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Track(s) taken from SIGCD401

Lettre du front

First line:
Le canon se tait, il fait nuit
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Robin Tritschler (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
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Recording details: February 2014
St Michael's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
Produced by Raphaël Mouterde
Engineered by Mike Hatch & Robin Hawkins
Release date: November 2014
Total duration: 5 minutes 25 seconds

Cover artwork: The Volunteer (c1914-1916).
© HIP / Topfoto / ArenaPAL
 

Reviews

'This timely recital includes songs by those, more ore less obscure who fell young in the First World War—George Butterworth, Albéric Magnard, Rudi Stephan, William Denis Browne and others—and by those who survived, were imprisoned or were otherwise affected by that shameful conflict. The gifted tenor Robin Tritschler's singing is nuanced sensitively, while the pianist Malcolm Martineau is, as always, an astute partner' (The Sunday Times)
Pierre Vellones, pseudonym of Pierre Édouard Léon Rousseau, (1889-1939) was a keen composer and friend to many in French music circles including Ravel and Roussel. However his father steered him away from a career in music. Instead Vellones became a doctor. In 1914 he was assigned to the 117th Infantry Regiment with whom he served as a medical assistant. Lettre du front was written on 24 February 1916.

Marcel Manchez was a French playwright whose play English Maid was featured at the Théâtre aux Armées de la République in 1917. In the 1920s and 30s he wrote and produced his own films.

from notes by Robin Tritschler © 2014

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