My verses would flee, sweet and fragile hugo the liedernet. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the french classical tradition of the melodie. Des racines et des ailes is broadcast two wednesdays per month on the france 3 television network and is rebroadcast on tv5. Hawkins, paul jr scholarly program notes on the graduate vocal recital of paul hawkins jr summer 2016. Translations by richard stokes, from a french song companion oxford, 2000.
Play streams in full or download mp3 from classical archives, the largest and best organized classical music site on the web. Bbc wales cardiff singer of the world 2009 recital one. If my songs had wings remains one of his bestloved and most frequently performedsongs. With all machine translations, you must be careful. Reynaldo hahn was a venezuelan, naturalised french, composer, conductor, music critic, diarist, theatre director, and salon singer. With speechlike vocal lines that are nonetheless lyrical, and a fluid and complementary piano accompaniment, the songs tap the emotional resonance of their poetic texts. Hahn was a child prodigy who attained fame at the age of 14 with his first published song, the attractive if my verses have wings 1888, which is included in the graham disc.
The youthfulness of the composer he was thirteen makes its. Other titles were my songs with wings provided parallel translated title author. Like every other french song composer of the time, reynaldo was drawn to the. Chloris offer a sense of hahns musical aesthetic and his approach to text setting. Scholarly program notes on the graduate vocal recital. Pauline donalda 1907, ninon vallin, beverly sills, elisabeth schwartzkopf, tino rossi 1954, beverly sills note.