Konstantin Wolff - Victor Hugo en Musique (2008/2016)

Composers who dared to set Victor Hugo's poetry to music knew the challenge they were facing. But they knew how to select precisely those texts from this monument of literature that would benefit most from their music and in this way created a multi:layered portrait of Hugo: every facet of the poet, who saw the world in verse of biting irony as well as in romantic lyric poetry portrayed, comes into its own - from the ethereal or sensual lover to the committed political personality. The young Konstantin Wolff had an audible pleasure in facing these nuanced treasures.