Ru con - Berceuse
1969 · Le Chant du Monde LDX 74401 · Paris, France
- Artist
- Ái Liên
- Title
- Ru con - Berceuse
- Release
- Vietnam
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Le Chant du Monde # LDX 74401
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Paris, France
- Songwriter
- Traditional
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Vietnamese Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: Alone, I gaze at the moon reflected in the pond... Profound is my sadness—do not weep... Sleep now, go to sleep, my child. __________ French: Seule, je contemple la lune qui se mire dans l'étang... profonde est ma tristesse, ne pleure pas... dodo, fais dodo, mon enfant.
Notes
Le Chant du Monde LDX 74401 (sleeve "G.U. LDX 74401"), label matrices XSB 74401 A / XSB 74401 B, "Made in France – Microsillon incassable – Longue durée 33 T. 1/3", rights "D.R."; Ensemble National de la République Démocratique du Vietnam, direction Cu Huy Can, choreographer and musical director Minh Hien. The front cover photograph ("Au recto: Photo Marc Riboud – Agence Magnum") shows farmers ploughing with oxen and carrying shoulder-pole baskets beside a river; sleeve printed by Imp. Chaufour, Paris. The French liner notes trace the ensemble from 16 musicians and dancers who joined the Liberation Army in 1952, through its installation in Hanoi in 1954 (now 80 artists) and the American bombing from 4 August 1964, during which the artists toured North Vietnam by lorry, bicycle and on foot, performed in bomb craters under the motto "Nos chants sonneront plus fort que les explosions des…
About the artist
Vietnamese singer and actress, born Thái Thị Ái Liên on 25 November 1920 in Hải Phòng, died 27 January 1991; a pioneer of modern Vietnamese song in the 1930s–40s and later a leading performer of revolutionary cải lương theatre in the North. [Source: Wikipedia (Vietnamese)]
Themes
From the release Vietnam