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Mondonville: Pièces de clavecin avec voix ou violon, opus 5
Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville, Hélène Plouffe, Luc Beausejour
Mondonville: Pièces de clavecin avec voix ou violon, opus 5
Genre: Classical
 
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If Mondonville did compose Opus 5 for his wife, her voice was certainly more than merely pleasing, because the vocal line is of a virtuosity that makes it difficult to imagine someone simultaneously performing both voice a...  more »

     
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All Artists: Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville, Hélène Plouffe, Luc Beausejour, Shannon Mercer
Title: Mondonville: Pièces de clavecin avec voix ou violon, opus 5
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Label: Analekta
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 4/6/2007
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 774204992026

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If Mondonville did compose Opus 5 for his wife, her voice was certainly more than merely pleasing, because the vocal line is of a virtuosity that makes it difficult to imagine someone simultaneously performing both voice and harpsichord parts. In fact, the composer himself recommends studying the parts separately and, in the vocal part to carefully "distinguish phrases having a French flavour from those requiring an Italian flavour" - another example of this piece's fusion of styles. Indeed, one will note how the vocal part tends to alternate between French-style passages, which are more syllabic and punctuated with short, incisively accented ornaments, and Italian-style passagi, virtuosic phrases of many notes sung over a single syllable of text.