Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
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Label: Bru Zane
Cat No: BZ2006
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 8
Release Date: 10th March 2023
Contents
Works
Album pour les Tout-Petits, op.103Au Crepuscule, op.111
Barcarolle in E flat, op.71
Cello Sonata
Desdemona, op.101
Elegie sur le mode antique
Immortelle Tendresse
Invocation, op.post.5
La Cathedrale blessee, op.107
La Chanson du rouet, op.24
Le Songe de Cleopatre, op.180 no.1
Melisande, op.34
Omphale
Ophelie, op.165
Phoebe, op.30
Pieces (6) a quatre mains (dont deux tres faciles)
Romance sans paroles, op.56
Salome, op.100
Songe
Suite en forme de valses
Un Soir
Viens
Viola
Viviane
Cortege
D'un matin de printemps
Nocturne
La Sirene
Pieces (3) for cello and piano
Melodies (3)
» no.1 Le Cormoran
» no.2 Au bord du petit lac
Callirhoe, op.37Concertino for flute and orchestra, op.107
Pieces romantiques (6), op.55
Reve d'un soir
Veux-tu?
Petits Poemes au bord de l'eau
J'ai dans mon coeur
L'Enfant
À une femme
Du coeur aux levres
L'Amour s'eveille: Valse
L'Amour s'eveille
Piano Trio no.2 in D minor, op.34
Symphony no.3 in G minor, op.36
Andante et Intermezzo
Le Bohemien
Sacrifice
A Nere
Andromede
Contes divins
Les Sept Ivresses
» no.1 L'Amour
» no.2 Le Vin
Ludus pro patria » La nuit et l'amour
La Chanson du rouetLes Etoiles mortelles
La Mer
Les Orientales
Ossiane
Voix du printemps
Melodies (6)
» no.5 Clair de lune
» no.6 Heure exquise
Piano Sonatas (3), op.5 » no.2 in F minor
Etudes melodiques (8)Cello Sonata
Les Meditations
Piano Sonata, op.6
Symphony in C sharp minor
Bilitis: Poeme en 12 chants
Grande Fantaisie-Quintette
Sonnet
Aimez-moi ma mignonne
Hai luli
Havanaise
Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent
L'Absence-Cana Espanola
Les filles de Cadix
Melodies (12) sur des poesies russes
» no.3 Les Ombres de minuit
» no.4 Berceuse cosaque
» no.5 Evocation, VWV1041
» no.9 Georgienne
» no.12 L'Orage
SolitudeSonatine for violin and piano
Artists
Anais Constans (soprano)Aude Extremo (mezzo-soprano)
Yann Beuron (tenor)
Cyrille Dubois (tenor)
Francois Rougier (tenor)
Alessandra Ammara (piano)
Celia Oneto Bensaid (piano)
Mihaly Berecz (piano)
Frank Braley (piano)
Francois Dumont (piano)
Theo Fouchenneret (piano)
Etienne Manchon (piano)
Ismael Margain (piano)
Nathalia Milstein (piano)
Roberto Prosseda (piano)
Tristan Raes (piano)
Marie Vermeulin (piano)
David Zobel (piano)
Claire Le Boulanger (flute)
Anna Agafia (violin)
Alexandre Pascal (violin)
Victor Julien-Laferriere (cello)
Heloise Luzzati (cello)
Quatuor Hanson
Les Siecles
Orchestre National de France
Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse
Conductors
Leo HussainDavid Reiland
Francois-Xavier Roth
Debora Waldman
Works
Album pour les Tout-Petits, op.103Au Crepuscule, op.111
Barcarolle in E flat, op.71
Cello Sonata
Desdemona, op.101
Elegie sur le mode antique
Immortelle Tendresse
Invocation, op.post.5
La Cathedrale blessee, op.107
La Chanson du rouet, op.24
Le Songe de Cleopatre, op.180 no.1
Melisande, op.34
Omphale
Ophelie, op.165
Phoebe, op.30
Pieces (6) a quatre mains (dont deux tres faciles)
Romance sans paroles, op.56
Salome, op.100
Songe
Suite en forme de valses
Un Soir
Viens
Viola
Viviane
Cortege
D'un matin de printemps
Nocturne
La Sirene
Pieces (3) for cello and piano
Melodies (3)
» no.1 Le Cormoran
» no.2 Au bord du petit lac
Callirhoe, op.37Concertino for flute and orchestra, op.107
Pieces romantiques (6), op.55
Reve d'un soir
Veux-tu?
