Poulenc: La Voix humaine, Fiançailles pour rire Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Frédéric Chaslin

• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Les chemins de l'amour, FP 106 (Transc. for Soprano and Orchestra by Frédéric Chaslin):
• 1 Poulenc: Les chemins de l'amour, FP 106 (Transc. for Soprano and Orchestra by Frédéric Chaslin) 04:03
• La voix humaine, FP 171:
• 2 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Introduction 00:52
• 3 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Allô, allô… 01:04
• 4 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Allô ! c'est toi ? 01:14
• 5 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Hier soir, je me suis couchée tout de suite 01:56
• 6 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Allô ! chéri… Si on coupe, redemande-moi tout de suite 01:13
• 7 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Quelle comédie ? 01:36
• 8 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Souviens-toi du dimanche de Versailles 01:48
• 9 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Demain ? Je ne savais pas que c'était si rapide 00:56
• 10 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Allô… et comme ça ? 01:50
• 11 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Oh ! non, mon chéri, surtout ne me regarde pas 02:47
• 12 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Allô, allô, mademoiselle 02:19
• 13 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Allô ! ah ! chéri, c'est toi ? 04:20
• 14 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Hier soir, j'ai voulu prendre un comprimé 02:07
• 15 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Il était quatre heures du matin 01:56
• 16 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Allô ! J'entends de la musique… 01:10
• 17 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Pardonne-moi. Je sais que cette scène est intolérable 00:34
• 18 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Avant-hier soir ? J'ai dormi 04:26
• 19 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Allô ! Allô ! Madame, retirez-vous 02:51
• 20 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Sois tranquille. On ne se suicide pas deux fois 01:57
• 21 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Allô !... Allô !... Mon Dieu, faites qu'il redemande 04:20
• 22 Poulenc: La voix humaine, FP 171: Alors, voilà… J'allais dire machinalement : à tout de suite 02:04
• Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101 (Transc. for Soprano and Orchestra by Frédéric Chaslin):
• 23 Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101 (Transc. for Soprano and Orchestra by Frédéric Chaslin): La dame d'André 01:39
• 24 Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101 (Transc. for Soprano and Orchestra by Frédéric Chaslin): Dans l'herbe 01:56
• 25 Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101 (Transc. for Soprano and Orchestra by Frédéric Chaslin): Il vole 01:59
• 26 Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101 (Transc. for Soprano and Orchestra by Frédéric Chaslin): Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant 02:48
• 27 Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101 (Transc. for Soprano and Orchestra by Frédéric Chaslin): Violon 01:47
• 28 Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101 (Transc. for Soprano and Orchestra by Frédéric Chaslin): Fleurs 02:06
• Total Runtime 59:38

Info for Poulenc: La Voix humaine, Fiançailles pour rire

In 1958 Poulenc composed La voix humaine, a one-act opera for soprano and orchestra, based on the monodrama of the same name, written for the Comédie-Française by his friend Jean Cocteau. In this staging of the end of an amorous relationship, we hear only the woman’s side of a final telephone conversation with the man who has abandoned her. The orchestra in this innovative work is used not only to unify the composition, but also to reveal what the voice, laid bare by a moving parlé-chanté style, does not say.

Fiançailles pour rire and Chemins de l’amour, usually for voice and piano, but presented here in an orchestrated version by one of our finest conductors, Frédéric Chaslin, completes this eloquent rendition of works of a bittersweetness that Poulenc transcends like no other.

Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, soprano
Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia
Frederic Chaslin, conductor

Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann
First prize winner of the Conservatoire Nancy for voice (Christine Stutzmann’s class), harp, chamber music and analysis, graduated in musicology, finalist of multiple international music competitions (Canari, Caballé, Bellini, Epinal), Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann joins the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, studying with Renata Scotto and Teresa Berganza. Julie continues her quest for excellence with Béatrice Uria-Monzon and the maestra Elizabeth Cooper .

Julie is a guest artist at the Festival des Forêts and has the support of the Villecroze Foundation.

Very fast, Julie addresses a very wide ‘répertoire’, including, in opera, title roles such as Juliette – Roméo et Juliette, Antonia – les Contes d’Hoffmann, Susanna – Les Noces de Figaro, Mickaëla – Carmen, The Woman – La Voix Humaine.

She regularly performs in recitals and cycles of among others, Poulenc, Fauré, Debussy, Schubert’s lieder, Turina, de Falla, Liszt.

She is frequently invited to give sacred music concerts, such as the requiem of Mozart, Fauré, Brahms; King David – Honneger, and was particularly noticed in her interpretation of Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate.

She has, during her career, had the pleasure to work with the conductors Kanako Abe, Luciano Acocella, Didier Benetti, Denis Comtet, Philippe Entremont, Marco Guidarini, Samuel Jean, Julien Leroy, Yo Yo Ma, Jacques Mercier, Patrizia Mezler, Dominique Rouits, Arie van Beek, Pascal Verrot,Elizabeth Cooper as well as with the prestigious ensemble such as the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the China National Orchestra, Manheim’s Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, the Orchestre national de Lorraine, the orchestras of Picardie, Avignon, Montpellier, the Nancy Opera Orchestra, the Metz Choir and Ballet,the Orchestre Lamoureux, Octuor de France, the musicians Gilles Apap, Fanny Clamagirand, Dana Ciocarlie, Nicholas Dautricourt, Marion Desjacques, Philippe Entremont, Etsuko Hiroshé, Sebastien Van Kuijk, Yo Yo Ma, Véra Tsybakov.

Her concerts have taken her in many Opera houses such as Massy, Metz and Nancy in France, Brasov in Romania, Anghiari in Italy, Beijing in China as well as numerous concert halls across the world: the Antique Theatre of Orange, Imperial theatre of Compiègne, of the Chatelet, Academia Santa Cecilia- Rome, Knight Concert Hall – Miami, Kravis center – Palm Beach, Mechanics Hall – Worcester, Radio France – Paris.

Currently, Julie is working on the roles of the Flute’s First Lady & Pamina, as well as Juliette, Manon and Leïla; and prepares a Poulenc recording.

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