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Chansons madécasses

December 15, 2023

Chansons madécasses (Madagascan Songs) is a set of three exotic art songs by Maurice Ravel written in 1925 and 1926 to words from the poetry collection of the same name by Évariste de Parny.[1]

Chansons madécasses
Song cycle by Maurice Ravel
The composer, c. 1925
EnglishMadagascan Songs
Textpoems Chansons madécasses by Évariste de Parny
LanguageFrench
DedicationElizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Performed8 May 1926 (1926-05-08)
Movementsthree
Scoring

Structure edit

Scored for mezzo-soprano or baritone, flute, cello and piano, and dedicated to the American musician and philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge,[2] the set is usually performed complete as a true song cycle although this was not the composer's designation. The songs are:

  • "Nahandove" (incipit: "Nahandove, ô belle Nahandove")
  • "Aoua!" (incipit: "Aoua! méfiez-vous des blancs" [Ow! Beware of white people])
  • "Il est doux" (incipit: "Il est doux de se coucher durant la chaleur" [It is sweet to lie down during the heat])

Premiere and recordings edit

Jane Bathori sang the premiere on 8 May 1926, in Rome, accompanied by flutist Louis Fleury, cellist Hans Kindler, and pianist Alfredo Casella.[3] The first edition print was made by Luc-Albert Moreau. The first known record was that by Madeleine Grey, a highly regarded singer, in 1932. More recent recordings include:

See also edit

In 2011, the British composer James Francis Brown wrote a work in three movements for the same instrumentation called Songs of Nature and Farewell, which is a setting of three little-known poems by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.[4] In 2015 the British composer Judith Weir wrote a work in three movements for the same instrumentation called Nuits d'Afrique; it was commissioned by Wigmore Hall for the soprano Ailish Tynan.[5] Both works are intended as a companion to Ravel's Chansons madécasses.

References edit

  1. ^ Arbie Orenstein (1975). "Ravel's Musical Language". Ravel: Man and Musician. Courier Corporation. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-486-26633-6.
  2. ^ Maurice Ravel; Arbie Orenstein (1 August 2003). "Correspondence". A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Interviews. Courier Corporation. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-486-43078-2.
  3. ^ Deborah Mawer (24 August 2000). The Cambridge Companion to Ravel. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. pp. 264ff. ISBN 978-0-521-64856-1.
  4. ^ Songs of Nature and Farewell (no date) Available at: http://www.musichaven.co.uk/Songs-of-Nature-and-Farewell.html 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed: 13 October 2015)
  5. ^ Nuits d'Afrique published by Chester Music (2015)

External links edit

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