BACK TO SCHOOL FIGURES – The Corsican mezzo is preparing to sing her first Carmen in Versailles and is publishing her first solo album, a tribute to her native land.
This season will remain for her that of all firsts. First solo album, released a month and a half ago on Oktav Records: A Voice of a Terra. A fabulous recording recital that we would like to hear more often. A blatant tribute to his native Corsica, he carries the concern for authenticity and accuracy of a song as polymorphous as his island. As natural as its inhabitants and the playing of the musicians of Act Six, who accompany it. The album offers one of the tastiest rediscoveries of recent years: the Popular Corsican melodies, orchestrated by Ravel at the age of 20, at the request of folklorist Austin de Croze.
Known to specialists but hardly to the general public, these treasures of simplicity with such captivating harmonizations, where the polyphonic spells of the Isle of Beauty intermingle, like those of the future author of Scheherazade. They were exhumed from the manuscript kept at the Musée de la Corse de Corte, by a child…
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