Agile, unmannered soprano Lucie Daullene is ideal for these heartfelt chansons régionales. Joseph Canteloube's evocative, supremely subtle accompaniment on a small French parlor grand (a Pleyel?) is a model of understatement and fluid expressivity. Touching simplicity, remarkable poetry, a very beautiful collaboration. Within seconds, the technical limitations of this 1948-49 studio recording become utterly irrelevant.
Agile, unmannered soprano Lucie Daullene is ideal for these heartfelt chansons régionales. Joseph Canteloube's evocative, supremely subtle accompaniment on a small French parlor grand (a Pleyel?) is a model of understatement and fluid expressivity. Touching simplicity, remarkable poetry, a very beautiful collaboration. Within seconds, the technical limitations of this 1948-49 studio recording become utterly irrelevant.
La belle est au jardin d'amour...