Duetto Buffo Di Due Gatti
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:47 pm
>>I have this on CD but I can't find if because I have so many CD's with music.
>>G. Rossini, who we know for great opera, wrote this wonderfully silly duet.
>>You can hear the audience adding to the music every once in a while
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Rossinis meow-song, a great performance by a French boys choir (video)
2/17/2013 3:54pm by John Aravosis
http://americablog.com/2013/02/french-b ... -song.html
Or here on YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 7aLbfgpBPM
...this video ... crossed my path again today.
I decided to do some googling I wanted to know who these boys are. The boys are with Les Petits Chanteurs a la Croix de Bois (PCCB) in Paris, apparently a quite well-known boys choir in France.
I also found out the name of the boys doing the singing. Theyre Hyacinthe de Moulins (the blonde boy) and Régis Mengus (the dark-haired boy). Yep, the first boy is actually named Hyachinthe ah the French. Régis is apparently now an opera singer in France. And Hyacinthe, if Im not incorrect, is getting married this May this has got to be him, the face is the same.
Below is my favorite performance of the boys choir, and favorite version of the meow-song, as I call it the song is officially called Rossinis Duetto buffo di due gatti (Funny (I prefer goofey) duet of the two cats). Heres Wikipedia on the background of the song:
The Duetto buffo di due gatti (humorous duet for two cats) is a popular performance piece for two sopranos which is often performed as a concertencore. The lyrics consist entirely of the repeated word miau (meow).
While the piece is typically attributed to Gioachino Rossini, it was not actually written by him, but is instead a compilation written in 1825 that draws principally on his 1816 opera, Otello. The compiler was likely the English composer Robert Lucas de Pearsall, who for this purpose used the pseudonym G. Berthold.
And here are Hyacinthe and Régis singing it, wonderfully.
>>G. Rossini, who we know for great opera, wrote this wonderfully silly duet.
>>You can hear the audience adding to the music every once in a while
>>
>>
Rossinis meow-song, a great performance by a French boys choir (video)
2/17/2013 3:54pm by John Aravosis
http://americablog.com/2013/02/french-b ... -song.html
Or here on YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 7aLbfgpBPM
...this video ... crossed my path again today.
I decided to do some googling I wanted to know who these boys are. The boys are with Les Petits Chanteurs a la Croix de Bois (PCCB) in Paris, apparently a quite well-known boys choir in France.
I also found out the name of the boys doing the singing. Theyre Hyacinthe de Moulins (the blonde boy) and Régis Mengus (the dark-haired boy). Yep, the first boy is actually named Hyachinthe ah the French. Régis is apparently now an opera singer in France. And Hyacinthe, if Im not incorrect, is getting married this May this has got to be him, the face is the same.
Below is my favorite performance of the boys choir, and favorite version of the meow-song, as I call it the song is officially called Rossinis Duetto buffo di due gatti (Funny (I prefer goofey) duet of the two cats). Heres Wikipedia on the background of the song:
The Duetto buffo di due gatti (humorous duet for two cats) is a popular performance piece for two sopranos which is often performed as a concertencore. The lyrics consist entirely of the repeated word miau (meow).
While the piece is typically attributed to Gioachino Rossini, it was not actually written by him, but is instead a compilation written in 1825 that draws principally on his 1816 opera, Otello. The compiler was likely the English composer Robert Lucas de Pearsall, who for this purpose used the pseudonym G. Berthold.
And here are Hyacinthe and Régis singing it, wonderfully.