François Guierre - L'heure Exquise flac album

L'Heure d'été is a 2005 album recorded by French artist Marc Lavoine. It was his ninth studio album and his 12th album overall. Released on May 23, 2005, it was successful in the francophone countries. L'Heure d'été provided two hit singles : "Je me sens si seul" ( in France) and "Toi mon amour" ( in France). Tu m'as renversé" and "J'espère", a duet with Belgium singer of Vietnamese descent Quynh Anh, were just released as promotional singles.

François Guierre Auteur Compositeur Interprète.

Marie-Nicole Lemieux. L' Heure exquise, for voice & piano (No. 5 from Chansons grises). Marie-Nicole Lemieux. 10. Fêtes galantes (text by Verlaine), for voice & piano (from "Melodies, Book I").

In the streets of Marseille, René Allio encounters, once again, the spaces of his childhood, and remembers his family history.

One of his most exquisite mélodies is his setting of the great French ‘poète maudit’ (ill-fated poet) Paul Verlaine’s L’heure exquise, from the poetic anthology Fêtes galantes of 1869. The title comes from the Antoine Watteau’s early seventeenth-century rococo paintings of exquisitely dressed young people playing at love in pastoral landscapes; the melancholy beneath the frivolous surface tells us that all earthly pleasures are brief. In Hahn’s setting, a transparent accompaniment gently rises and falls while the singer’s voice murmurs languorously from within the texture. Voyage à Paris and Hôtel both come from Poulenc’s wartime song cycle Banalités to poems by the Surrealist poet Guillaume Apollinaire.