Keeping with tradition, I'll start with the French triumphalist gloire. Here is the Hector Berlioz setting of La Marseillaise featuring Placido Domingo:
Here's another kind of French gloire. Edith Piaf sings another great French anthem:
For us Yanks, it just wouldn't be Bastille Day without this old chestnut:
Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite!
Mes Amis, Vive La France!
Cassoulet for everybody!
Here's a tribute to La Belle France from a very great American.
UPDATE:
Ma cher Mimi is back from Anaheim.
Oh, la, la! Piaf, la belle!
ReplyDeleteMerci mille et dix mille fois....
Mon cher Counterlight, I'm here!
ReplyDeleteBonne fête de Bastille! Thanks again for ma chère Edith. No one sings La Vie en Rose like her. No one.
Mimi,
ReplyDeleteIt was my pleasure.
De temps en temps il nous faut revenir aux jours lointains. Merci pour les chansons de Piaf!
ReplyDeleteThis has given me a great deal of pleasure.