Lo Fiolairé
| Lo fiolairé | |
|---|---|
| Genre | folk |
| Text | anonymous |
| Language | Auvergnat |
| Performed | Madeleine Grey Victoria de los Ángeles Cathy Berberian Kiri Te Kanawa Luisa Castellani Frederica von Stade |
"Lo Fiolairé" (occitan la fialaire, the spinner) is a traditional Occitan song, from the region of Aurillac and Haute-Auvergne, composed by an anonymous author in the Occitan language.
History and content
[edit]The piece was recovered by the composer Joseph Canteloube between 1923 and 1930 and inserted in the collection Chants d'Auvergne (Songs from Auvergne),[1] where he transcribed it with arrangement for soprano and orchestra. In 1964 Luciano Berio transcribed the piece in turn, with an arrangement for voice (mezzo-soprano), flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, viola and cello. The musical piece was included in the song cycle Folk Songs collection and was recorded by his Armenian wife, Cathy Berberian.[2][3]
It is a canso, a poetic composition, composed of twelve lines (four triplets, the rhymes are identical in all the stanzas; there is also the rima estamp, which is found in the same place from verse to verse (coblas unisonans).
The song tells the story of a shepherdess who remembers that when she was very young, while she was looking after the flock, she also had a stick to spin and had called a shepherd to help her, but he in return asked him for a kiss and she, who was not an ungrateful one, he gave her two.[4]
Other versions
[edit]- Arleen Auger
- Sara Macliver
- Netania Davrath
- Sarah Davis
- Albena Kechlibareva
- Orna Arania
- Dawn Upshaw
- Véronique Gens
Discography
[edit]- 1964, Luciano Berio, Folk Songs
- 2005, Osvaldo Golijov in the CD Ayre, with Dawn Upshaw & The Andalucian Dogs, Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Guide de la mélodie et du lied. Brigitte, ... François-Sappey, Gilles, ... Cantagrel. [Paris]: Fayard. 1994. pp. 107–109. ISBN 2-213-59210-1. OCLC 417117290.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Philippe Macé, Luciano Berio, Marc Ducret, Sarah L. Lefèvre, etc. – Jazz Magazine" (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ Serrou, Bruno (22 May 2003). "Chants des mondes d'Ars Nova". ResMusica (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ "Lo Fiolairé (La fileuse), ... | Details". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ ArkivMusic.com