Massenet: Vocal Works
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| 5 Poème d'octobre, prelude and songs for voice and piano |
This is a list of compositions by French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). |
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L'histoire de Manon, generally referred to as Manon, is a ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to music by Jules Massenet and based on the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. The ballet was first performed by The Royal Ballet in London in 1974 with Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell in the leading roles. It continues to be performed and recognised internationally. |
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| Amours bénis, for soprano, horn and piano | ||
| Amours bénis: Une aube fraîche et printanière, for voice, cello and piano | ||
| Chants intimes, 3 songs for voice and piano | ||
| Élégie: O doux printemps d'autrefois |
Les Érinnyes (The Erinyes) is a French language verse drama written by Leconte de Lisle and premièred at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1873. It is in the style of a Greek tragedy, in two acts: Klytaimnestra (Clytemnestra) and Orestès (Orestes). It was an adaptation of the first two parts of Aeschylus' Oresteia (Agamemnon and Libation Bearers). The text was printed in de Lisle's collection Poèmes Tragiques. |
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| Huere vécue: Une nuit brune d'un soir d'hiver, for voice and piano | ||
| La lettre: Je mets sur le papier luisant, for voice and piano | ||
| La mort de la cigale, for voice and piano |
This is a list of compositions by French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). |
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| La nuit: Parfois, losque tout dort, for voice and piano | ||
| La Vierge |
La Vierge is an oratorio (légende sacrée) in four scenes by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Charles Grandmougin. It was first performed at the Opéra in Paris on May 22, 1880. The oratorio is a recounting of the story of the Virgin Mary from the Annunciation to her death. In the first scene, Mary is visited by the Angel Gabriel and told that she will bear a son, Jesus. The second scene takes place at the Marriage at Cana where Jesus turns water to wine, and the third on Good Friday when Jesus is crucified. The fourth scene relates the Assumption of Mary into heaven. Although never popular as a whole, the orchestral piece "Le dernier sommeil de la vierge" (The Last Sleep of the Virgin) remains a popular encore piece to this day. A recording conducted by Patrick Fournillier was issued by Koch Swann in 1991, and the soprano Montserrat Caballé has revived the piece in concert in recent years. |
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| Le Printemps visite la terre, for voice and piano |
This is a list of compositions by French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). |
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| Marquise: Vous en souvenez-vous, Marquise? |
Below is a sortable list of compositions by Camille Saint-Saëns. The works are categorised by genre, opus number, Ratner catalogue number, date of composition and titles. R numbers are from Camille Saint-Saëns 1835–1921: A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works by Sabina Teller Ratner (Oxford University Press). |
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| Nuit d'Espagne: L'air est embaumé | ||
| Oh! si les fleurs avaient des yeux | ||
| On dit: On dit beaucoup de choses, for voice and piano | ||
| Ouvre tes yeux bleus, for voice and piano |
This is a list of compositions by French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). |
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| Pensée d'automne: L'an fuit vers son déclin | ||
| Poëme d'amour, for soprano, baritone, and piano |
Don Quichotte (Don Quixote) is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn. It was first performed on 19 February 1910 at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Massenet's comédie héroïque, like many dramatized versions of the story of Don Quixote, relates only indirectly to the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The immediate inspiration was Le chevalier de la longue figure, a play by the poet Jacques Le Lorrain first performed in Paris in 1904. In this version of the story, the simple farm girl Aldonza (Dulcinea) of the original novel becomes the more sophisticated Dulcinée, a flirtatious local beauty inspiring the infatuated old man's exploits. |
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| Poème d'avril, cycle of 8 songs, op. 14 |
Sophie Adele Wyss (5 July 1897 – 25 December 1983) was a Swiss soprano who made her career as a concert singer and broadcaster in the UK. She was noted for her performances of French works, many of them new to Britain, for giving the world premieres of Benjamin Britten's orchestral song cycles Our Hunting Fathers (1936) and Les Illuminations (1940), and for encouraging other composers to set English and French texts. Among those who wrote for her were Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Cooke, Roberto Gerhard, Elizabeth Maconchy, Peter Racine Fricker, Alan Rawsthorne and Mátyás Seiber. |
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| Poëme pastoral, for baritone, 3 female voices, and piano |
This is a list of compositions by French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). |
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| Soleil couchant: Le soleil s'est couché ce soir, for voice and piano | ||
| Sonnet: Les grands bois s'éveillaient | ||
| Souvenez-vous, Vierge Mari: Prière de Saint Bernard, for tenor, chorus, organ, and orchestra | ||
| Stances de Gilbert: Au banquet de la vie, infortuné |