Love is light, enchanting, divine, infinite and eternal. Gabriel Fauré's setting of these words from Armand Silvestre's poetry is similary as a feather and enchanting. The melody and piano accompaniment reflect the carefree nature of the lovers who celebrate Notre amour (Our love). The song is given a special colorfulness in the choral sound of Denis Rouger’s sensitive arrangement.
This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing 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 mélodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.
The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD ...wo die Zitronen blühn (Carus 83.514).
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, german translationhtml file, singing text, german translation (Sample)Unbenanntes DokumentUnsere Liebe ist etwas Leichtes,
wie die Düfte, die der Wind
von den Spitzen des Farns nimmt,
damit man sie im Traum riecht;
– unsere Liebe ist etwas Leichtes!Unsere Liebe ist etwas Bezauberndes,
wie die Lieder des Morgens,
in denen keinerlei Reue klagt,
in denen eine unbestimmte Hoffnung schwingt;
– unsere Liebe ist etwas Bezauberndes!Unsere Liebe ist etwas Heiliges,
wie die Geheimnisse des Waldes,
in dem eine unbeachtete Seele erschauert,...
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, originalhtml file, singing text, original (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument
Notre amour est chose légère,
Comme les parfums que le vent
Prend aux cimes de la fougère,
Pour qu'on les respire en rêvant ;
– Notre amour est chose légère !Notre amour est chose charmante,
Comme les chansons du matin,
Où nul regret ne se lamente,
Où vibre un espoir incertain ;
– Notre amour est chose charmante !Notre amour est chose sacrée,
Comme les mystères des bois,
Où tressaille une âme ignorée,...
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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
Armand Silvestre
| 1837-1901
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Arranger
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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