24 French Songs and Arias by Women Composers

Description

From the same team that brought you 24 Italian Songs & Arias by Women Composers, comes 24 French Songs & Arias by Women Composers! These songs are not found in the most well known and available French anthologies and many have been unavailable and hard to find before now. The collection includes selections by the familiar composers Farrenc, Grandval, Viardot and will introduce singers to the lesser known composers Marguerite Olagnier, Hortense Bonaparte, Hedwige Chrétien and many others.

Contents:
• Irène Baume: Le vent dans la lande
• Marie Emmanuelle Bayon: “Air” de Fleur d’Épine
• Louise Bertin: “Romance” from Le loup-garou
• Hortense de Beauharnais: Nous
• Marguerite Canal: “Elvire’s Aria” from scène dramatique Don Juan
• Amélie Julie Candeille: Romance de Catherine
• Hedwige Chrétien: La chanson bénie
• Hedwige Chrétien: Prismes lunaire
• Pauline Duchambge: Restez pauvre Fille
• Victorine Louise Farrenc: La jeune malade
• Edmée Sophie Gail: Bolleros
• Clémence Grandval: Chrysa
• Lucille Grétry: Dès le premiers jours from Le mariage d’Antonio
• Élizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre: Two Recitatives from Esther
• Augusta Holmès: Parmi les Meules
• Marguerite Olagnier: “Couplets de Nasleh” from Le sais
• Loïsa Puget: La chanson du pays
• Marcelle Fanny Henriette Soulage: De plaines en plaines
• Marcelle Fanny Henriette Soulage: Nocturne
• Pauline Thys: “Rosette’s Aria” from La pomme de Turquie
• Delphine Ugalde: “Air de Magloire” from La Halte au Moulin
• Pauline Viardot: Premier trouble
• Jane Vieu: Les bonnes fées
• Jane Vieu: Vers le rêve