Bonneau/Joy play Fauré Dolly, Op. 56 - Part 1/6

Dolly, Op. 56 for piano four-hands

I. Berceuse
II. Mi-a-ou
III. Le Jardin de Dolly
IV. Kitty-Valse
V. Tendresse
VI. Le Pas Espagnol

Composer: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Performers: Jacqueline Bonneau (1917-2007) (piano) & Genevieve Joy (1919- ) (piano)

Recorded: 1955

Fauré wrote the pieces in honor of Hélène, nicknamed Dolly, who was the daughter of his mistress at the time, the singer Emma Bardac. The Berceuse was composed for Hélène's first birthday, and the remaining pieces also appeared in time for the child's subsequent birthdays and other family occasions. Their titles agreed with the "intimate" character of the work; the Kitty of the fourth piece was a corruption of Ketty, the name of Bardac's dog, while Mi-a-ou came from Monsieur Aoul, which was what Hélène called her brother Raoul.
The premiere was given by Alfred Cortot and Édouard Risler in 1898. Henri Rabaud also orchestrated the work in a symphonic version which received its first public performance in 1906.
The best known movement is the berceuse, which was the theme music for the long-running BBC Home Service programme Listen with Mother; there are numerous arrangements of the berceuse for other instruments and ensembles; an example is the arrangement for piano and glockenspiel played by Evelyn Glennie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(Faur%C3%A9)

Jacqueline Bonneau (born Jacqueline Robin) was a French pianist . At 10 years of age, she entered the Conservatoire of Paris. Familiar of Poulenc, Milhaud, Jolivet, Dutilleux, Ohana, Ballif, Louvier and of so much of other type-setters of which she had interpreted or created works, Jacqueline Robin was an accomplished musician and a pianist of an extraordinary subtlety. She was, initially under the name of Jacqueline Bonneau, the required partner of the largest singers of her time Schwarzkopf, Souzay, Haeflinger, Stich-Randal, intense collaborations whose disc retained moving testimonys. More than eighty ten recordings, making the good share with the Chamber music, in particular with Genevieve Joy in a duet of pianos without equivalent today, or with the violonist Michele Auclair, perhaps a little eclipsed the soloist of exception which it could be in Mozart, Schubert, Schumann or French and contemporary music. In the last years of her life, Jacqueline Robin exempted each summer her teaching with many young people soloists at the time of master-classes with Sophia-Antipolis.

Genevieve Joy (born in 1919 in the Somme), is a French pianist. She is the wife of the type-setter Henri Dutilleux since 1986.
http://www.speedylook.com/Jacqueline_Bonneau.html

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[purpleoscar]

Can this be bought on CD or is it just available in mp3? I can't find it other than as a Naxos mp3.

[imusiciki]

Naxos mp3

[march181959]

Everything is right on with this version. Good job.  Very nice - thank you.

[shinyalbert]

I love this so much that I don't even know why it should be this much...

[73soulboy]

Two people wearn't listening with mother! Pax to all from 73soulboy.Xxx.

[Joannax40]

beautiful music! the first time i heard this was from bicentennial man and ive loved it every since!

[WASUPGUEY]

wow!!  love it :)

[mush1955]

BBC " Listen with mother " just before our afternoon nap in nursery school "...are you sitting compfortably ?...then i'll beguin ! "

[xIxlovexhimx4xeverx]

aww, this is lovely music!!!!

[bienecouteur]

And the first time saw Bonneau was in the accompaniment of the Faure Melodies of Souzay - the great french bariton singer.

[bienecouteur]

My little flute student (11 years old)just won a litte first price(local competition )last weekend by playing this piece in D major,it so' great to hear the original version with great pianists !

[brucyboy1895]

Love this music, It reminds me of junior school waiting for schools radio to begin!

[0MakoBlaster0]

wii ftw