Composer: Adèle Hugo
Performer: Karine Deshayes, Sandrine Piau, Isabelle Druet, Anaïde Apelian, Laurianne Corneille, Axelle Fanyo, Thomas Saulet, Anaïs Constans, Laurent Naouri, Sophie Paul-Magnien, Chœur de l’Opéra de Dijon
Orchestra: Orchestre Victor Hugo
Conductor: Jean-François Verdier
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1086
Release: 2024
Size: 988 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Nuits de juin
02. Châtiments
03. Chants du crépuscule (I)
04. Sans titre en fa majeur pour clarinette et piano
05. Flebile nescio quid
06. Regret
07. Chanson de Jean Prouvaire
08. Simple mélodie (II) pour flûte et piano in A Flat-Major
Ce que chantait Gavroche
09. No. 1
10. No. 2
11. No. 3
12. Bourdon pour clarinette et piano in F Minor
13. Hymne des transportés
14. Chant sans paroles pour violoncelle et piano in A Major
15. Chants du crépuscule (II)
16. L’oiseau passe
17. Simple mélodie (I) pour clarinette et piano in C Major
18. Encore à toi
19. Priez pour les morts
This album pays homage to the composer Adele Hugo (1830-1915), the fifth child of the great poet Victor Hugo. Suffering from lifelong psychological instability, she spent half of her tragic life in mental institutions, from the age of 42 until her death aged 85. Hers was an exalted and sensitive temperament; she became passionately fond of music from an early age, studying the piano and then composition. Her musical manuscripts were recently rediscovered, and the Director of the Victor Hugo Museums in Paris and Guernsey entrusted them to composer Richard Dubugnon, so as to research and reconstruct the jigsaw of these often quite fragmentary scores, which had been lying forgotten for more than a century. What has emerged is a set of fourteen of her songs on poems by Victor Hugo and verses taken from his great novel Les Miserables, as well as five songs without words. Appropriately, the Orchestre Victor Hugo and its Music Director Jean-Francois Verdier have been involved in the project, and they invited Dubugnon to orchestrate the pieces, presented here by a multi-generational team of leading singers.