Lo Fiolairé
Traditional Occitan song
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"Lo Fiolairé" (occitan la fialaire, the spinner) is a traditional Occitan song, from the region of Aurillac and Haute-Auvergne, composed by an anonymous author in the Occitan language.
Victoria de los Ángeles
Cathy Berberian
Kiri Te Kanawa
Luisa Castellani
Frederica von Stade
| Lo fiolairé | |
|---|---|
| Genre | folk |
| Text | anonymous |
| Language | Auvergnat |
| Performed | Madeleine Grey Victoria de los Ángeles Cathy Berberian Kiri Te Kanawa Luisa Castellani Frederica von Stade |
History and content
The piece was recovered by the composer Joseph Canteloube between 1923 and 1930 and inserted in the collection Chants d'Auvergne (Songs from Auvergne),[1] where he transcribed it with arrangement for soprano and orchestra. In 1964 Luciano Berio transcribed the piece in turn, with an arrangement for voice (mezzo-soprano), flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, viola and cello. The musical piece was included in the song cycle Folk Songs collection and was recorded by his Armenian wife, Cathy Berberian.[2][3]
It is a canso, a poetic composition, composed of twelve lines (four triplets, the rhymes are identical in all the stanzas; there is also the rima estamp, which is found in the same place from verse to verse (coblas unisonans).
The song tells the story of a shepherdess who remembers that when she was very young, while she was looking after the flock, she also had a stick to spin and had called a shepherd to help her, but he in return asked him for a kiss and she, who was not an ungrateful one, he gave her two.[4]
Other versions
- Arleen Auger
- Sara Macliver
- Netania Davrath
- Sarah Davis
- Albena Kechlibareva
- Orna Arania
- Dawn Upshaw
- Véronique Gens
Discography
- 1964, Luciano Berio, Folk Songs
- 2005, Osvaldo Golijov in the CD Ayre, with Dawn Upshaw & The Andalucian Dogs, Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg[5]