French Songs and Arias
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French Songs and Arias is an album released by New Zealand
opera diva Kiri Te Kanawa
in 1997.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
opera diva Kiri Te Kanawa
Kiri Te Kanawa
Dame Kiri Jeanette Te Kanawa, ONZ, DBE, AC is a New Zealand / Māori soprano who has had a highly successful international opera career since 1968. Acclaimed as one of the most beloved sopranos in both the United States and Britain she possesses a warm full lyric soprano voice, singing a wide array...
in 1997.
Track listing
- "Phidyle" - Duparc
- "L'Invitation Au Voyage" - Duparc
- "La Vie Antérieure" - Duparc
- "Le Manoir De Rosamonde" - Duparc
- "Testament" - Duparc
- "Au Pays Ou Se Fait La Guerre" - Duparc
- "Chanson Triste" - Duparc
- "Asie" - RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
- "La Flûte Enchantée" - Ravel
- "L'Indifférent" - Ravel
- "Depuis Le Jour" - CharpentierCharpentierCharpentier is the French word for carpenter and a French surname. A variant spelling is Carpentier. In English the name is spelled Carpenter while in German it is Zimmermann....
- "L'Année En Vain Chasse L'Année" - DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
- "D'Amour L'Ardente Flamme" - BerliozHector BerliozHector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...