Angele Dubeau, La Pieta - Passion (2005) Hi-Res

What sweeps us off our feet, casts a spell upon us, and charms us? What befuddles, disconcerts, and bewitches us? What is the cause of so much anguish, but also of even more bliss, joy, and pleasure? What else but passion, an “intense, driving, or overmastering feeling” as states the dictionary, although words often only limply convey its full meaning. Music, on the other hand, seems to entertain intimate ties with passion. That was all it took for Angèle Dubeau, a passionate artist if ever there was one, to decide to make these strong emotions the theme of a record, this record, where she proposes nothing less than a voyage to the heart of these extreme emotions as were experienced by eight composers as diverse as passion itself.