Parisian Café Music at the Turn of the 20th Century
VINCENT YOUMANS (1898-1946): Tea for Two, HOPE TEMPLE (1859-1938): My Lady’s Bower, ANDRÉ MESSAGER (1853-1929): Ah! Nay, do not fly me from Nanette, Gold and Blue and White and Lightly, lightly from, Monsieur Beaucaire, IVAN CARYLL (1861-1921): S.A.R. (Son Altesse Royal), RODOLPHE BERGER (1864-1916): Récit et Cavatine de Lauranguy from Le Chevalier d’Éon, Fantaisie-sélection from Messalinette, FÉLIX FOURDRAIN (1897-1957): Rêverie de Cendrillon from Les Contes de Perrault, HAYDN WOOD (1882-1959): Roses of Picardy, REYNALDO HAHN (1874-1947): La Dernière Valse from Une Revue, LOUIS BEYDTS (1895-1953): L’Escarpolette from Moineau, MARCEL LATTÈS (1886-1943): Maggie, the Movie Queen from Maggie, JEROME KERN (1885-1945): Some Sort of Somebody from Very Good Eddy, MAURICE YVAIN (1891-1965): Je chante la nuit, GRACE LEBOY (1890-1983): Everybody Rag with Me!.
Catalogue Number: 11U080
Label: Naxos
Reference: 8.573973
Format: CD
Price: $11.98
Description: With Parisian society in late 19th and early 20th centuries regularly gripped by periods of Anglomania, a constant process of cultural exchange with London resulted in operetta hits, wartime classics and popular songs both bawdy and elegant. Capturing the spirit of a period ranging from the fashionable d’Oyly Carte to 1920s American Jazz, the Frivol’Ensemble takes you back in time to rediscover the delights of this golden age of musical theatricality. Texts and translations available online. Clémentine Decouture (soprano), Philippe Brocard (baritone), Frivol’Ensemble.