Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert - Compositrices: À l'aube du XXe siècle (2020) [Hi-Res 24bits - 96.0kHz]

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01. Sonate, Op. 64: I. Andantino con moto
02. Sonate Op. 64: II. Scherzo (Vivace)
03. Sonate Op. 64: III. Adagio
04. Sonate Op. 64: IV. Finale (Moderato)
05. Nocturne
06. D'un matin de printemps
07. Suite pour flûte et piano: I. Prélude
08. Suite pour flûte et piano: II. Scherzo
09. Suite pour flûte et piano: III. Menuet
10. Suite pour flûte et piano: IV. Romance
11. Suite pour flûte et piano: V. Final
12. Pièce, Op. 189
13. Scherzo, Op. Posthume 187 (Finale)
14. Sérénade aux étoiles, Op. 142
15. Trois petites pièces: Chanson
16. Trois petites pièces: Clair de Lune
17. Trois petites pièces: Gigue


Juliette Hurel and Hélène Couvert, who have long enjoyed a close rapport on the concert platform and on disc, here celebrate five French women composers at the turn of the twentieth century. Countess Clémence de Grandval was the composer of some sixty songs, of which Saint-Saëns said: ‘They would certainly be famous if their composer did not have what many people regard as the irremediable defect of being a woman.’

Augusta Holmès earned the admiration of Liszt, Wagner and Saint-Saëns. To mark the Universal Exhibition of 1889, she composed a monumental work for more than a thousand musicians. During her studies at the Conservatoire, Mélanie Bonis fell madly in love with a singer, but had to marry a rich industrialist. She later returned to composition and used the pseudonym Mel Bonis, leaving her gender in doubt. Cécile Chaminade displayed extraordinary gifts at a very early age. Bizet called her ‘My little Mozart’. Lili Boulanger received her first music lessons from her sister, the famous teacher Nadia. In 1913, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to receive the Prix de Rome. The word ‘compositrice’ was born!

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