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Album: women composers

8 CDs

Mel Bonis, Lili et Nadia Boulanger, Marthe Bracquemond, Cécile Chaminade, Hedwige Chrétien, Marie-Foscarine Damaschino, Jeanne Danglas, Louise Farrenc, Clémence de Grandval, Marthe Grumbach, Augusta Holmès, Madeleine Jaeger, Marie Jaëll, Madeleine Lemariey, Hélène de Montgeroult, Virginie Morel, Henriette Renié, Charlotte Sohy, Rita Strohl, Pauline Viardot.

INTERPRÈTES

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, direction Leo Hussain; Orchestre national de France, direction Débora Waldman; Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est dir. David Reiland, Les Siècles, dir François-Xavier Roth; Victor Julien-Laferrière & Théo Fouchenneret, Cyrille Dubois & Tristan Raës, Ismaël Margain & Quatuor Hanson, Yann Beuron & David Zobel, Aude Extremo & Étienne Manchon, Alexandre Pascal, Héloïse Luzzati & Célia Oneto Bensaid, Anna Egholm & Frank Braley, Roberto Prosseda & Alessandra Ammara, François Dumont, Marie Vermeulin, Nathalia Milstein, Mihály Berecz

Bru-Zane Label, 2023

"..., for me, the biggest discovery of all, the three pieces in the Femmes de Légende series, Le Rêve de Cléopâtre, Ophélie and Salomé, by Mel Bonis, which are wonderfully crafted miniatures clearly indebted to Debussy, but at the same time distinctively individual. Bonis is represented in the set by some of her piano music and songs too, all of which makes one want to hear much more of her music."
Andrew Clement, The Guardian, 23/03/2023