BBC Proms 2020 Season - Susan Graham sings French song [2009] (320kbps .mp3)


In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

In today's chamber music concert given in Cadogan Hall in 2009, American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham performs repertoire close to her heart with pianist Malcolm Martineau: a sampler of 19th- and 20th-century French song.


01. Susan Graham sings French song Pt1
a.  Bizet: Chanson d'avril
b. Franck: Nocturne
c. Chabrier: Les cigales
d. Bachelet: Chere nuit
e. Duparc: Au pays ou se fait la guerre
01a. Introduction to the Susan Graham prom
01b. Interview with Susan Graham and others
02. Susan Graham sings French song Pt2
a. Ravel: La paon
b. Caplet: Le corbeau et le renard
c. Roussel: Reponse d'une epouse sage
d. Debussy: Colloque sentimental
e. Honegger: Three Songs from 'The Little Mermaid'
f. Rosenthal: La souris d'Angleterre
03. Poulenc - La Dame de Monte Carlo
03a. Introduction to Poulenc’s La Dame de Monte Carlo
Introduced by Louise Fryer.

(From the BBC Proms, 27 July 2009)