Ge rard Souzay; Beau soir; Claude Debussy
This channel is the reestablishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. Gérard Souzaybaritone Dalton Baldwinpiano 197779 Gérard Souzay (8 December 1918 17 August 2004) was a French baritone, regarded as one of the very finest interpreters of mélodie (French art song) in the generation after Charles Panzéra and Pierre Bernac. He was born Gérard Marcel Tisserand, but later adopted the stage name of Souzay from a village on the river Loire, now part of the commune SouzayChampigny. He came from a musical family in Angers, France. His parents had met at one of the first performances of Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902; his mother and two brothers were singers, and his sister, 15 years older, was the soprano Geneviève Touraine, who gave the first performance of Poulenc s Fiançailles pour rire in 1942. After his schooling at the Collège Rabelais in Chinon, he went to the So
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