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Joseph
CANTELOUBE
Chants dAuvergne
Vronique Gens, Soprano
Orchestre National de Lille
Jean-Claude Casadesus
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Chants dAuvergne
The mountainous province of Auvergne, its name
derived from the Gallic tribe of the Arverni, victorious
under Vercingtorix in resistance to Julius Caesar, has
held an important position in the history of France, from
its conquest in 1190 by Philippe Auguste. In the Middle
Ages there remained a careful balance of power between
local feudal lords, until Auvergne became crown territory
in the sixteenth century. The region has its own patois
and its own cultural traditions. It was from Auvergne that
the family of Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret
stemmed. He himself was born in 1879 at Annonay and
spent his childhood in the countryside of Malaret, in the
south of Auvergne. It was there that he found his first
interest in folk-song. As he later wrote Les chants
paysans slvent bien souvent au niveau de lart le plus
pur, par le sentiment et lexpression, sinon par la forme
(The songs of the peasants very often reach the level of
the purest art in feeling and expression, if not in form).
In 1900, after the death of his mother, he went to Paris,
where he had piano lessons with Amlie Daetzer, a
pupil of Chopin. Two years later he began his study of
counterpoint with Csar Francks pupil Vincent dIndy,
later entering the Schola Cantorum that dIndy had
established, an institution of sound musical principles,
but one that deliberately avoided the regulations and
formalities of the Conservatoire. The Schola Cantorum
gave particular encouragement to the development of
regional musical traditions, an aim that was to suit very
well the views of the monarchist Charles Maurras and
Action franaise. Here Canteloube studied fugue,
composition and orchestration, meeting another disciple
of Franck, Charles Bordes, whose mismanagement of
the affairs of the Schola later led to his own bankruptcy
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A pretty shepherdess
One morning
Sat on the grass,
Wept for her lover!
Lou diziou b
They said
Lou diziou b,
Pierrou, quaymay les drolloy,
Lou diziou b,
Pierrou, quaymay lou bi!
You zayme tout,
Lou bi-t-omay ley drolloy,
M per cauzi,
Preferorio lou bi!
They said,
Pierre, that you loved the girls,
They said,
Pierre, that you loved wine!
I love it all,
Wine and girls,
But for choice,
I would rather have wine!
E leys omours
Bostidos su ley cndr,
Ley foundomn
Soun pro sudjt ol bnt!
S lou bnt b
Empourtoro ley cndr,
May yu to b
Toutjour din ley trumns!
If love
Is built on ashes,
Its foundations
Will give in the wind!
If the wind blows,
It will take the ashes,
As for me,
I am always in torment!
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Vronique Gens
Marie, je le suis,
Pas ma fantaisie,
Jai pris vieillard jaloux
Qui na pas mes amours!
Married I am,
But not to my liking.
I took a jealous old man
That I do not love!
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Jean-Claude Casadesus
Born in Paris, Jean-Claude Casadesus studied percussion and composition at the Paris
Conservatoire, composing several scores for cinema and the theatre. He studied conducting
with Pierre Dervaux in Paris and Pierre Boulez in Basel. Appointed permanent conductor at
the Paris Opra and the Opra-Comique in 1969, he contributed to the development of the
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire with Pierre Dervaux and remained its Assistant
Director until 1976. In that year he founded the Orchestre National de Lille and, as Director,
has devoted most of his time and energy to its development since then. Under his direction,
the Orchestra National de Lille has become one of the leading orchestras in France, renowned
in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan for its wide repertoire, its dynamism and the quality of its artistic
vision, based on ethical values and long-term projects. After an invitation to Salzburg in 1985, Jean-Claude
Casadesus has taken the orchestra to Africa and toured Germany and the former Soviet Union to high acclaim.
