C'est Ca La Vie C'est Ca l'Amo

"Wayward, but all the more beloved daughters of the Opéra Comique" has been called them, the French operettas of Offenbach-André Messager's successor (1853-1929) and Reynaldo Hahn (1847-1947), in whose musical footsteps turn the songwriter Maurice Yvain ( . 1891-1965) and Moises Simons Zarzuelakomponist (1888-1945) have taken a special case is Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), one does not just bring at first sight with operetta in connection - even though he along with Jacques Ibert two has composed more - but with the avant-garde composer group "Les Six".
The lion's share of the program belongs Messagers fragrant light works L'amour masqué, Fortunio, Coups de roulis, Passionnément, Les P'tites Michu, La Petite Fonctionnaire, Les Dragons de l'Impératrice and tap charming little luxuries Ô mon bel inconnu, Brummel, Mozart and Ciboulette. But even more amazing than the musical freshness of this country virtually unknown operettas is the supreme interpreter: The Briton Susan Graham not only has a perfect idiomatic articulated French, but unfolds beyond a chameleon like ability to glittering, colorful dazzling costume of the respective operetta figure to slip. In perfect musical mimicry she knows how, in these love songs - to those are almost exclusively - charming flirting, sensual to coo, seductive to flatter her soft timbre mezzo high to elicit nostalgic dreamy sounds.
As a sensitive accompanist on the podium shows the conductor Yves Abel, the spread of the singer an attractive shimmering, but not crowding to the front wall of sound.