#Veronique gens

[isoldescurse]

I actually believe Veronique Gens recording of La Voix Humaine is the best one on record by far right now. Gens makes a full fleshed completely operatic interpretation of the opera. I often feel like The Human Voice is performed more as a play that is being acted by an opera singer than as an opera. Gens never goes into that place: this is an opera, fully theatrical and musical, with dramatical outbursts and lyrical moments, acted out by an amazingly intelligent singer-actress.

[girlsontelephone]

[clouseplayssims]

[lesser-known-composers]

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) - Salve Regina

Il Seminario Musicale, Controtenore: Gérard Lesne, Soprano: Veronique Gens

[ao3feed-mfmm]

Surgery

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/qZG3puT by whitenoise27 "Good times, oui?" "Interesting times." Words: 300, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 8 of 50 Ways To Love Your Leaver Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Veronique Sarcelle, Phryne Fisher, Pierre Sarcelle, René Dubois Relationships: Phryne Fisher & Veronique Sarcelle Additional Tags: Pre-Series, But also, Episode: s01e07 Murder in Montparnasse, References to Abuse, nothing graphic, Whumptober 2024, day 25: surgery read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/qZG3puT

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

current mood

[middleagedwomen-curves]

Véronique Gens?

what a woman what a voice 😍😍😍

[mrbacf]

Veja "Ernest Chausson - 7 Mélodies, Op. 2 (1880)" no YouTube

[hellas-himself]

Ten Songs I’m Currently Obsessed With

I was tagged by @fourthy !!!! Thanks babes <3 

1. Mohe Rang Do Laal from the Bajirao Mastani Soundtrack

https://youtu.be/XU3eFkY1BTI

2. Orion’s Belt by Sabrina Claudio

https://youtu.be/oC-iYZL0lkI

3. Stand Still by Sabrina Claudio

https://youtu.be/dw0sjXiU4IE

4. The Way I Keep Myself Together by Kevin Garrett

https://youtu.be/2pCjEl_EVvg

5. Ending by Isak Danielson

https://youtu.be/5qyGWyFnFC0

6. Ghost Town by Kenneth Whalum

https://youtu.be/WiNdj7D6vc4

7. My Boy My Town by Mabel

https://youtu.be/7X21ynBma6M

8. Les Berceaux by Gabriel Faure, sung by Veronique Gens

https://youtu.be/daEekPDe7Iw

9. Demons by Jacob Lee 

https://youtu.be/2QTDcffpunY

10. Ocean by Jacob Lee

https://youtu.be/LbPiEs-N4Jk

I tag @rican @bergueda @tntwme @lady-bowser @emrysina @lagonegirl

[verdiprati]

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Maltman, Sampson, Lemkühl, Gens, Prina, Piau, and Basso

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Christopher Maltman sings a variety of English, German, and French repertoire in recital with Joseph Middleton. Wednesday, January 10 on NPO Radio 4.*

Carolyn Sampson and Wiebke Lemkühl are among the soloists in a performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio to be broadcast live from Copenhagen. Thursday, January 11 on DR P2 Klassisk.

Veronique Gens sings four Duparc lieder with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Antonio Pappano. Thursday, January 11 on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

As part of the Wigmore Hall concert series “Sonia Prina: A Celebration,” our favorite pocket-sized Italian contralto performs a variety of baroque works with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Thursday, January 11 on BBC Radio 3.*

Sandrine Piau and Romina Basso, both of whom have impressed me in live performance, are among the soloists for Handel’s “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by baroque specialist Emmanuelle Haïm. Friday, January 12 on Sveriges Radio P2.

Broadcasts marked with an asterisk (*) are on channels known to me to have a history of making most if not all of their live concert broadcasts available for catch-up listening for at least a week afterward. I can’t guarantee that any of these will be archived online but if you miss the live broadcast, there may be hope!

[isoldescurse]

I just love that Joyce DiDonato’s voice has more of a soprano timbre it than actually sopranos like Jessye Norman or Veronique Gens while singing Berlioz’ La mort de Cléopâtre

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[nctasja]

“odette!” vero exclaims as soon as she spots the french girl, “i didn’t know you were going to be here! i’m so glad you are, though, i totally embarassed myself in front of a pretty girl earlier and i was hoping to find someone i could tell all about it. it was so awful. but nevermind now, you’re here! how have you been?”      //     @barbiebraganca

[mmepastel]

Il est paru hier, je l’ai fini, goulûment, ce soir.

Le dernier Ovaldé.

