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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: The Songs of Duparc

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: The Songs of Duparc: Episode 1

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The Songs of Duparc

Episode 1

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Tenor John Mark Ainsley and pianist Joseph Middleton perform songs by Duparc and Franck.

From Aberdeen's Cowdray Hall, tenor John Mark Ainsley and pianist Joseph Middleton perform songs by Duparc, plus Franck, Chaminade, d'Indy, Chausson, Bordes and de Breville.

Tenor John Mark Ainsley and pianist Joseph Middleton present the first of four concerts exploring the songs of Duparc.

The name Henri Duparc is admitted into the great roll-call of French song composers on account of only 16 solo songs and a duet. Born in 1848, by the time he was 35 he had written the songs that were to ensure his musical immortality and, due to an obscure nervous disease, he wrote no more until he died, aged 85, in 1933. Duparc's first song was written in 1868, a year before the death of Berlioz; his last in 1884, a year after the death of Wagner. He destroyed many compositions, such was his perfectionist nature. This series seeks to place Duparc's solo songs in the wider context of his friends, influences and contemporaries, thus highlighting his remarkable gift for setting poetry for voice and piano.

In this first concert from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen, they contrast his songs with those of his teacher César Franck and other contemporary composers Chaminade, D'Indy, Bordes and De Bréville.

DUPARC Chanson triste; Soupir
FRANCK Le mariage des roses; La procession
CHAMINADE Chanson triste
DE SEVERAC Paysages tristes
D'INDY Lied maritime; Madrigal
CHAMINADE L'amour captif
CHAUSSON Serenade; Nanny; Sérénade italienne; Apaisement
BORDES Colloque sentimental
DE BREVILLE Harmonie du soir
DUPARC Le galop; Sérénade florentine

John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Joseph Middleton, piano.

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Duparc's songs in the wider context of musical friends, influences and contemporaries

Series of programmes placing the songs of Duparc in the wider context of his musical friends, influences and contemporaries, highlighting his gift for setting poetry for voice and piano.

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