The writer Charles Marie René Leconte, born on the French island of La Réunion, published his literary works under the nom de plume Leconte de Lisle (The Count of the island). His poem Nell, a poetic vow of eternal fidelity to the beloved, was written in 1852 and set to music by Gabriel Fauré in 1878. Long vocal phrases unfold over continuous sixteenth-note figurations in the piano, which combine emphatic depictions of nature and affirmations of love both in text and music.
These art songs were originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted them to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.
The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land... (Carus 83.495).
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, originalhtml file, singing text, original (Sample)Ta rose de pourpre, à ton clair soleil,
Ô Juin, étincelle enivrée ;
Penche aussi vers moi ta coupe dorée :
Mon cœur à ta rose est pareil.Sous le mol abri de la feuille ombreuse
Monte un soupir de volupté ;
Plus d’un ramier chante au bois écarté,
Ô mon cœur, sa plainte amoureuse.Que ta perle est douce au ciel enflammé,
Etoile de la nuit pensive !
Mais combien plus douce est la clarté vive
Qui rayonne en mon cœur charmé !La chantante mer, le long du rivage,
Taira son murmure éternel,
Avant qu’en mon cœur, chère amour,
Ô Nell, ne fleurisse plus ton image !Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894)
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Deine purpurne Rose, oh Juni,
glänzt betörend deiner hellen Sonne entgegen;
neige auch zu mir deinen goldenen Kelch:
mein Herz strahlt deiner Rose gleichso entgegen.Unter dem sachten Schutz des schattenspendenden Laubes
steigt ein wonnevoller Seufzer empor;
mehr als eine Ringeltaube singt im entlegenen Wald,
oh mein Herz, ihre Liebesklage.Wie lieblich ist deine Perle am flammenden Himmel, Stern der gedankenvollen Nacht!
Aber wieviel lieblicher ist die strahlende Helligkeit,
die in meinem bezauberten Herzen leuchtet!Eher wird das singende Meer entlang seines Ufers
sein ewiges Gemurmel verstummen lassen,
als dass mein Herz, teuerste Geliebte,
oh Nell, nicht mehr dein Bild erblühen lässt.Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894)
Übersetzung: Christiane Rouger-Ortwein
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Composer
Gabriel Fauré
| 1845-1924French composer, 1845-1924.
He was a pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns and studied at the Paris School of Sacred Music. Fauré worked as an organist and choirmaster and gave piano lessons and recitals in Parisian salons. He was able to improvise brilliantly on the piano, which is also reflected in his compositions. He was director of the Paris Conservatoire from 1905 to 1920.
Fauré mainly wrote vocal, piano and chamber music. He is best known for his piano songs for solo voice and his Requiem, which was also performed at his own funeral service.
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Songwriter / Librettist
Charles Leconte de Lisle
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Denis Rouger
| 1961Denis Rouger gained his initial musical experience as the son of a Parisian family of musicians and during his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he received first prizes in harmony, fugue and counterpoint.
He was a lecturer and choirmaster at the University of Paris-Sorbonne for 20 years and choirmaster at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral for 10 years. He is honorary conductor of the Parisian church La Madeleine. He also collaborates with numerous ensembles in Germany. He has been invited as a guest conductor by radio choirs, the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Choir and the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Concerts have taken him to Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland (Lucerne Festival).
He gives master classes in Sweden, Bulgaria, France, Germany, as well as in Switzerland.
Denis Rouger has been Professor of Choral Conducting at the Stuttgart State University of Music and Performing Arts since 2011. The chamber choir he founded at the university in the fall of 2011 won first prize at the International Choir Competition in Mosbach (Germany) in 2014.
In addition to his work as a choirmaster, he composes and arranges French and German songs for choir. His arrangements on the CDs Kennst Du das Land ... and ... wo die Zitronen blühn (Carus) were well received by the press and radio. In collaboration with Carus-Verlag, he has edited the choir book Französische Chormusik, which received the German Music Edition Award “Best Edition” in 2019.
In 2016, Denis Rouger founded the figure humaine kammerchor (www.figurehumaine.de), with which he regularly gives concerts at renowned festivals.
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