Sandrine Piau - Hugo: Melodies sur des poemes de Victor Hugo - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This album pays homage to the composer Adele Hugo (1830-1915), the fifth child of the great poet Victor Hugo. Suffering from lifelong psychological instability, she spent half of her tragic life in mental institutions, from the age of 42 until her death aged 85. Hers was an exalted and sensitive temperament; she became passionately fond of music from an early age, studying the piano and then composition. Her musical manuscripts were recently rediscovered, and the Director of the Victor Hugo Museums in Paris and Guernsey entrusted them to composer Richard Dubugnon, so as to research and reconstruct the jigsaw of these often quite fragmentary scores, which had been lying forgotten for more than a century. What has emerged is a set of fourteen of her songs on poems by Victor Hugo and verses taken from his great novel Les Miserables, as well as five songs without words. Appropriately, the Orchestre Victor Hugo and it's Music Director Jean-Francois Verdier have been involved in the project, and they invited Dubugnon to orchestrate the pieces, presented here by a multi-generational team of leading singers. Album Tracks 1. Nuits de Juin 2. Châtiments 3. Chants Du Crépuscule (I) 4. Sans Titre en Fa Majeur Pour Clarinette Et Piano 5. Flebile Nescio Quid 6. Regret 7. Chanson de Jean Prouvaire 8. Simple Mélodie (II) en la Bémol Majeur Pour Flûte Et Piano 9. Ce Que Chantait Gavroche 1 10. Ce Que Chantait Gavroche 2 11. Ce Que Chantait Gavroche 3 12. Bourdon en Fa Mineur Pour Clarinette Et Piano 13. Hymne Des Transportés 14. Chant Sans Paroles en la Majeur Pour Violoncelle Et Piano 15. Chants Du Crépuscule (II) 16. L'oiseau Passe 17. Simple Mélodie (I) en Do Majeur Pour Clarinette Et Piano 18. Encore À Toi 19. Priez Pour Les Morts