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NEW FRENCH SONG
Alison Smart (soprano),
Katharine Durran (piano)

New French Song has created a whole new repertoire of songs by British composers.
The artists commissioned twenty exceptional British composers, some of whom were well established, others of whom were yet to receive the recognition they deserve. The composers were asked to set French literature of their choice from the past two hundred years. The result is a fascinating rainbow work covering all the major literary movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, overlapping into the twenty-first century – Romanticism, Symbolism, Surrealism, Cubism, Modernism and post-Modernism.

playing time: 79.36  
direct sale price:  £8.50
audio  sample: Le Pont Mirabeau (by Howard Skempton) 
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tracks:
O'Regan: Sainte
Harrison: ...issu stellaire..
Todd: Le Pont Mirabeau
Cowie: Les Hiboux
Chilcott: L'enfant dort
Casken: Colloque Sentimental
Crane: Tour de France Statistics 1902-2003
Gorb: La Cloche Fêlée
Jackson: A la Mémoire de Claude Debussy
Finnissy: Salomé
Keeling: Artemis
Wood: Alicante
Burrell: Longtemps ce fut l'été
Roe: Pourquoi?
LeFanu: Billet à Whistler
McGuire: Rêves de la Bonne Heure
Bingham: La Jeune Morte
Redgate: Mirlitonnades
Skempton: Le Pont Mirabeau
Fitkin: Les Aliments Blancs

review extracts:
"excellent CD" - Iain Cameron
Smart and Durran in concert: New French Song premiere at the Purcell Room July 2004:
"excellent musicians with a strong mutual rapport" (Independent)
"powerful sense of atmosphere" (Independent)
"Alison Smart ... elicited a really  impressive range of colours and contours, comfortably handling the stylistic changes between songs...With a remarkable sensitivity and wide pallet of colours, Katharine Durran’s playing was a musical lesson in Art history." (Musical Opinion)