Paul Lorrain

The last album in our Gabriel Pierné retrospective focuses on choral music. Discover the very rare Ronde de fées (Fairy’s Round) for female choir and piano after a charming poem by Jean Lorrain, performed by the Ensemble vocal Jean-Paul Kreder in the premiere recording. It is coupled with other French choral pieces, both sacred and profane.

France Lorrain demeure à Mascouche et enseigne au primaire, en 2e année. Elle est aussi chargée de cours à l’UdM. On lui doit 16 romans jeunesse ainsi que des chroniques dans les magazines Châtelaine, Coup de Pouce et Sélection du Reader’s Digest. …

This catalogue tries to record and thus to preserve an aspect of life and culture in New York that is fast vanishing. Most great works of art are now in educational institutions, but those still in private collections, when assembled with love and understanding and arranged in harmonious surroundings, take on a living quality and an intimate appeal that they lose in a museum. …