Alexander Liebermann - L' Espoir du cerisier (HD & Subtitles)

Five japanese poems (Haikus) set to music for soprano and piano.

Singer: Sara Gouzy
Pianist: Lahav Shani
Composer: Alexander Liebermann

Poems, in french:

I.
Souffrant -
autour du lit flotte
le bleu de la mer en hiver

Nakatsuka Ippekiro

II.
La mort bientôt -
sur les herbes folles
tombe la pluie

Taneda Santôka

III.
Déjà je l'imagine
tombant sur mon cadavre -
la neige.

Takahama Kyoshi

IV.
Sous les fleurs de cerisier
grouille et fourmille
l'humanité

Kobayashi Issa

V.
Couvert de papillons
l'arbre mort
est en fleurs!

Kobayashi Issa

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[SaraCatarineSoprano]

Very interesting composition. I've sang many contemporary works. One thing singers complain is the melody writing. But here, the phrasing is elegant, the piano part suits de vocal part. Not completely detached from tonality, harmonically, it drives well between something ambiguous and tangible at the same time. Lyric and easy to perceive. Good work and very good performance for both pianist and singer.

[AlexLieb2802]

@SaraCatarineSoprano Thank you very much!

[Albertmaximus1]

Very elegant composition and performance! My congratulations!

Special thanks to singer!

[Pianopod]

What a beautiful voice! I bet you sing Puccini beautifully

[GeminiNES]

Beautiful

[TelevatorMuzak]

Amazing! Gave me goosebumps.

[LeslieMarieBernabe]

I'm wowed at such tone... Such clarity.. amazing... Esp the pianist, giving such an additional entertaining presence...

[wolf1750]

On my super-de-lux computer (the latest Mac) I coukd hear only the first two tones. Then it got stuck (twice already!). Wolf

[jazznbear]

Beautiful,spatial, haunting, dream state, passionate...........kudos!

[wolf1750]

Suuuuuuuubarashi ! wolf in Kyoto/Japan

[ktdanceinmusic]

Wah...amazing....From the Composer to the pianist to the Singer...all are Genius !! Congrats...

[oyvindm1954]

Very talented singer. I seldom hear such an excellent and beautiful and controlled voice. Very exciting and border-breaking music from a obviuosly very fine artist and composer. The piano part is eleganltly and beautifullt played by the pianist. There is hope for Europes musical future with such skilled artists. The only bad thing I could mention is that the microhpone is too close to the piano and therefore makes the recording very hard. But overall an excellent production of fantastic music!

[senkamarinovic]

I have listened to this for first time today, powerful, it draw my attention to keep listening and I replayed it immy after but clicked twice in error so I listened two recordings at the same time with a moment of delay between them, and really it knocekd me down listening that way, marvellous sound like a chours or an echo so suitable for the image of this amazing pay.