{"product_id":"tassis-christoyannis_melodies_2016_disco-virgin-music-group","title":"Mélodies","description":"Camille Saint-Saëns, a legendary figure of Romanticism, composed more than one hundred and fifty melodies, reflections of his love for poetry and the French language. Within this corpus of melodies, four cycles stand out and perfectly fit into the period of the golden age of French melody (1870-1920). The first cycle, the Mélodies persanes (1870), sets to music the most beautiful pages of the Parnassian poet Armand Renaud (Nuits persanes). La Cendre rouge (1914) bears witness to a close collaboration with Georges Docquois, the Cinq mélodies de Ronsard and Vieilles Chansons, composed in the very year of his death (1921), set to music poets of the Renaissance: Ronsard, Belleau, de la Fresnaye, d'Orléans. \"May music and poetry one day understand what interest they have in supporting each other! May poets learn music and musicians study poetry! They have everything to gain. Musicians must absorb this truth that a beautiful verse cannot simply be a pretext for music; it is a diamond that the musician must set to the best of his ability, to present it in all its glory. As for poets, they will one day realize that music makes possible all sorts of combinations that are forbidden to them without it.\" Camille Saint-Saëns","brand":"Tassis Christoyannis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57712792273240,"sku":null,"price":23480817.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/tassis-christoyannis_melodies_2016_disco-virgin-music-group","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}