Further success came with tours to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Hong Kong and Lebanon as well as regular
visits to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw for the Summer Festival, and also to Belgium. In an international career
Jean-Claude Casadesus has appeared in Philadelphia, New York, St Petersburg, Berlin, Moscow, Prague, London,
Vienna, Dresden, Leipzig and Montreal, among other musical centres. His work in the opera-house has taken him
to the Lille Opra, the Opra National de Paris, the Opra National de Lyon , Opra de Monte Carlo and the
Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent. He has made a considerable number of recordings, and is president of
Musique Nouvelle en Libert, reinforcing his strong commitment to contemporary music.
Prenguet lo comi,
E ma lou coutilhou,
E ma lou boborel,
E ma lou moutsodou,
E ss poulidos caussos,
E mett la couoiffo.
Que soui blo!
So digut,
E Morgorido se lvet.
& Lou coucut
The Cuckoo
If all cuckoos
would carry a little bell,
Oh, they would be like five hundred trumpets!
My cuckoo, your cuckoo,
the cuckoo of others.
Say, have you not heard the cuckoo sing?
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Bengrou o possa
Trs cobolhs dormado.
There passed by
Three mounted soldiers.
^ O aya
Oh! Ah!
O aya,
coui iu forai?
Nai pas de couoiffo!
Oh! Ah!
What shall I do?
I have no hat.
Pierrou bo lo fiyro,
Pierrou lo li croumpo,
Pierrou lo li pourto,
Pierrou lo li doun,
Inqur s pas lvado,
Dzoma ne se lvo!
Lvo, lvo, lou dzour b!
Morgoridoto, lvot!
O aya,
coui iu forai?
Nai pas de coutilhou!
Oh! Ah!
What shall I do?
I have no petticoat.
Pierrou bo lo fiyro,
Pierrou lo li croumpo etc.
O aya,
coui iu forai?
Que nai pas de comi!
Oh! Ah!
What shall I do?
I have no chemise.
Pierrou bo lo fiyro,
Pierrou lo li croumpo etc.
O, my God!
It is cold,
And I must leave my bed!
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2 Balro
Gordorai mo bosso!
Gordorai mo bosso si!
Gordorai mo bosso la!
Gordorai mo bosso!
# Brezairola
Lullaby
Balro
$ Malurous quo uno fenno
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Urouzo lo fenno
Quo lom qu li cau!
Urouz inquro maito
O qulo qu no cat
Tradra, ladri, drro, ladra, ladri dra!
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Lo lo lo lo lo
Lo lo lo lo lo
Lo lo lo lo lo
Lo lo lo lo lo
Lo lo lo lo lo
Lo lo lo lo lo
Trois Bourres
Three Bourres
Spring Water
3 Lao d rotso
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The Hunchback
Ound onorn gorda, pitchouno drooulto?
Ound onorn gorda lou troupl pl moti?
Onorn obal din lo ribrto
din lou pradl lrb fresquto;
passern lo fdo pl lo flours,
al loun dl tsour nous forn lamour!
10
Down in Limousin
Down in Limousin, little one,
the young girls are beautiful, ah yes!
There are beautiful girls here too!
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I cannot cross!
How can I cross?
I have no arched bridge,
I have no boat,
Nor do I have a shepherd boy
To be faithful to me!
Aurias lu un batu
S tu ros poulido!
Aurias un pount darcados,
Aurias un pastourel
Qu t serio fidl
E m djusqual toumbel!
La baquetto ro mouno, i!
La baquetto sro mouno, !
Li corno sroun pr bous, lAntouno!
Li corno sroun pr bous!
The Quail
0 La delassdo
Two Bourres
I have no girl
9 Lo calh
Antoine
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Shepherdess
passo d dessa!
passo della lao!
Bendras olprs de iu,
Qu dofare parlorn,
lou restan del jiour
Nen parlorn damour!
7 LAntouno
Deux Bourres
Deserted
Ah! I am deserted!
I do not see my lover;
I thought he loved me, and I love him!
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I cannot cross!
How can I cross?
I have no arched bridge,
I have no boat,
Nor do I have a shepherd boy
To be faithful to me!
Aurias lu un batu
S tu ros poulido!
Aurias un pount darcados,
Aurias un pastourel
Qu t serio fidl
E m djusqual toumbel!
La baquetto ro mouno, i!
La baquetto sro mouno, !
