Chants des Pays Basques...

 

María Bayo
Canteloube
Chants D'Auvergne
Chants Des Pays Basque
1998

Tracks:

Chants Des Pays Basque

1. Lurraren Pian
2. Egun Batean
3. Chorietan Buruzagi
4. Nik Badut Maiteñobat
5. Chori Erresiñoula

Chants D'Auvergne

6. La Pastoura Als Camps
7. Bailero
8. Trois Bourrées: l'Aio Dè Roiso/Ound`Onorèn Gorda/Obal Din Lou Limouzi
9. Pastourelle
10. La Delaissado
11. Deux Bourrées: N'Ai Pas Iéu de Mio?/Lo Calhé
12. Lo Fiolairé
13. Lou Boussu
14. Brezairola
15. Malurous Qu'o Uno Fenno
16. Lou Coucut
17. Postouro Sé Tu M'Aymo

Personnel:

María Bayo: Soprano
Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife
Dirección: Victor Pablo Perez

  

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"The big challenge in these songs is to retain the essence of folk-song, that ingenuous quality it has, keeping well clear of grandiose excess, artificiality or versophistication, which is the danger with such a rich orchestra. And yet the singer must be faithful to the score too, which certainly specifies certain dynamic levels, certain dirninuendos and crescendos, and great intensity. That is the difficult thing, marrying those two aspects together successfully."

 

 ..."I was very keen to record the chants d'Auvergne. I had gone on a tour of Japan with the Auvergne Orchestra performing these pieces: it was a great success, though what counted most was the enthusiasm I felt for these works. From the point of view of technique, they suit my voice. They rather centre on the mid range, as you would expect from music of folk origin, but they do have real substance. In the end, though, it is the evocative power of the music that draws me to it: the sense of breadth, fresh air, of simplicity in the midst of the grandeur of nature, of song born of love. These settings blend the simplicity and beauty of the melodies with colourful, rich orchestral writing, very much in the tradition of French orchestration."

For a Spanish singer the challenge of singing in the Auvergnat dialect presented fewer problems than for, say, an American or an Australian. "There are just a few consonants that are different in that dialect, the sounds mostly being the typical Latin language sounds, sharing features with French, Spanish, Italian and so on. Actually it was probably harder hitting the right tempo. One has to remember that the songs are based on folk rhythms, often ones intended for dancing. So apart from studying the dialect I visited the region, immersed myself in its landscapes, its rhythms, its people. I realized that the songs are much more than just descriptive: they have great human depth, the ageold wisdom of the people.

Unlike other recordings of these popular pieces, Bayo and her conductor Victor Pablo Perez ... add the rarely heard Basque folk-song arrangements. "When I was studying the chants d'Auvergne, I was struck by the fact that a musician from abroad -as Canteloube was - should have made arrangements of the folksongs of my own land, songs I had often sung when I was studying at music school in Pamplona. What I said for the Auvergne songs goes for these ones too: in addition to the orchestra's richness there are also the rhythms and the 'sauciness' of the words to be borne in mind. Though in the case of the Basque songs there was no special difficulty involved since I have known them all my life."
 

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