1-4 Alma Mahler Lieder (orchestrated by David and Colin Matthews)
5 Claude Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande Symphonie
6-11 Alexander von Zemlinsky Six mélodies op.13 from the poems of Maurice Maeterlinck for mezzo-soprano and piano
12-17 Alexander von Zemlinsky Six mélodies op.13 from the poems of Maurice Maeterlinck for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (orchestrated by Gösta Neuwirth)
Published by Klarthe on September 16, 2016
Muses
An album about women: muse, heroine, composer, singer... The women featured on this album inspire, invent and breathe sublime music. Without a word, Maeterlink and Debussy's mysterious Mélisande comes to life and fades away. Alma, a free woman and artist in Vienna in the 1900s, imagines suave, melancholy music. Zemlinsky, long in love with and haunted by this same Alma, entrusts the female voice with his vision of Maeterlink's most evocative poems...
Isabelle Druet takes on the role of inspirer, muse to the Victor Hugo Orchestra and Jean-François Verdier for this new opus on the Klarthe label.
Distribution
Isabelle Druet, mezzo-soprano
Victor Hugo Franche-Comté Orchestra
Jean-François Verdier, conductor