Adèle Hugo, Sophie de Bardonnèche, The Amazing Keystone Big Band, Thus Love, Karen Lano, Eesah Yasuke

Melodies on poems by Victor Hugo

This set of unpublished pieces could pass for a family album (the words of an illustrious poet in agreement with the notes of his least regarded daughter), but it very quickly resembles a hollow portrait of a musician who the vagaries of a tormented life and a stifled posterity have been confined to the virtual existence of the bottom of the drawer. Adèle Hugo (1830-1915) undoubtedly composed only for herself, but her works, discovered in 2004 in Guernsey, are not amateur works. We perceive in the instrumental pages a desire for escape which, in the Melodies on poems by Victor Hugodoubles as an authentic proclamation of identity. The latter come to us in arrangements for orchestra made by Richard Dubugnon with as much coloristic sobriety as dramatic efficiency. Defended with conviction by the Victor Hugo Orchestra of Jean-François Verdier, the program judiciously renews the solo voices. However, it is the mezzo-sopranos who seem to best serve the lyricism of Adèle Hugo, expansive with Karine Deshayes (June nights) and penetrating with Isabelle Druet (Pray for the dead). Pierre Gervasoni

Destiny

Works by Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Mademoiselle Laurent, Mademoiselle Duval, Marie-Christine Fumeron, Anne-Madeleine Guesdon de Presles, Elisabeth-Louise Papavoine, Madame Talon, Anne (or Marguerite) Bocquet, Françoise-Charlotte de Menetou, Madame de The Causeway. With Louise Ayrton (violin), Marta Paramo and Clément Batrel-Genin (violas), Hanna Salzenstein (cello), Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba), Justin Taylor (harpsichord and organ).

For her first disc as a soloist, the young French violinist, founding member of the baroque music ensemble Le Consort, takes on the repertoire of 17th century composers^e and 18^e centuries. Aside from the relatively famous Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, whose magnificent Sonata in D minor has already been recorded, none of them have ever been recorded on disk. Some, married to composers, signed with their married name. Delicacy of line, quivering sensitivity, liveliness of the play of shadow and light, the musician passes with ease from the very Vivaldian Stormby Elisabeth-Louise Papavoine, with the striking lyricism of a Ariette by Anne-Madeleine Guesdon de Presles, without forgetting the dance, as in the elegant Gavotte written by Françoise-Charlotte de Menetou. Accompanied, in particular, by the viola da gamba of Lucile Boulanger and the harpsichord of Justin Taylor, the Orphic violin of Sophie de Bardonnèche offers these ten women a resurrection commensurate with their talent. Marie-Aude Roux

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