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Mots D'Amour.
Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg [] "MOTS D'AMOUR" Songs and instrumental pieces by Chaminade. Texts and translations. DG 471331
If you prefer sparkling wine to Pinot Gris, and a hot bubble bath to twenty minutes in the sauna, then pop the cork and turn on the tap, with this fizzy, frothy and foamy CD to keep you company. French composer Cecile Chaminade kept her musical passion a secret from her disapproving father, an insurance-company executive who said that a professionally trained musician would never make a proper bourgeois wife. So Cecile and her pianist-singer mother went behind daddy's back. They collaborated with Bizet to arrange an impressive course of study for the girl, including private instruction in piano, harmony and composition. In 1877, while Chaminade pere was away on a business trip, the twenty-year-old made her first public appearance as a pianist; the following year, a concert of her compositions was presented in Paris and, voila Chaminade was launched as a composer.
There followed public premieres of large-scale works: the Suite for Orchestra, a comic opera, a ballet, a concert piece for piano and orchestra, and the still-popular concertino for flute. But Chaminade's real popularity and financial success came with the publication and performance of nearly ...
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...that is stunned silence. Anne Sofie von Otter carries it over into the words. She...insatiable curiosity costs her everything. Von Otter is of a slighter vocal timbre than is...they are the greater part of her, and Von Otter keeps them at the forefront of her characterisation...
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