Du Livre pour toi From "The Book for You" by Caroline Charriere Mezzo-Soprano Voice - Sheet Music
By Caroline Charriere
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Du Livre pour toi
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Mezzo soprano and piano - Grade 3-4
SKU: ET.V70
From "The Book for You". Composed by Caroline Charriere. Swiss Composers Series. Contemporary. Composed 1999. Duration 25 minutes. Editions BIM #V70. Published by Editions BIM (ET.V70).ISBN 9790207003119. Text by Marguerite Burnat-Provins.
Du Livre pour toi [From “The Book for You"]
The singer Brigitte Balleys, who commissioned this cycle, gave the first performance at the Concert-Portrait Series organized by the Women’s Music Forum in Bern (Switzerland) in January 2003.
After numerous readings of the one hundred poems of the “Livre pour toi" [The Book for You] by Marguerite Burnat-Provins (1872-1952) published by Editions de l’Aire, Vevey, Switzerland, I selected ten that trace the curve of a nascent love and its slow decline, in spite of the traces of hope which appear in the last song. Later, I subsequently added “Ecouter et ne rien entendre" [Listening and hearing nothing] and “Tu m’as dit: Viens..." [You said come to me...] acting on the request of Brigitte Balleys and pianist Eric Cerantola, who wanted a longer cycle. I added titles to each song. The original poems in the book are simply indicated here by roman numbers.
I tried to retranscribe all the facets of that love, from the shyness and trembling in its early stages to the full blown passion, lightness, softness, jealousy, despair, supplication, and finally, of a certain sadness.
Caroline Charrière, december 2009, Fribourg, Switzerland.
