Live Video: D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn) – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink

Albert Combrink2013-06-30T21:17:04+02:00

D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn) Sarah Acres (Cello), Albert Combrink (Piano)

Live Amateur Video recorded at the Casa Labia Cultural Center, Muizenberg, Cape Town, 13 June 2013

This version for Cello and Piano Arranged by Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink
Website: Sarah Acres – http://www.facebook.com/CellistInTheCity
Website: Albert Combrink – https://www.albertcombrink.com
Twitter: @albertcombrink

Read more about the song here:
https://www.albertcombrink.com/2013/06/30/dun-prison-reynaldo-hahn/

Gustave Caillebotte, Jeune homme à la fenêtre (Young man at the window), c. [read more…]

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La mer est plus belle (Claude Debussy)

Albert Combrink2013-05-18T11:42:50+02:00

“La mer est plus belle”, L. 81 no. 1 (1891)

Published 1891 [voice and piano], from Trois mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Hamelle, by Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) , set to a text by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) , no title, from Sagesse, in Sagesse III, no. 15, published 1880, dedicated to Ernest Chausson.

References to the sea abound in Debussy’s works, sometimes by directly giving them titles that refer to the ocean or water, as well as the surging rolling of waves of sound that characterises so much of his compositional style. It appears that references to the sea also refer like a [read more…]

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Claire de Lune Op. 46 No 2 (Gabriel Fauré)

Albert Combrink2013-05-11T20:53:04+02:00

Claire de Lune (Menuet) Op. 46 No 2 (1887) – Gabriel Fauré

"Even while singing, in a minor key,

of victorious love and fortunate living,

they do not seem to believe in their happiness"

Regarded by many as the quintessential French Melodié, it is hard to imagine the tempestuous relationships led by its creators. The poet attempted to kill his lover in a jealous rage, and the composer, slipping into depression in an unsatisfying marriage, was extremely attractive to women and “his conquests were legion in the Paris salons.” [Duchen, Jessica. “A still, small voice”, The Guardian, 24 November 1995, p. A12]

Fauré [read more…]

Claire de Lune Op. 46 No 2 (Gabriel Fauré)Albert Combrink2013-05-11T20:53:04+02:00