Compositrices: A l'aube du XXe siecle / Hurel, Couvert

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Couvert, Hurel
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 24, 2020
    • UPC
      3760014195730
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA573
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Andantino con moto

      Composer: Mélanie Bonis

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    2. II. Scherzo: Vivace

      Composer: Mélanie Bonis

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    3. III. Adagio

      Composer: Mélanie Bonis

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    4. VI. Finale: Moderato

      Composer: Mélanie Bonis

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    5. Nocturne

      Composer: Lili Boulanger

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    6. D'un matin de printemps

      Composer: Lili Boulanger

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    7. I. Prélude

      Composer: Clémence de Grandval

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    8. II. Scherzo

      Composer: Clémence de Grandval

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    9. III. Menuet

      Composer: Clémence de Grandval

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    10. IV. Romance

      Composer: Clémence de Grandval

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    11. V. Final

      Composer: Clémence de Grandval

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    12. Pièce for Flute and Piano, Op. 189

      Composer: Mélanie Bonis

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    13. Final, Op. 187

      Composer: Mélanie Bonis

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    14. Sérénade aux Étoiles, Op. 142

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    15. No. 1. Chanson

      Composer: Augusta Holmès

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    16. No. 2. Clair de lune

      Composer: Augusta Holmès

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert

    17. No. 3. Gigue

      Composer: Augusta Holmès

      Performer: Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert


Juliette Hurel and Hélène Couvert, who have long enjoyed a close rapport on the concert platform 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!