Li corno sroun pr bous, lAntouno!
Li corno sroun pr bous!
The Quail
0 La delassdo
Two Bourres
I have no girl
9 Lo calh
Antoine
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8 Na pas iu de mio
Shepherdess
passo d dessa!
passo della lao!
Bendras olprs de iu,
Qu dofare parlorn,
lou restan del jiour
Nen parlorn damour!
7 LAntouno
Deux Bourres
Deserted
Ah! I am deserted!
I do not see my lover;
I thought he loved me, and I love him!
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Lo lo lo lo lo
Lo lo lo lo lo
Lo lo lo lo lo
Lo lo lo lo lo
Lo lo lo lo lo
Lo lo lo lo lo
Trois Bourres
Three Bourres
Spring Water
3 Lao d rotso
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The Hunchback
Ound onorn gorda, pitchouno drooulto?
Ound onorn gorda lou troupl pl moti?
Onorn obal din lo ribrto
din lou pradl lrb fresquto;
passern lo fdo pl lo flours,
al loun dl tsour nous forn lamour!
10
Down in Limousin
Down in Limousin, little one,
the young girls are beautiful, ah yes!
There are beautiful girls here too!
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2 Balro
Gordorai mo bosso!
Gordorai mo bosso si!
Gordorai mo bosso la!
Gordorai mo bosso!
# Brezairola
Lullaby
Balro
$ Malurous quo uno fenno
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Urouzo lo fenno
Quo lom qu li cau!
Urouz inquro maito
O qulo qu no cat
Tradra, ladri, drro, ladra, ladri dra!
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Bengrou o possa
Trs cobolhs dormado.
There passed by
Three mounted soldiers.
^ O aya
Oh! Ah!
O aya,
coui iu forai?
Nai pas de couoiffo!
Oh! Ah!
What shall I do?
I have no hat.
Pierrou bo lo fiyro,
Pierrou lo li croumpo,
Pierrou lo li pourto,
Pierrou lo li doun,
Inqur s pas lvado,
Dzoma ne se lvo!
Lvo, lvo, lou dzour b!
Morgoridoto, lvot!
O aya,
coui iu forai?
Nai pas de coutilhou!
Oh! Ah!
What shall I do?
I have no petticoat.
Pierrou bo lo fiyro,
Pierrou lo li croumpo etc.
O aya,
coui iu forai?
Que nai pas de comi!
Oh! Ah!
What shall I do?
I have no chemise.
Pierrou bo lo fiyro,
Pierrou lo li croumpo etc.
O, my God!
It is cold,
And I must leave my bed!
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Jean-Claude Casadesus
Born in Paris, Jean-Claude Casadesus studied percussion and composition at the Paris
Conservatoire, composing several scores for cinema and the theatre. He studied conducting
with Pierre Dervaux in Paris and Pierre Boulez in Basel. Appointed permanent conductor at
the Paris Opra and the Opra-Comique in 1969, he contributed to the development of the
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire with Pierre Dervaux and remained its Assistant
Director until 1976. In that year he founded the Orchestre National de Lille and, as Director,
has devoted most of his time and energy to its development since then. Under his direction,
the Orchestra National de Lille has become one of the leading orchestras in France, renowned
in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan for its wide repertoire, its dynamism and the quality of its artistic
vision, based on ethical values and long-term projects. After an invitation to Salzburg in 1985, Jean-Claude
Casadesus has taken the orchestra to Africa and toured Germany and the former Soviet Union to high acclaim.
Further success came with tours to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Hong Kong and Lebanon as well as regular
visits to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw for the Summer Festival, and also to Belgium. In an international career
Jean-Claude Casadesus has appeared in Philadelphia, New York, St Petersburg, Berlin, Moscow, Prague, London,
Vienna, Dresden, Leipzig and Montreal, among other musical centres. His work in the opera-house has taken him
to the Lille Opra, the Opra National de Paris, the Opra National de Lyon , Opra de Monte Carlo and the
Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent. He has made a considerable number of recordings, and is president of
Musique Nouvelle en Libert, reinforcing his strong commitment to contemporary music.
