Contes

 
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL / HUGO WOLF / RICHARD STRAUSS / ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY / MEL BONIS / LOUISE DIDIER / FRANCIS POULENC etc
Contes
Sandrine Piau; David Kadouch

[ Alpha Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 18 September 2026

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Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch are reuniting for a project that the French soprano conceived as the second part of a diptych begun with Voyage intime (Alpha 911).

This time we enter the world of childhood, but even though this album is called Contes, but "these aren't stories for children", says David Kadouch. Actually, these stories might even present themselves in a way that provokes anxiety - dark and menacing…Sandrine Piau continues: "Folk tales and legends often serve as an initiation and they also act providentially as pebbles that guide us through the forest of our most secret atavistic fears."

With their well-known and recognised expertise, Piau and Kadouch bring together composers from a variety of linguistic and artistic backgrounds - Hahn, Debussy, Ravel, Wolf, Strauss, Zemlinsky, Poulenc, Shostakovich… and introduce us to fascinating female composers such as Jeanne Bernard (1895-1965), Wally Karnevo (1914-2015), Louise Didier (1872-1955) and Ilse Weber (1903-1944).

Tracks:

JEANNE BERNARD - Trois chansons de Bilitis
I. Les petits enfants
II. Les contes
III. Berceuse

REYNALDO HAHN
À Chloris

WALLY KARVENO
La robe de lune

CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Premier livre de préludes, L. 117
La fille aux cheveux de lin

MAURICE RAVEL - Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
I. Le réveil de la mariée
II. Là-bas, vers l'église
III. Quel galant m'est comparable
IV. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
V. Tout gai !

HUGO WOLF
Sechs Lieder für eine Frauenstimme: No. 6, Mausfallensprüchlein
Mörike-Lieder: No. 47, Die Geister am Mummelsee

RICHARD STRAUSS - Fünf Lieder, Op. 41
No. 1, Wiegenlied

ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY
Vier Lieder: No. 3, Schlummerlied
Sechs Lieder, Op. 22: No. 4, Elfenlied

MEL BONIS
Mélisande, Op. 109

LOUISE DIDIER
La pluie

FRANCIS POULENC - La courte paille, FP 178
I. Le sommeil
II. Quelle aventure !
III. La reine de cœur
IV. Ba, Be, Bi, Bo, Bu
V. Les anges musiciens
VI. Le carafon
VII. Lune d'avril

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Ophelia's Song, Op. 127

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
La belle au bois dormant, L. 74

ILSE WEBER
Wiegala