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Canteloube

/ kɑ̃tlub; ˈkæntəˌluːb /

noun

  1. Canteloube(Marie) Joseph18791957MFrenchMUSIC: composer ( Marie ) Joseph ( French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The encores included duets from Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte” and Humperdinck’s “Hänsel und Gretel” and, from Ms. Fleming, one of Canteloube’s “Chants d’Auvergne.”

Walton also used the 15th-century “Agincourt Carol,” a patriotic hymn to the 1415 English victory around which the play revolves, as well as a few French folk songs, borrowed from Canteloube’s “Chants d’Auvergne.”

His was constructed around music, especially the folk music of High Auvergne — beyond Joseph Canteloube's orchestrations to the raw originals: wheezy, droning, sorrowful, powerful.

In preparation for this stage, I had dug out my old vinyl recording of Canteloube’s “Songs of the Auvergne,” performed of course by Victoria de los Angeles, just about the most beautiful vocal music I have ever heard, about an inland region where shepherds brag of their sheep and women sing to the hillsides about their lovers.

On the same program as the Stravinsky ballet, the Civic offered seven of Joseph Canteloube's "Songs of the Auvergne," which Julia Bentley sang with a warmly pleasing mezzo and evident feeling for their delicate charm and playful wit.

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