Muses

An album about women: muse, heroine, composer, singer.....The women reunited in this this album inspire, invent and emanate sublime music. Without a single word, the mysterious Mélisande who inspired Maeterlink and Debussy, takes form then floats away. Alma, a free spirit and an artist in Vienna at the dawn of the 20th century, imagines a suave and melancholy music. Zemlinsky, forever in love and haunted by this same Alma, uses the female voice to express his vision of the most evocative poems by Maeterlink...

Isabelle Druet takes on this inspirational role, the muse of the Orchestre Victor Hugo and Jean-François Verdier for this new opus with the Klarthe Records label.

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Interview de Jean-François Verdier sur classicagenda

Alma Mahler / Lieder

orchestration David et Colin Matthews

Claude Debussy / Pelléas et Mélisande Symphonie

realisation Marius Constant

Alexander von Zemlinsky / Six mélodies op. 13 sur des poésies de Maurice Maeterlinck

for mezzo-soprano and piano

Alexander von Zemlinsky / Six mélodies op. 13 sur des poésies de Maurice Maeterlinck

for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (orchestration Gösta Neuwirth)
world premiere

Isabelle Druet, mezzo-soprano

Anne Le Bozec, piano

Orchestre Victor Hugo

Jean-François Verdier, conductor