1930 CREATOR Rec' SACHA GUITRY YVONNE PRINTEMPS Album C-8 SELECTIONS REPERTOIRE

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SELECTIONS FROM THE REPERTOIRE OF YVONNE PRINTEMPS AND SACHA GUITRY

Husband and Wife in real life and on the stage in this charming collection of their hits

"Selections from the Repertoire of Yvonne Printemps and Sacha Guitry" Rec 1930. (78/Vic 12" album C-8)

Mozart. Le petit menuet : acte 1 ; Air de la lettre : acte 2 / Sacha Guitry ; Reynaldo Hahn --
L'amour masque?. Duo du 2e?me acte ; J'ai deux amants / Sacha Guitray ; A. Messager --
Mozart. Air des adieux : acte 3 / Sacha Guitry ; Reynaldo Hahn --
Deburau. Sce?ne de l'interview / Sacha Guitry ; A. Messager --
Mariette. Sce?ne finale du 2e?me acte ; Depuis trois ans passe?s : acte 3 / Sacha Guitry ; Oscar Straus --
Re?flexions / Sacha Guitry.

2x10" 3x 12" 78 rpm original scroll pressing with original  orthophonic style album

Condition: EXCELLENT some light rubs, 1/2 is VG++ unworn but rubbed, small dull spots on 1, plays quiet w light crackly hiss, some ticks on 1/2, album great, tiny roughing top and bottom of spine

Yvonne Printemps (French: [p???t??]; 25 July 1894 – 19 January 1977) was a French singer and actress who achieved stardom on stage and screen in France and internationally.

Printemps went on the stage in Paris at the age of 12, and at 21 she was singled out by the actor, director and playwright Sacha Guitry as a leading lady. In 1919 they were married, and worked closely together until 1932, when they divorced. Printemps never remarried, but had a personal and professional partnership with the actor Pierre Fresnay which lasted until his death in 1975.

As a performer, Printemps was famed for the quality of her singing voice and for her personal charm. Among those who composed for her were André Messager, Reynaldo Hahn, Noël Coward and Francis Poulenc. Her voice could have led her to an operatic career, but guided by Guitry she concentrated on operette and other types of musical show, along with non-musical plays and films. In addition to her many successes in Paris she appeared to great acclaim in the West End of London, and on Broadway in New York.

With Sacha Guitry[edit]

Georges Feydeau, Sarah Bernhardt (witnesses), with the groom and bride (r) at the wedding of Sacha Guitry and Printemps, 1919
In November 1915 Guitry cast Printemps in his new revue, which he directed but did not appear in. A year later they acted together in his new comedy, Jean de la Fontaine.[6] It was rumoured that Printemps was having an affair with Guitry's father, the eminent actor Lucien Guitry;[7] whatever the truth of that rumour, it is undisputed that she became romantically involved with Sacha. Charlotte Guitry, discovering the liaison, left her husband;[8] they divorced in 1918 and in April 1919 he married Printemps.[9]

Guitry wrote many plays for her, some musical and others straight comedies. Both he and his father appeared with her in several of them, including Mon Père avait raison and Comment on ecrit l'histoire. They played together not only in Paris, but in the West End of London.[10] All three appeared at the Aldwych Theatre in a four-week season in 1920.[11] Sir John Gielgud wrote that Printemps and her husband "returned … many times to delight London in various pieces artfully contrived by him to show them both off to the best possible advantage."[7] He described her thus:

With a trim, elegant figure, appealing spaniel eyes, and a broad turned-up nose not unlike that of our own Gertrude Lawrence ... her acting had something of the same inimitable brand of impish sentimental comedy. But unlike Gertie Lawrence, whose singing voice, fascinating though it was, could be distinctly unreliable and wobbly, Printemps' tones were exquisitely delicate and true. She was sometimes tempted, perhaps, to prolong her top notes unduly in order to show off her brilliant breath control, and to yield rather too easily to demands for encores.[7]

Guitry and Printemps in Mozart (1925)
In 1925 Guitry had the idea of writing a musical comedy about the life of the youthful Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart while in Paris in the 1770s. To compose the score he approached André Messager, with whom he had successfully collaborated in 1923 on a show for Printemps, L'amour masqué.[12] Messager was unavailable and recommended the young composer Reynaldo Hahn, who accepted the commission. The resulting production, Mozart, took some liberties with historical accuracy, but it proved highly popular.[13] Printemps, in a breeches role, played and sang the young Mozart, with Guitry as the composer's patron, Baron Grimm. Gielgud recalled, "she seemed ravishingly youthful and touching in her powdered wig, black knee breeches and buckled shoes, while Sacha hovered over her with avuncular authority, not attempting to try to sing himself, but contributing a kind of flowing, rhythmic accompaniment with his speeches, delivered in a deep caressing voice."[7] After playing successfully at the Théâtre Edouard VII,[14] the company presented the piece for a three-week season in London in June and July 1926.[15] The critic James Agate wrote, "It is not exaggerating to say that on Monday evening people were observed to cry, and by that I mean shed tears, when Music's heavenly child appeared at the top of the stairs. At that moment of her entrance this exquisite artist made conquest of the house, and subsequently held it in thrall until the final curtain."[16] After the London production, Guitry took the piece to Broadway, Boston and Montreal in late 1926 and early 1927.[5]

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