French art song — melodie — has an insidious emotional power infectious to the performer and irresistible to the listener. One such work, “Tristesse,” Gabriel Fauré’s 1838 setting of Théophile Gautier ...
LONDON (Reuters) - French soprano Natalie Dessay gave a recent recital in London that one critic called "sublime" and her latest CD of French art songs has been well received, but she says her fans ...