfully nuanced readings to these songsInch. Songs by William Vincent Wallace (SOMMCD 0131) was hailed by Classical Ear as InchA full of delightful discoveries distinguished by persuasive perfor

Each of the works on this recording was either composed by or inspired by a woman. We meet Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944) and her Concertino - 'a piece that has accompanied me for years and encapsulates her immense talent', says Mathilde Calderini; Claude Arrieu (1903-90), a pupil of Marguerite Long and Paul Dukas; Mel Bonis (1858-1937); and the young composer Lise Borel (b. 1993), whom Mathilde Calderini commissioned to write a piece entitled Miroir, which she premiered in 2023 with Aurele Marthan, the pianist on this recording and a longstanding artistic partner of hers. Debussy's famous nymph Syrinx and a transcription of his prelude La Fille aux cheveux de lin are also on the programme, as are his Six epigraphes antiques, inspired by the Chansons de Bilitis, named after an (entirely fictional) ancient poetess. Francis Poulenc's Sonata of 1957 is 'probably one of the most beautiful pieces ever written for flute and piano', according to the French flautist. The work was commissioned by the American pianist and philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, who also did a great deal for such composers as Ravel, Stravinsky and Barber. Album Tracks 1. Concertino Pour Flûte Et Piano 2. La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin, Pour Flûte Et Piano 3. Sonate Pour Flûte Et Piano 4. Bilitis Six Épigraphes Antiques 5. Sonatine Pour Flûte Et Piano 6. Syrinx 7. Miroir Pour Flûte Et Piano 8. Sonate Pour Flûte Et Piano