Songs of the Auvergne

Album by Joseph Canteloube & Jill Gomez & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Vernon Handley

Songs of the Auvergne is a cycle of folk song arrangements by French composer Joseph Canteloube, composed between 1923 and 1930. The cycle adapts traditional Auvergne melodies for soprano and orchestra, using lush orchestral colours and modal, folk-inflected harmonies to evoke rural French song and reflect early 20th-century interest in preserving regional folk traditions within classical music.

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    L'aïo dè rotso (Spring Water)
    1:10
  2. 2.
    Ound' ornorèn gorda (Where shall we go and graze?)
    3:02
  3. 3.
    Oal din lou Limouzi (Down there in Limousin)
    2:26
  4. 4.
    Jou l'pount d'o Mirabel (By Mirabel Bridge)
    3:41
  5. 5.
    Chut, chut (Hush, hush)
    1:59
  6. 6.
    Lou boussu (The Hunchback)
    2:12
  7. 7.
    Postouro, sé tu m'aymo (Shepherd Lass, if you love me)
    1:28
  8. 8.
    La delaïssádo (The Forsaken Girl)
    4:59
  9. 9.
    L'Antouèno (Anthony)
    3:11
  10. 10.
    Baïlèro (Bailero)
    6:26
  11. 11.
    Passo pel prat (Come through the meadow)
    3:00
  12. 12.
    Lo fiolairé (The Spinning Girl)
    2:38
  13. 13.
    Brezairola (Cradle Song)
    3:29
  14. 14.
    Pastourelle (Shepherd Lass)
    3:50
  15. 15.
    Lou coucut (The Cuckoo)
    1:40
  16. 16.
    Tè, l'co, tè! (Go on, dog!)
    0:48
  17. 17.
    Malurous qu'o uno fenno (Unhappy he who has a wife)
    1:26

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