Laetitia Grimaldi, Ammiel Bushakevitz, Talia Erdal - Ombres: Women Composers of La Belle Époque (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Invocation, Op. Posth. 5
02. Élève-toi mon âme, Op. 22
03. 3 Mélodies, Op. Posth. 91: No. 3, Guidé par de beaux yeux candides
04. Un soir, Op. Posth. 77
05. Ave Maria, Op. Posth. 176
06. Villanelle for Voice & Piano
07. L'anneau d'argent
08. Mélodies, Recueil 1: No. 12, Nice-la-belle
09. Chant d'amour
10. Jardin du roi
11. Ne me regarde pas
12. Songe
13. 12 Mélodies sur des Poésies Russes (Excerpts): No. 3, Les ombres de minuit, VWV 1039
14. 12 Mélodies sur des Poésies Russes (Excerpts): No. 7, Les deux roses, VWV 1055
15. 6 Mélodies et une Havanaise variée à 2 voix: No. 4, Haï luli, VWV 1106
16. 12 Poems by Pushkin, Fet & Turgenev: No. 12, Les étoiles, VWV 1059
17. La partenza: No. 1, Le rêve de la vallée
18. Printemps
19. Chanson d'exil
20. 20 Mélodies (Excerpts): No. 5, C'est un oiseau du bois sauvage
21. 20 Mélodies (Excerpts): No. 14, Les lavandières
22. À Trianon



Devised by Laetitia Grimaldi and Ammiel Bushakevitz, "Ombres" brings together songs by nine women composers whose lives span the years 1821-1964. Many of the songs were written during the so-called "Belle Époque", at a time when women might be accepted as performers - especially in domestic settings - but struggled to be recognised as composers. And even in the cases when their music was heard - for instance in the fashionable salons of Paris - or published, it soon fell into oblivion. Several of the songs included here were discovered by Grimaldi and Bushakevitz in libraries and archives, having gone out of print long ago.

With "Ombres", the performers liberate the nine composers from their shadowy existence, and demonstrate the wide range of their music, from Cécile Chaminade’s bustling Villanelle to Pauline Viardot’s nocturnal Les étoiles or the ghostly Les lavandières by Augusta Holmès, about the Midnight Washerwomen from Celtic mythology.

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