Original upload date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:24 GMT
Part 1: Here is the beginning of a live performance with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade singing "Poème de l'amour et de la mer" by Ernest Chausson. Riccardo Muti conducts the Philadelphia Orchest
...
ra in this 131st anniversary concert, 23 January 1988. The text is by Chausson's friend Maurice Bouchor. A brief synopsis of these first two movements: The poet spends his summer at the coast and meets a girl on the shore. She leaves before him and he wonders if they'll ever meet again. The melancholic orchestral interlude foreshadows his disappointment.
I. La fleur des eaux (The Flower of the Waters)
II. Interlude
Link to the conclusion: http://youtu.be/k_pVDW5-Vow
And here is a link to my Frederica von Stade playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCC842EF9858E2660&feature=plcp
