Melodies about poems by Victor Hugo
This set of unpublished pieces could pass for a family album (words of an illustrious poet in keeping with the notes of his less considered daughter), but it soon resembles the hollow portrait of a musician who, the whims of a tormented life and a Suffocated posterity has been confined to the virtual existence of the bottom of the drawer. Without a doubt, Adèle Hugo (1830-1915) composed only for herself, but her works, discovered in 2004 in Guernsey, are not amateur works. We perceive in the instrumental pages a desire for evasion that, in the Melodies about poems by Victor HugoIt works as an authentic proclamation of identity. The latter come to us in orchestral arrangements made by Richard Dubugnon with as much coloristic sobriety as dramatic effectiveness. Defended with conviction by Jean-François Verdier’s Victor Hugo Orchestra, the program judiciously renews the solo voices. However, it is the mezzo-sopranos who seem to best serve the lyricism of Adèle Hugo, expansive with Karine Deshayes (June nights) and penetrating Isabelle Druet (Pray for the dead). Pierre Gervasoni
Alpha Classics/Outside Music.
Destination
Works by Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Mademoiselle Laurent, Mademoiselle Duval, Marie-Christine Fumeron, Anne-Madeleine Guesdon de Presles, Elisabeth-Louise Papavoine, Madame Talon, Anne (or Marguerite) Bocquet, Françoise-Charlotte de Menetou, Madame de The Elevated driveway. With Louise Ayrton (violin), Marta Paramo and Clément Batrel-Genin (violas), Hanna Salzenstein (cello), Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba), Justin Taylor (harpsichord and organ).
In her first album as a soloist, the young French violinist, founding member of the baroque music ensemble Le Consort, addresses the repertoire of composers from the 17th century.my and XVIIImy ages. Apart from the relatively famous Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, whose magnificent Sonata in D minor has already been recorded, None of them have ever been recorded on disc. Some, married to composers, signed with their married name. Delicacy of line, trembling sensitivity, liveliness of the play of shadows and lights, the musician moves with ease from the very Vivaldian Stormby Elisabeth-Louise Papavoine, with the striking lyricism of a Ariette by Anne-Madeleine Guesdon de Presles, without forgetting the dancing, as in the elegant Gavotte written by Françoise-Charlotte de Menetou. Accompanied, in particular, by Lucile Boulanger’s viola da gamba and Justin Taylor’s harpsichord, Sophie de Bardonnèche’s Orphic violin offers these ten women a resurrection befitting their talent. Marie-Aude Roux
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