RECORDING
WOMEN COMPOSERS
Created in 2022, the record label La Boîte à Pépites carries on the association’s mission with a new objective: to publish monographic albums. Each project focuses on a single female composer and brings together a collective of prestigious musicians. By including illustrated and documented booklets, and entrusting the recording to today’s greatest musicians, the label offers reference versions of works that have never been recorded before.
CLÉMENCE DE GRANDVAL
AU CŒUR DU ROMANTISME FRANÇAIS
Coming out on October 30th
When Clémence de Grandval wrote to her mentor and friend Camille Saint-Saëns that she had ‘committed no crime other than being a woman,’ she had already fully established herself in the musical life of her time. A leading figure of French romanticism, she was an admired composer whose works were performed on major stages and honoured by the Académie des beaux-arts. Her music embraces every kind of ensemble, from chamber music to opera. Bringing together more than 100 artists, this portrait in four CDs offers a wide-ranging survey of her work, from the overwhelming Stabat Mater to the intimacy of her chamber pieces and songs.
4 CDs – 4h36′
CD1
Andante et Intermezzo for violin, cello and piano (1889)
Sébastien Surel, Héloïse Luzzati, Théo Fouchenneret
Romance et Gavotte for oboe, cello and piano (1884)
Alexandre Gattet, Héloïse Luzzati, Théo Fouchenneret
Deux Pièces for clarinet and piano (1885)
Raphaël Sévère, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger
Trio de salon for oboe, bassoon and piano (-)
Alexandre Gattet, Julien Hardy, Théo Fouchenneret
Suite for flute and piano (1876)
Mathilde Calderini, Guillaume Bellom
Valse mélancolique for flute and harp (1891)
Mathilde Calderini, Constance Luzzati
Lamento et Scherzo for oboe and piano (1877)
Alexandre Gattet, Théo Fouchenneret
Quatre Pièces for English horn and piano (1885)
Alexandre Gattet, Théo Fouchenneret
CD2
Sonate op. 8 for violin and piano (1851)
Raphaëlle Moreau, David Kadouch
Chanson d’autrefois [Guillaume Costeley] (1890)
Camille Chopin, Célia Oneto Bensaid
La Source [Anna Maria Lenngren, trad. Xavier Marmier] (1851)
Camille Chopin, Célia Oneto Bensaid
Pensée d’amour (-)
Camille Chopin, Célia Oneto Bensaid
Menuet [Fernand Gregh] (1901)
Camille Chopin, Célia Oneto Bensaid
Hébé, lyrical scene for soprano [Paul Collin] (1892)
Camille Chopin, Célia Oneto Bensaid
Deux Pièces for violin and piano (1882)
Raphaëlle Moreau, David Kadouch
Villanelle for voice, violin and piano [Jean Passerat] (1877)
Fiona McGown, Raphaëlle Moreau, David Kadouch
Au bord de l’eau [Sully Prudhomme] (1884)
Fiona McGown, David Kadouch
À l’hirondelle [Sully Prudhomme] (1884)
Fiona McGown, David Kadouch
Le Vase brisé [Sully Prudhomme] (1884)
Fiona McGown, David Kadouch
La Chute des étoiles [Charles Marie Leconte de Lisle] (-)
Fiona McGown, David Kadouch
CD3
Trois Pièces for cello and piano (1883)
Héloïse Luzzati, Théo Fouchenneret
Sacrifice [Sully Prudhomme] (1885)
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
Le Galop [Sully Prudhomme] (1884)
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
La Délaissée [Jean Du Boys] (1867)
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
Chanson laponne [Armand Silvestre] (1893)
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
Soupir [Sully Prudhomme] (1884)
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
Scrupule [Sully Prudhomme]
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
Prière [Sully Prudhomme] (1884)
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
Les Trois Oiseaux [François Coppée] (-)
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
En Automne [François Coppée] (-)
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
Les Lucioles [Ernest-Wilfrid Legouvé] (1866)
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
Chanson d’exil [François Coppée] (-)
Coline Dutilleul, Flore Merlin
Deuxième Grand Trio for violin, cello and piano (1853)
Trio Zeliha : Manon Galy, Maxime Quennesson, Jorge González Buajasán
CD4
Stabat Mater (1870)
Gabrielle Philiponet soprano
Aude Extrémo mezzo-soprano [contralto]
Julien Henric tenor
Nikolay Borchev barytone
Anne Le Bozec piano
Sarah Kim harmonium
Chœur de Radio France
Lionel Sow conductor
Introduction
No. 1. Stabat Mater [soli et chœur]
No. 2. O quam tristis ! [air pour soprano]
No. 3. Quis est homo [quatuor SCTB]
No. 4. Pro peccatis [trio SCT et chœur]
No. 5. Eia ! Mater [air de ténor et chœur]
No. 6. Sancta Mater [duo soprano-baryton]
No. 7. Juxta crucem [air contralto]
No. 8. Fac ut portem [quatuor sans accompagnement SCTB]
No. 9. Inflammatus [final soli et chœur]
MARIE JAËLL
A QUEST FOR INFINITY
An acclaimed virtuoso on the European stage, Marie Jaëll was also a renowned composer in her own time. Alongside her monumental Piano Quartet, this album presents a selection of her chamber works in their world premiere recordings. Composed between 1875 and 1886, these pieces offer a window into the output of a unique artist, more concerned with the pursuit of an artistic ideal than with seeking recognition.