Je l’avais un peu oubliée, mais je l’ai entendue à la radio la semaine dernière, et j’ai eu, comme souvent, une envie irrépressible de la lire à nouveau, séance tenante. Alors j’ai lu La grâce des brigands, avec beaucoup de plaisir.

Ici encore, une femme fuit un danger confus... emportant avec elle ses deux filles, en Alsace, près d’un lac.

Les héroïnes de Véronique Ovaldé quittent souvent les lieux, ciao, bye bye, au début des livres qui les racontent. Nouvelle vie, cavale, retraite, peu importe, il s’agit de faire peau neuve.

On aime follement Gloria, qui est au fond une ancienne petite fille malheureuse, et qui, désormais, est la petite fille à la hache, résolue à veiller sur les siens, quoiqu’il en coûte.

C’est un beau personnage de mère. De femme aussi, grandie de guingois avec des tuteurs branlants ou anxiogènes, sans doute le mal de l’époque qui traverse les parois poreuses de la fiction.. et qui est beaucoup plus anxieuse et en colère qu’elle ne paraît au premier abord.

Mais comme toujours avec Véronique Ovaldé, c’est le style qui me plaît, au-delà de l’histoire astucieusement construite, avec cet assez insolite et unique don pour la spontanéité (sûrement très travaillée), cette liberté de ton, d’invention, complètement maîtrisée par la narratrice dont le cerveau va à cent à l’heure, et dont les personnages, tout aussi pressés, aimeraient aussi bénéficier. Mais pour eux, la tâche est plus ardue... il est plus difficile qu’il n’y parait de rompre avec le passé, de s’inventer une vie... surtout si l’on est rongé par la peur... et Gloria, elle a peur, alors c’est d’elle qu’il faudra avoir un peu peur, plutôt bourreau que victime, assurément.

[sexygaywizard]

Gladly! But I gotta make it in its own post instead of a comment as I originally intended bc apparently I have too much to say lmao

For Erik Satie "Gymnopedie no 1" is a classic that many have heard! All of his Gymnopedie as well as his Gnossienne are strange and wonderful... He is great at creating this sense of mystique in his music that is so delightfully intriguing

Fauré: His pieces are less technically funky than my other faves but his pieces are SO emotionally evocative. "Après un Rêve" is a fave of mine from him- I myself performed the piece and I nearly cried while singing it bc it makes me have so many feelings!!! "Le Secret" is similarly beautiful

Debussy: any song from "Chansons de Bilitis" (the text of which comes from a great book of poetry by the same name that I highly recommend), "L'isle joyeuse," "Avec emportement," "Arabesques"... Some of Debussy's pieces honestly like give preludes of the thoughts that came together in Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" which is one of my fave compositions of all time.

Poulenc: Any of Banalités, any of Figure humaine (which was written as part of the French resistance to Nazi rule! Poulenc was a known homosexual living in occupied France during WWII. The last movement of this piece was such a big fuck you to the Germans that it couldn't be performed until after the war was over), Bleuet is also a singularly beautiful and evocative vocal work.

Here are a few selections just for ease of access...

If you listen to any of them or look stuff up and listen to more of these composers then lemme know bc I would LOVE to hear about it

Also sorry but most of my favorite composers are French. They did some weird shit from like 1850-1950 that makes my brain signals go blinky winky in that good funky way

[signoraviolettavalery]

Playlist Shuffle Meme!

Finally getting around to doing this. 

Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people. No skipping. 

Tagged by @insidious-intent and @lilascosmicdixon and @cosmicsolipsism

1. Come Back When You Can - Barcelona 

2. Lueur d’Ete - from the soundtrack of Les Choristes 

3. Largo al Quadrupede - Verdi: La Traviata

4. Reese on Ice - Ramin Djawadi (from the Person of Interest soundtrack) 

5. Pourquoi Faut-Il Encore M’Arracher Mon Amant? - from the opera Armide by Gluck, performed by Veronique Gens

6. Obsession - Smash!! (this is a Russian pop band that I listened to as a teenager, don’t even ask) 

7. Doctor Who Theme (umm...why is this still on my iTunes? I haven’t watched this show in years) 

8. Two Boomers - Bear McCreary (from the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack) 

9. Jurassic World Suite- Michael Giacchino (from the Jurassic World soundtrack) 

10. Impossible Mission - Mission Impossible soundtrack

(I’m sorry this is literally all either soundtracks or opera, I’m not very exciting and I really should update my pop music library) 

Pretty sure literally everyone has already been tagged but here goes: 

@lynati @audreyblanche @theknifelady @ober-affen-geil @chasingshhadows @stydiaeverafter @gra-sonas @hannah-writes @haloud @i-never-look-away