Various Artists - Song Cycles / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Tango Ouh 2. Elisa 3. Superblond 4. Snack 1 5. Waltz for Michel Petrucciani 6. Proko-Type of Polka 7. Snack 2 8. Kartzan's Choice 9. Heartfilms 10. Snack 3 11. 010101 12. Superblond (Single Version)

Juliette Hurel and Hélène Couvert, who have long enjoyed a close rapport on the concert 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! Album Tracks 1. Sonate~I. Andantino con moto 2. Sonate~II. Scherzo-Vivace 3. Sonate~III. Adagio 4. Sonate~IV. Finale-Moderato 5. Nocturne 6. D'un Matin de Printemps 7. Suite~I. Prélude 8. Suite~II. Scherzo 9. Suite~III. Menuet 10. Suite~IV. Romance 11. Suite~V. Final 12. Pièce, Op. 189 13. Scherzo (Finale), Op. Posthume 187 14. Sérénade aux Étoiles, Op. 142 15. Trois Petites Pièces~Chanson 16. Trois Petites Pièces~Clair de Lune 17. Trois Petites Pièces~Gigue

The Voce Quartet writes InchPlaying the demanding and constantly shifting string quartet repertory is enough to fill up four lives. Buoyed up by this heritage, we wanted to explore less well-known territories. In the early years of the twentieth century, Bartok and Kodaly roamed the villages of Hungary and Romania, collecting, transcribing and recording hundreds of folk tunes and songs. Building on a number of encounters with leading figures of jazz and world music, we asked five instrumentalist-composers to write us pieces inspired by musical worlds to which they feel close. In addition to these new compositions, we wanted to record Escalay by the Egyptian oud player Hamza el Din who died in 2006, a nod to the Kronos Quartet whose approach is an inspiration to us.Inch The Voce Quartet is Sarah Dayan and Cecile Roubin (violins), Guillaume Becker, and Lydia Shelley. Album Tracks 1. Bethklang 2. In the Element 3. Méditation 4. Danse 5. Suite Capoeira 6. Sawah Padi / Putri Cening Ayu 7. Escalay (Water Wheel)