One hit wonders

[Roger Webb]

There's a very attractive Suite for flute and piano too - typically French and none the worse for that. Memorable.

Thanks for that....I've just saved it for later on Qobuz, the version with the excellent Robert Aitken on BIS 184. I don't know how this disc escaped me, as I'm a bit of a nut for french flute - do you know Aitken's flute and harp CD BIS 650? Inghelbrecht's Sonatine for flute and harp is the discovery on that, as well as Joseph Lauber.

[gurnemanz]

I have a soft spot for Reynaldo Hahn. His lovely mélodie, À Chloris, does tend to appear to the exclusion of other compositions. I have in recent years invested in two very desirable 'complete' sets:

Songs Tassis Christoyannis (baritone) and Jeff Cohen (piano), thanks yet again to Bru Zane for their devotion to the byways of the French repertoire.

Solo piano Cristina Ariagno playing a resplendent-sounding Fazioli grand.

Hear the man himself sing and accompany himself via YouTube.

[mopsus]

I have a soft spot for Reynaldo Hahn. His lovely mélodie, À Chloris, does tend to appear to the exclusion of other compositions. I have in recent years invested in two very desirable 'complete' sets:

Songs Tassis Christoyannis (baritone) and Jeff Cohen (piano), thanks yet again to Bru Zane for their devotion to the byways of the French repertoire.

Solo piano Cristina Ariagno playing a resplendent-sounding Fazioli grand.

Hear the man himself sing and accompany himself via YouTube.

I learnt some of his songs, including À Chloris of course, a few years ago, but found it very hard to get hold of sheet music for them.

[Roger Webb]

I have a soft spot for Reynaldo Hahn. His lovely mélodie, À Chloris, does tend to appear to the exclusion of other compositions. I have in recent years invested in two very desirable 'complete' sets:

Songs Tassis Christoyannis (baritone) and Jeff Cohen (piano), thanks yet again to Bru Zane for their devotion to the byways of the French repertoire.

Solo piano Cristina Ariagno playing a resplendent-sounding Fazioli grand.

Hear the man himself sing and accompany himself via YouTube.

As I have mentioned above Widor's Piano Quintets, perhaps I should do the same for Hahn, there's a lovely disc on Valois label with Alexandre Tharaud and the Quatuor Parisii, who also play a couple of Hahn's String Qts.

On the song side, Véronique Gens has a collection on the Alpha label with Hahn, Chausson and Duparc.....the inevitable 'À Cloris' of course, but the discovery for me was the setting of Daudet, 'Trois jours de vendange', a mini tragedy in three acts/verses!

[Roslynmuse]

I have a soft spot for Reynaldo Hahn. His lovely mélodie, À Chloris, does tend to appear to the exclusion of other compositions. I have in recent years invested in two very desirable 'complete' sets:

Songs Tassis Christoyannis (baritone) and Jeff Cohen (piano), thanks yet again to Bru Zane for their devotion to the byways of the French repertoire.

Solo piano Cristina Ariagno playing a resplendent-sounding Fazioli grand.

Hear the man himself sing and accompany himself via YouTube.

My favourite work by Hahn is the two piano suite Le ruban dénoué. There's an excellent set on Nimbus of all the two piano/piano duet music of Hahn and Tailleferre, plus some interesting pieces by Koechlin, played by Martin Jones and Adrian Farmer.

[Roslynmuse]

I learnt some of his songs, including À Chloris of course, a few years ago, but found it very hard to get hold of sheet music for them.

There are three volumes of his Mélodies readily available on the Presto site from Leduc/Heugel. Together they contain around 60 songs, with the first two including all the most popular ones.

[french frank]

I am 53 and know a tune or two, and have indeed certainly heard the said Intermezzo once or twice but I have zero aural memory of it, or of any of Cav or Pag except ‘vesti la giubba’.

My first acquaintance with 'classical music' was listening to a battered 78 of the Intermezzo which got stuck in a groove as the music was building up to a climax. It was nudged on manually and not very carefully. I was then about 8 and it was my favourite record. I think I first saw the opera in 1996 (WNO with Dennis O'Neill and Anne-Marie Owens).

[smittims]

Widor was I think the oldest composer to record his own music . Born in 1844, he recorded some pieces on the organ of S.Sulpice in 1932.

He was not of course the first composer to record. Grieg made some piano discs early in the century. Elgar made his first recording in January 1914.