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Alexandre Rydin is a Finnish-Swedish-Swiss composer. His chosen poems (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Leconte de Lisle, Charles Cros), highlight discreet dissonances of sophisticated harmonies. Alexandre Rydin never uses harmony in excess and is very good at glorifying poems. The owl counting rhyme (no. 3) is an incredible strict canon of three parts. This piece is a perfect way of discovering these beautiful harmonies. 20th century composers (like Francis Poulenc, Jean Francaix, and Jean Absil for example) often wrote about bestiaries. In Alexandre Rydin’s pieces, bestiary is at times serious at time ironic but is always written with beautiful melodic sweep and sophisticated harmony.
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| | |  The same composer also proposes a three mixed voices setting (réf. 1033).
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“Le Café du Port” was written by Romain Didier, one of the most prolific writer of French chanson, and the singer-songwriter Allain Leprest. They have written together since 1985. They tell you the story of a bar, a town, and a “M’sieur Icare” who look for love and find it with his neighbor thanks to Internet.
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“Le Café du Port” was written by Romain Didier, one of the most prolific writer of French chanson, and the singer-songwriter Allain Leprest. They have written together since 1985. They tell you the story of a bar, a town, and a “M’sieur Icare” who look for love and find it with his neighbor thanks to Internet.
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