1- Alexander von Zemlinsky Waldgespräch
2- Richard Strauss Morgen!
3- Richard Strauss Meinem Kinde
4-10 Alban Berg Sieben frühe lieder
11-14 Richard Strauss Vier letzte lieder
15- Richard Strauss Malven

Release March 12, 2021 by Alpha Classics

2021

Clair-Obscur

The dreamer! This double of our being, this chiaroscuro of the thinking being," wrote Gaston Bachelard in 1961. "The old world is dying, the new is slow to appear, and in this chiaroscuro monsters arise," continues Antonio Gramsci. Sandrine Piau has chosen to use these two quotations as a preface to her new recording: "Those close to me know this obsession, which never completely leaves me. The antagonism between light and darkness. The chiaroscuro, the in-between...".

This program, recorded with the Victor Hugo Orchestra conducted by Jean-François Verdier, conductor and super-solo clarinetist at the Paris Opera, takes us from the cold Rhine forest of Waldgespräch, a ballad by Zemlinsky composed in 1895 for soprano and small ensemble, the night of the first of Berg's Sieben frühe Lieder (1905-1908), the sun of Richard Strauss's Morgen, followed by the Four Last Songs, composed in 1948, whose first two, Frühling (spring) and September (autumn), are also "the seasons of life", concludes Sandrine Piau.

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Sandrine Piau, soprano
Victor Hugo Orchestra
Jean-François Verdier, conductor

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