SUSAN GRAHAM TO RELEASE HER HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED SOLO RECORDING "UN FRISSON FRANÇAIS: A CENTURY OF FRENCH SONG" ON THE ONYX CLASSICS LABEL ON OCTOBER 14 "AMERICA'S FAVORITE MEZZO" HAS RECORDED AN ALL-FRENCH PROGRAM OF SONGS, RANGING FROM BIZET TO POULENC WITH PIANIST MALCOLM MARTINEAU "The program I have recorded with Malcolm Martineau is a really rich variety of French mélodies over a hundred-year span, from the mid-19th to mid-20th century. It's a rich tapestry - from Bizet to Poulenc - and it provides a delicious variety of romantic, saucy, lush, humorous, and offbeat songs," explains Susan Graham. "I wasn't familiar with many of them before I learned them for my recital tour in 2007, including Fauré's rarely heard "Vocalise-Etude", but I have truly fallen in love with each one. Some are heartbreaking, some are dramatic - almost operatic - in scope, like Bachelet's "Chère nuit". Some are little brush-strokes, and some create a whole landscape. There are animal songs, nature songs, love songs, songs about love manqué, and some subtle French humor thrown in for fun. They make up a varied and rich program. If they were food and you were in a restaurant, these songs would be the entire appetizer menu, and you'd have to order them all." For more information, please visit: http://onyxclassics.com