This CD Sheet Music™ collection [2 CDRs] makes available the extensive repertoire of French arts songs -- over 600 individual songs (many not easily available) by 20 composers; many songs presented in both original and alternate keys.

CD 1: BERLIOZ Les nuits d’été (6); BIZET La chanson de la rose (18); BOULANGER Clairières dans le ciel (13); CANTELOUBE Chants Populiares de Haute Auvergne 1 & 2 (26); CAPLET Cinq Ballades Français (15); CHABRIER (15); CHAUSSON Chansons de Shakespeare (38); DEBUSSY Ariettes Oubliées, Chansons de Bilitis, Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire, Fêtes galantes (1 & 2), Trois ballades de François Villon, Trois poèmes de Mallarmé(48); DELIBES Les filles de Cadix (2); DUPARC Chasons Triste, Extase (17); FAURÉ Cinq Mélodies, Songs Op. 23, 39, 42, 26, 51, 57, 76, 83, 85, 87, 94 (101); GOUNOD Au printemps, Boléro, Chant d’automne, Invocation; Mignon, Rêverie, Solitude, Venise(80)

CD 2: HAHN: Chansons Grises, Venezia, Twenty Mélodies (Volumes I & II) (58); D’INDY Lied maritime (2); MASSENET: Poème d’amour (Volumes 1-13) (167); MILHAUD: Poèmes de la connaisance, Poèmes Juifs (15)

Added features: alphabetical indexes for searching by title, first line or poet

Also includes: composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

3700+ pages

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