Petits Poemes au bord de l'eau
J'ai dans mon coeur
L'Enfant
À une femme
Du coeur aux levres
L'Amour s'eveille: Valse
L'Amour s'eveille
Piano Trio no.2 in D minor, op.34
Symphony no.3 in G minor, op.36
Andante et Intermezzo
Le Bohemien
Sacrifice
A Nere
Andromede
Contes divins
Les Sept Ivresses
» no.1 L'Amour
» no.2 Le Vin
Ludus pro patria » La nuit et l'amour
La Chanson du rouetLes Etoiles mortelles
La Mer
Les Orientales
Ossiane
Voix du printemps
Melodies (6)
» no.5 Clair de lune
» no.6 Heure exquise
Piano Sonatas (3), op.5 » no.2 in F minor
Etudes melodiques (8)Cello Sonata
Les Meditations
Piano Sonata, op.6
Symphony in C sharp minor
Bilitis: Poeme en 12 chants
Grande Fantaisie-Quintette
Sonnet
Aimez-moi ma mignonne
Hai luli
Havanaise
Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent
L'Absence-Cana Espanola
Les filles de Cadix
Melodies (12) sur des poesies russes
» no.3 Les Ombres de minuit
» no.4 Berceuse cosaque
» no.5 Evocation, VWV1041
» no.9 Georgienne
» no.12 L'Orage
SolitudeSonatine for violin and piano
Artists
Anais Constans (soprano)Aude Extremo (mezzo-soprano)
Yann Beuron (tenor)
Cyrille Dubois (tenor)
Francois Rougier (tenor)
Alessandra Ammara (piano)
Celia Oneto Bensaid (piano)
Mihaly Berecz (piano)
Frank Braley (piano)
Francois Dumont (piano)
Theo Fouchenneret (piano)
Etienne Manchon (piano)
Ismael Margain (piano)
Nathalia Milstein (piano)
Roberto Prosseda (piano)
Tristan Raes (piano)
Marie Vermeulin (piano)
David Zobel (piano)
Claire Le Boulanger (flute)
Anna Agafia (violin)
Alexandre Pascal (violin)
Victor Julien-Laferriere (cello)
Heloise Luzzati (cello)
Quatuor Hanson
Les Siecles
Orchestre National de France
Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse
Conductors
Leo HussainDavid Reiland
Francois-Xavier Roth
Debora Waldman
About
Women composers had great difficulty in making their voices heard and gaining recognition during their lifetimes. Even today, they are all too rarely heard in the concert hall or the opera house. That situation obviously cries out for a change in attitude, but then come the questions: all right, let’s programme women composers, but which ones, and which of their works? In this eight-CD set featuring several hundred performers, the Palazzetto Bru Zane offers its initial answer as far as nineteenth-century France is concerned. The selections range over chamber music, orchestral works, piano pieces and songs. They highlight twenty-one female creators, from already identified personalities like Hélène de Montgeroult, Louise Farrenc, Pauline Viardot, Marie Jaëll and Mel Bonis to such completely unknown figures as Charlotte Sohy, Madeleine Jaeger, Marthe Grumbach, Jeanne Danglas, Hedwige Chrétien and Madeleine Lemariey. From now on, there will be no excuse for ignoring Romantic women composers.
Reviews
The discoveries come tumbling forth, as if there is no limit to the neglected women composers who could be included in this ambitious project. Over the past decade, Bru Zane has been championing a rediscovery of forgotten French romantic music, especially operas, but here it has excelled itself. ... There are some real discoveries. Among the works getting their first recordings are Charlotte Sohy’s passionately heated Symphony in C sharp minor, the seductive salon music of Jeanne Danglas’s L’Amour s’éveille and La Sirène, a dramatic scene for three singers and orchestra by famed teacher Nadia Boulanger, showing she could compose with the best of them. ... Of the 21 composers here, most are little known. All deserve to be known better.Financial Times 24 March 2023
I’ve really enjoyed wading through often fascinating repertoire from 19th and early 20th composers mostly little known (Mel Bonis? Charlotte Sohy?), delivered with gusto by a range of French singers, pianists, string players, and four orchestras. ... each disc includes at least one bigger splash, from Nadia Boulanger’s rather frightening cantata “La Sirène” to Cécile Chaminade’s hugely appealing ballet suite “Callirhoé”.The Times 17 March 2023
Twenty-one composers, with dates of birth ranging from 1764 to 1893, are represented in this always fascinating and sometimes revelatory collection of more than 160 pieces, from which only a handful of the names will be familiar to even assiduous concert goers and record collectors on this side of the Channel. ... This kind of meticulously assembled survey, expertly performed and beautifully presented with scrupulous documentation (though without texts and translations for the many songs) does far more for the cause of these unjustly overlooked composers than any number of books making grand claims about their importance; those championing their British equivalents would do well to follow its example. Andrew ClementsThe Guardian 24 March 2023
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