1 CD – 1h00′
Piano Quartet in G minor (1875)
Manon Galy, Léa Hennino, Héloïse Luzzati and Célia Oneto Bensaid
Dans un rêve for violin, cello and piano (c.1881)
Manon Galy, Héloïse Luzzati and Célia Oneto Bensaid
Romance for violin and piano (1882)
Ballade for violin and piano (1886)
Manon Galy and Célia Oneto Bensaid
RITA STROHL
A COMPOSER OF IMMENSITY
“Mrs. Strohl is a composer of genius who particularly excels in setting the loveliest poems to music.”
(La Nation, February 26th, 1903)
Rita Strohl is an atypical figure in the history of music. Attracted to both the Wagnerian universe and symbolism, she composed works of chamber music as well as grand lyrical and symphonic soundscapes. This double CD containing performances by exceptional artists is the first part of a three-part project dedicated to the music of Rita Strohl. It is entirely devoted to her songs, most of which were previously unrecorded.
2 CDs – 1h43′
CD1
Bilitis
Elsa Dreisig & Romain Louveau
Quand la flûte de Pan
Olivia Dalric & Célia Oneto Bensaid
CD2
Six poésies de Baudelaire mises en musique
Stéphane Degout & Romain Louveau
Dix poésies mises en musique
Carmen
Adèle Charvet & Florian Caroubi
“Mrs. Strohl, whose marvelous talent as a composer reveals itself to be surer and more powerful every day, is undoubtedly called to a luminous destiny.”
(Edouard Moullé, Revue éolienne, February 1900)
From 1884 to 1903, Rita Strohl composed numerous chamber works, most of them deeply romantic, imbued, in her own words, with a “devoutly conservative and colorful spirit”. This triple CD contains performances by a group of sixteen prestigious musicians. The second volume of a projected three-volume collection of the works of Rita Strohl, it is devoted to her chamber music, almost none of which had ever been recorded.
3 CDs – 3h21′
CD1
Grande Fantaisie-Quintette
Septuor
Arlequin et Colombine
CD2
Quatuor avec piano
Deuxième trio
Solitude
CD3
Premier trio
Quatuor à cordes
Musiques sur l’eau
“She gave language to the most sublime abstractions, clad water and fire in orchestral flesh, and suggested through sound the motions of atoms and sap.”
(Carlos Larronde, Le Soir, March 6th, 1931)
With Les Cygnes [The Swans] and the Symphonie de la Forêt [Forest Symphony], Rita Strohl sought a form of communion with nature, a decisive turning point towards a musical style that became increasingly symbolist and spiritual, which subsequently led her to compose grand lyrical and mystical works such as Yajnavalkya.
1 CD – 1h14′
Coming soon (October 11th)
Symphonie de la Forêt
Les Cygnes
La Flûte de Pan
La Momie
La Cloche fêlée
Yajnavalkya : Prélude de l’Acte II
JEANNE LELEU
A DAZZLING TRIUMPH
“Grand Prix de Rome for composition in 1923, Jeanne Leleu deserves a dazzling triumph that any other country apart from ours would have already brilliantly accorded her.”
(Le Monde, April 30th, 1947)
A child prodigy and virtuoso at the piano, Jeanne Leleu was chosen to premiere Ravel’s famous piece “Ma mère l’Oye” at the age of eleven. A brilliant composer, she wrote many masterpieces, songs, chamber music, ballets and symphonic works. Her pieces were performed at the Paris Opera and by the most important orchestras of her time, and she was unanimously acclaimed by her peers and by the critics. This first volume, devoted to her youthful works, will allow listeners to rediscover a major, unjustly forgotten figure in 20th century music.
1 CD – 1h07′
Quatuor avec piano
Alexandre Pascal, Léa Hennino, Héloïse Luzzati & Célia Oneto Bensaid
Six sonnets de Michel-Ange
Marie-Laure Garnier & Célia Oneto Bensaid
En Italie (excerpts)
Célia Oneto Bensaid
CHARLOTTE SOHY
COMPOSITRICE DE LA BELLE ÉPOQUE
« February 17th. A Friday musicale. Mrs. Labey has played her music for us. It is quite good. Messager is taking an interest. »
(Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux, Diary, 1922)
Charlotte Sohy brought to life thirty-five compositions for every kind of musical formation, of which fifteen, previously unrecorded, are in this album. The record label la Boîte à Pépites dedicated its first monographic album to her. Its aim is to bring to light a plethora of forgotten works by women composers.
3 CDs – 3h04′
CD1 – Piano music
Fantaisie op. 3
David Kadouch
Chants de la lande op. 4
Marie-Laure Garnier & Célia Oneto Bensaid
Sonate op. 6
Célia Oneto Bensaid
Octobre op. 23 n°1
Héloïse Luzzati & Célia Oneto Bensaid
Quatre pièces romantiques op. 30
Marie Vermeulin
Trio op. 24
Nikola Nikolov, Xavier Phillips, Célia Oneto Bensaid
CD2 – Chamber music
Premier Quatuor op. 25
Deuxième Quatuor op. 33
Quatuor Hermès
Triptyque champêtre op. 21
Mathilde Calderini, Constance Luzzati & Quatuor Hermès
CD3 – Orchestral music
Trois chants nostalgiques op. 7
Deux poèmes chantés op. 17
Thème varié op. 15 bis
Histoire sentimentale op. 34
Méditations op. 18
Aude Extrémo, Cordelia Palm, Marie Perbost, Orchestre National Avignon-Provence
