Un échange avec Nicole Taylor :
De : TARIF Pierre (ENGIE Africa)
Envoyé : lundi 6 avril 2020 12:38
À : nicotay@gmail.com
Objet : Pierre’s lessons next week
As promised :
- La chanson bien douce – Verlaine – Léo Ferré, with his intelligent face singing, and this other one with the words
This gives energy, isn’t it ? - And now, probably the most well-knowns song he wrote and sung : avec le temps … Be careful : take some tissue handy if you want to listen till the end
- And a 3-rd and last one, sung by himself (he kept changing his interpretations along time) : Pauvre Rutebeuf This one is not complete, but the best to my ears, but there are many on Youtube, like this one, but I think this one is the best. And the great Joan Baez also sung it, with this lovely accent (made of curious US and France South-West) as well Nana Mouskouri.
Have a nice day
Pierre TARIF
Head of IT
ENGIE Africa
pierre.tarif@engie.com – Mob. +33 (0)6 33 15 22 19
De : nicole taylor <nicotay@gmail.com>
Envoyé : samedi 4 avril 2020 22:17
À : TARIF Pierre (ENGIE Africa) <pierre.tarif@engie.com>
Objet : Re: Pierre’s lessons next week
Hi Pierre,
Thanks for your message. Yes, you have 3 lessons remaining from 2019.
Ok for Con te partirò ️… you could even make it a duet if there is a lady from our classes that you’d like to sing with.
Yes, ok too for Le chanteur de Mexico. Sounds light-hearted and fun.
As for other French melodies… the big composers are Debussy, Fauré, Chausson, Duparc, Hahn, Ravel, Poulenc, Berlioz…and for French opera Gounod, Massenet, Delibes, Bizet, Offenbach, Saint-saens
You may like:
L’invitation au voyage (Duparc -This is his most famous and beautiful song!!! – can you believe he burned the majority of his compositions because he thought they were, in his words « repugnant”. So important to for artists to have a good support system!!! … We now have remaining less than 40 of his compositions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qg5VcymZSA 12/20
Soupir (Duparc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V56skWNnz4o 14/20
La vie antérieure (Duparc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhR69rKhzKg 14/20
Phidylé (Duparc – more often sung by a tenor, but still very famous and beautiful for baritone)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1jARyOA2LI 17/20
Au pays ou se fait la guerre (Duparc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlnH-vMqA7Y 15/20
Chanson triste (Duparc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHx6vLgOXPk 19/20
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (song cycle of 3 songs Chanson Romanesque, Chanson Épique, Chanson à Boire – Ravel) ** very famous songs for baritone***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANGvegBH9xs 15/20
Serenade italienne (Chausson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ0b-eHoVHo 18/20
Le colibri (Chausson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVMs7ukL3sk 13/20
Le temps de lilas (Chausson – very famous from an orchestral tone poem called Poeme de l’amour et de la mer, written for mezzo-soprano or dramatic soprano, but can also be sung by a man)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kFjepFI4-E 14/20
Deux poems de Louis Aragon (Poulenc – the first song has many musical allusions to his opera Les Dialogues de Carmelites)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEddVDkfP3g&list=PL-cxHY2wJkNA-pShIGEsN_tvKLxyB6QLr&index=125 17/20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Lw5PzVhqY&list=PL-cxHY2wJkNA-pShIGEsN_tvKLxyB6QLr&index=126 20/20
Il pleure dans mon coeur (Fauré)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31fd3nRJgdo&list=RDuXaFjGLMUKQ&index=16 19/20
Les roses d’Ispahan (Fauré)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAFboAxfsXE 16/20
Claire de lune (Fauré)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGf0w0zghFI 17/20
Si mes vers avaient des ailes (Hahn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBDep8s9huM&list=RDuXaFjGLMUKQ&index=41 18/20
A Chloris (Hahn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih6UCcIvE18 18/20
Infidelité (Hahn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B11aihM6kQw 16/20
3 melodies de Paul Verlaine (Debussy – interesting songs dedicated to Ernest Chausson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bimJAHH6uNk 15/20
The most famous(and standard) arias for lyric baritone in French are:
Toreador aria from Carmen (Bizet – LOOK AT HOW SAM RAMEY USES HIS LIPS IN TRUMPET SHAPE!!!! ALL THE TIME AND ON EVERY NOTE!!! This is why his sound is very even and steady)
Avant de quitter ces lieux from Faust (Gounod)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz74ej1YRcM 14/20
Sois immobile from Guillaume Tell (Rossini)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKkLNVmvsqw 16/20
Mab, la reine des mensonges from Romeo et Juliette (Gounod – a little boring for my taste, and more for a young baritone, but people sing it often)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfD5YXhMabE yep …
Vision fugitive from Hérodiade (Massenet – notice how close his low voice is to his speaking voice…like talking)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxFGagcyf2s 13/20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh9rZSkC0ks (watch how he opens his jaw, tongue relaxed, top lip active) à better + tempo
Comme une pale fleur from Hamlet (Thomas – not often sung, but lovely)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Io66UD3_8 16/20
***Fille des rois from L’Africaine (Meyerbeer – not often song, but beautiful romantic aria nonetheless)*** This would be very beautiful for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhR7fQkG1Ww 15/20
This should give you a nice list of famous songs and arias to start with. Hope you will like some of them. Most music scores you can find online at the Petrucci library: www.imslp.org They are all out of copyright, except the Poulenc, so should be available. If you can’t find them, just tell me and I will find them in my library.
Have a great weekend and Happy Palm Sunday.
Nicole
On Apr 3, 2020, at 11:51 PM, <pierre.tarif@engie.com> <pierre.tarif@engie.com> wrote:
Hi Nicole
I reserved the “usual” timeslot next Monday at 11:00
+ next Wednesday too, at 2:00 pm
Now I have a request :
- would it be possible to work this piece : Con te partiro – Andrea Bocelli. Easy listening for sure, but very beautiful, and I feel like I am able sing the highest notes : Il will make work wok them (maybe not « io con te »)
- Do you know others “like” Les grands vaisseaux
- And for the fun : this one would certainly please many people : Luis Mariano – Mexico (Opérette « Le Chanteur de Mexico »)
Have a nice week-end
Pierre TARIF
Head of IT
ENGIE Africa
pierre.tarif@engie.com – Mob. +33 (0)6 33 15 22 19