Marianne Lihannah (Mezzo Soprano) and Pete Rosser (Piano) - Poulenc: Montparnasse

from Centuries of Songs by Marianne Lihannah (Mezzo) Pete Rosser (Piano)

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This is a Live Recording from Marianne Lihannah's ATCL Diploma Concert in Singing from Trinity College London. Pete Rosser is the pianist.
‘Montparnasse’
'Montparnasse' evokes the Montparnasse district of South Paris as perceived by an inexperienced young poet.'
It took Poulenc 4 years to complete this song, which he considers as one of his best songs. From Poulenc's diary he writes: "Anything that concerns Paris, I approach with tears in my eyes and my head full of music". Apparently he was never at home outside Paris. Some composers are technical virtuosos, but Poulenc was a virtuoso of feeling, born at exactly the moment when French culture needed such a thing to make sense of its contradictions.
Poulenc captures the atmosphere of the 20'es and the 30'ies from within.
An elegant non-chalant calm becomes associated with Paris in this song, so much that one can almost taste it.
The Apollinaire poem is self-reflective, expressing his own doubts about his poetic vision and his uncertain identity. He wonders if he will be like the pot plants in the lobby of his hotel? Pretty, but doomed to bear no fruit.

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from Centuries of Songs, released August 27, 2018

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Marianne Lihannah England, UK

Marianne Lihannah is a versatile mezzo soprano, equally at home across several genres.
She holds various diplomas in singing and music performance and is the singer in the duo Elyssia.
Marianne also plays the nyckelharpa

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