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Track(s) taken from A66059

Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans, L99

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The Light Blues
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Recording details: April 1982
St George the Martyr, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: December 1982
Total duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

Cover artwork: Illustration by Ross Davenport.
 

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The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)
‘Caplet, vous n’êtes qu’un vilain’, comme disait Charles d’Orléans en parlant de L’Yver’—thus Debussy wrote in a letter to his friend André Caplet in 1908, some evidence, perhaps, that France’s great fifteenth-century poet was in his thoughts. In the same year he wrote the second of the Trois chansons, Nos 1 and 3 having been written earlier, in 1898. They were published as a set in 1909, Debussy himself conducting the première in Paris. A minor puzzle has always surrounded the solo in No 2: the published edition (presumably overseen by the composer) assigns it to a contralto, whereas the manuscript designates it for tenor, more appropriately since the speaker is clearly male. The three pieces make a varied and successful set; we can only regret that Debussy wrote no more for unaccompanied choir.

from notes by Collegium Records © 2002

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