Sounds, colors and scents can conjure up places of longing. During the Romantic period, the desire to travel and see other places was seen as an expression of some inner state of mind. In L'invitation au voyage, the boundaries between what is real and imaginary seem to dissolve in the lyrical perception of a journey to the inner self: “There we find nothing but order and beauty, splendor, peace, and delight”. This is unattainable perfection as a place of longing, where we are freed from all earthly cares. A never-ending sixteenth-note figure in the piano accompaniment flickers like a shimmering veil over these words, which in their poetry seem to remove us far from our earthly existence: “The world falls asleep in a warm light!”
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. 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 songs 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)Einladung zur ReiseMein Kind, meine Schwester,
denk nur, wie lieblich es wäre,
dorthin zu gehen, um zusammen zu leben,
in aller Ruhe zu lieben,
zu lieben und zu sterben
in dem Land, das dir gleicht!Die feuchten Sonnen
dieser trüben Himmel
haben für meinen Geist
den so geheimnisvollen Zauber
deiner verräterischen Augen,
die durch ihre Tränen hindurch glänzen.Dort ist alles nur Ordnung und Schönheit,
Pracht, Ruhe und Wonne.Sieh auf jenen Kanälen
die Schiffe schlafen,
deren Gelüste hin und her schweifen;
um dein kleinstes Begehren
zu stillen,
kommen sie vom Ende der Welt.Die untergehenden Sonnen
bekleiden die Felder,
die Kanäle, die ganze Stadt,
mit Jazinth und Gold;
die Welt entschlummert
in einem warmen Licht!Dort ist alles nur Ordnung und Schönheit,
Pracht, Ruhe und Wonne.Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
Übersetzung: Christiane Rouger-Ortwein (*1977)
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, originalhtml file, singing text, original (Sample)L’invitation au voyage
Mon enfant, ma sœur,
Songe à la douceur
D’aller là-bas vivre ensemble,
Aimer à loisir,
Aimer et mourir
Au pays qui te ressemble !Les soleils mouillés
De ces ciels brouillés
Pour mon esprit ont les charmes
Si mystérieux
De tes traîtres yeux,
Brillant à travers leurs larmes.Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.Vois sur ces canaux
Dormir ces vaisseaux
Dont l’humeur est vagabonde ;
C’est pour assouvir
Ton moindre désir
Qu’ils viennent du bout du monde.Les soleils couchants
Revêtent les champs,
Les canaux, la ville entière,
D’hyacinthe et d’or ;
Le monde s’endort
Dans une chaude lumière !Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté !Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
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Composer
Henri Duparc
| 1848-1933
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Songwriter / Librettist
Charles Baudelaire
| 1821-1867
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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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