Love is light, enchanting, divine, infinite and eternal. Gabriel Fauré's setting of these words from Armand Silvestre's poetry is similary as a feather and enchanting. The melody and piano accompaniment reflect the carefree nature of the lovers who celebrate Notre amour (Our love). The song is given a special colorfulness in the choral sound of Denis Rouger’s sensitive arrangement.
This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French mélodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.
The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD "... Wo die Zitronen blühn" (Carus 83.514).
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, German translationhtml file, Singing text, German translation (Sample)Unbenanntes DokumentUnsere Liebe ist etwas Leichtes,
wie die Düfte, die der Wind
von den Spitzen des Farns nimmt,
damit man sie im Traum riecht;
– unsere Liebe ist etwas Leichtes!Unsere Liebe ist etwas Bezauberndes,
wie die Lieder des Morgens,
in denen keinerlei Reue klagt,
in denen eine unbestimmte Hoffnung schwingt;
– unsere Liebe ist etwas Bezauberndes!Unsere Liebe ist etwas Heiliges,
wie die Geheimnisse des Waldes,
in dem eine unbeachtete Seele erschauert,...
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, originalhtml file, Singing text, original (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument
Notre amour est chose légère,
Comme les parfums que le vent
Prend aux cimes de la fougère,
Pour qu'on les respire en rêvant ;
– Notre amour est chose légère !Notre amour est chose charmante,
Comme les chansons du matin,
Où nul regret ne se lamente,
Où vibre un espoir incertain ;
– Notre amour est chose charmante !Notre amour est chose sacrée,
Comme les mystères des bois,
Où tressaille une âme ignorée,...
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Composer
Gabriel Fauré
| 1845-1924
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Songwriter / Librettist
Armand Silvestre
| 1837-1901
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Arranger
Denis Rouger
| 1961Denis Rouger grew up as the son of a family of musicians in Paris, where he learned trumpet, horn, piano and singing. He studied composition at the CNSM (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique), obtaining first prizes in harmony, fugue and counterpoint. He studied choral conducting in France and Holland at the Kurt Thomas Academy and received the Certificat d’Aptitude for vocal ensembles from the Ministry of Culture.
As “Professeur agrégé” at the University of Paris-Sorbonne he conducted the “Choeur de Paris-Sorbonne” and taught choral conducting for twenty years. From 1993 to 2003, he was choirmaster at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral and from 2005 to 2006 at the Madeleine Church, where he received the title of “Honorary Music Director.”
He has conducted numerous professional and amateur ensembles, among others in Germany – where he was invited as a guest conductor by the Landesjugendchor Baden-Württemberg and the Balthasar Neumann Chor, as well as by radio choirs in Hamburg (NDR) and Stuttgart (SWR) –, Italy, Holland, Canada, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland (Lucerne Festival). He has also collaborated in several world premieres of contemporary works by Klaus Huber, N’guyen Thien Dao, Philippe Mazé and Yves Castagnet, among others. Denis Rouger gives master classes in choral conducting in Sweden, Bulgaria, France, Germany and Switzerland.
In April 2011, Denis Rouger was appointed Professor of Choral Conducting at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. The Chamber Choir of the Musikhochschule, which he founded in autumn 2011, won first prize at the International Choir Competition in Mosbach (Germany) in 2014. In collaboration with Carus the choral book French Choral Music has been published as well as the debut CD of the figure humaine kammerchor, founded in 2016 by Denis Rouger.
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