Clair-Obscur / Sandrine Piau, Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, Jean-François Verdier

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Release Date
March 12, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BERG STRAUSS ZEMLINSKY
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orchestre Victor Hugo
    • PERFORMER
      Piau, Verdier
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 12, 2021
    • UPC
      3760014197277
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA727
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Waldgespräch: Es ist schon spat, es ist schon kalt

      Composer: Alexander Zemlinsky

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    2. 4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: No. 4. Morgen

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    3. 6 Lieder, Op. 37, TrV 187: No. 3. Meinem Kinde

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    4. No. 1. Nacht

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    5. No. 2. Schilflied

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    6. No. 3. Die Nachtigall

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    7. No. 4. Traumgekrönt

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    8. No. 5. Im Zimmer

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    9. No. 6. Liebesode

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    10. No. 7. Sommertage

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    11. No. 1. Frühling (Spring)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    12. No. 2. September

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    13. No. 3. Beim Schlafengehen (At Bedtime)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    14. No. 4. Im Abendrot (In the Evening Glow)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier

    15. Malven (Mallows), TrV 297

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jean-Francois Verdier


‘The dreamer! That double of our existence, that chiaroscuro of the thinking being’, wrote Gaston Bachelard in 1961. ‘The old is dying, the new cannot be born, and in that chiaroscuro, monsters appear’, adds Antonio Gramsci. Sandrine Piau has chosen to use these two quotations as an epigraph to her new recording: ‘My family and friends know about this obsession that never leaves me completely. The antagonism between light and darkness. The chiaroscuro, the space in between . . .’ This program, recorded with the Orchestre Victor Hugo under its conductor Jean-François Verdier, who is also principal clarinettist of the Paris Opéra, travels between the chilly Rhenish forest of Waldgespräch, a ballad by Zemlinsky composed for soprano and small ensemble in 1895, the night of the first of Berg’s Seven Early Songs (1905-08), and the sunlight of Richard Strauss’s Morgen, which are followed by the Four Last Songs, composed in 1948, the first two of which, Frühling and September (evoking spring and autumn respectively) are also, as Sandrine Piau concludes, ‘the seasons of life’.