Prenguet lo comi,
E ma lou coutilhou,
E ma lou boborel,
E ma lou moutsodou,
E ss poulidos caussos,
E mett la couoiffo.
Que soui blo!
So digut,
E Morgorido se lvet.
& Lou coucut
The Cuckoo
If all cuckoos
would carry a little bell,
Oh, they would be like five hundred trumpets!
My cuckoo, your cuckoo,
the cuckoo of others.
Say, have you not heard the cuckoo sing?
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Vronique Gens
Marie, je le suis,
Pas ma fantaisie,
Jai pris vieillard jaloux
Qui na pas mes amours!
Married I am,
But not to my liking.
I took a jealous old man
That I do not love!
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Chants dAuvergne
The mountainous province of Auvergne, its name
derived from the Gallic tribe of the Arverni, victorious
under Vercingtorix in resistance to Julius Caesar, has
held an important position in the history of France, from
its conquest in 1190 by Philippe Auguste. In the Middle
Ages there remained a careful balance of power between
local feudal lords, until Auvergne became crown territory
in the sixteenth century. The region has its own patois
and its own cultural traditions. It was from Auvergne that
the family of Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret
stemmed. He himself was born in 1879 at Annonay and
spent his childhood in the countryside of Malaret, in the
south of Auvergne. It was there that he found his first
interest in folk-song. As he later wrote Les chants
paysans slvent bien souvent au niveau de lart le plus
pur, par le sentiment et lexpression, sinon par la forme
(The songs of the peasants very often reach the level of
the purest art in feeling and expression, if not in form).
In 1900, after the death of his mother, he went to Paris,
where he had piano lessons with Amlie Daetzer, a
pupil of Chopin. Two years later he began his study of
counterpoint with Csar Francks pupil Vincent dIndy,
later entering the Schola Cantorum that dIndy had
established, an institution of sound musical principles,
but one that deliberately avoided the regulations and
formalities of the Conservatoire. The Schola Cantorum
gave particular encouragement to the development of
regional musical traditions, an aim that was to suit very
well the views of the monarchist Charles Maurras and
Action franaise. Here Canteloube studied fugue,
composition and orchestration, meeting another disciple
of Franck, Charles Bordes, whose mismanagement of
the affairs of the Schola later led to his own bankruptcy
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A pretty shepherdess
One morning
Sat on the grass,
Wept for her lover!
Lou diziou b
They said
Lou diziou b,
Pierrou, quaymay les drolloy,
Lou diziou b,
Pierrou, quaymay lou bi!
You zayme tout,
Lou bi-t-omay ley drolloy,
M per cauzi,
Preferorio lou bi!
They said,
Pierre, that you loved the girls,
They said,
Pierre, that you loved wine!
I love it all,
Wine and girls,
But for choice,
I would rather have wine!
E leys omours
Bostidos su ley cndr,
Ley foundomn
Soun pro sudjt ol bnt!
S lou bnt b
Empourtoro ley cndr,
May yu to b
Toutjour din ley trumns!
If love
Is built on ashes,
Its foundations
Will give in the wind!
If the wind blows,
It will take the ashes,
As for me,
I am always in torment!
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Joseph
CANTELOUBE
Chants dAuvergne
Vronique Gens, Soprano
Orchestre National de Lille
Jean-Claude Casadesus
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Passo pel prat
Lou boussu
Brezairola
Malurous quo uno fenno
Jou lpount do Mirabel
O aya
Lou coucut
Quand zeyro petitoune
L-haut, sur le rocher
Uno jionto postouro
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Since his death in 1957, Canteloube has become widely known for his folk-song arrangements,
particularly his enchanting Chants dAuvergne which have won increasing popularity. Written between
1924 and 1955, they comprise a series of original folk-songs, some accompanied by instrumental
ensemble, others by full orchestra, evoking the sounds of the countryside. The charming and sensual
songs on this disc are all accompanied by full orchestra, and given a ravishing performance by
Vronique Gens, herself native to the Auvergne region.