Adèle Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier

• Adèle Hugo (1830 - 1915): Nuits de juin:
• 1 Hugo: Nuits de juin (Arr. for Orchestra and Mezzo-Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 02:16
• Châtiments:
• 2 Hugo: Châtiments (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 04:42
• Chants du crépuscule (I):
• 3 Hugo: Chants du crépuscule (I) (Arr. for Orchestra and Mezzo-Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 03:42
• Sans titre en fa majeur pour clarinette et piano:
• 4 Hugo: Sans titre en fa majeur pour clarinette et piano 01:36
• Flebile nescio quid:
• 5 Hugo: Flebile nescio quid (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 02:53
• Regret:
• 6 Hugo: Regret (Arr. for Orchestra and Mezzo-Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 02:55
• Chanson de Jean Prouvaire:
• 7 Hugo: Chanson de Jean Prouvaire (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 03:59
• Simple mélodie (II) pour flûte et piano in A Flat-Major:
• 8 Hugo: Simple mélodie (II) pour flûte et piano in A Flat-Major 02:24
• Ce que chantait Gavroche:
• 9 Hugo: Ce que chantait Gavroche: No. 1 (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 02:57
• 10 Hugo: Ce que chantait Gavroche: No. 2 (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 03:30
• 11 Hugo: Ce que chantait Gavroche: No. 3 (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 01:47
• Bourdon pour clarinette et piano in F Minor:
• 12 Hugo: Bourdon pour clarinette et piano in F Minor 01:56
• Hymne des transportés:
• 13 Hugo: Hymne des transportés (Arr. for Orchestra, Choir and Baritone by Richard Dubugnon) 05:28
• Chant sans paroles pour violoncelle et piano in A Major:
• 14 Hugo: Chant sans paroles pour violoncelle et piano in A Major 02:14
• Chants du crépuscule (II):
• 15 Hugo: Chants du crépuscule (II) (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 03:20
• L'oiseau passe:
• 16 Hugo: L'oiseau passe (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 01:44
• Simple mélodie (I) pour clarinette et piano in C Major:
• 17 Hugo: Simple mélodie (I) pour clarinette et piano in C Major 01:47
• Encore à toi:
• 18 Hugo: Encore à toi (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 02:37
• Priez pour les morts:
• 19 Hugo: Priez pour les morts (Arr. for Orchestra and Mezzo-Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) 05:55
• Total Runtime 57:42

Info for Adèle Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo

This album pays homage to the composer Adèle 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 Misérables, as well as five songs without words. Appropriately, the Orchestre Victor Hugo and its Music Director Jean-François 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.

Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Isabelle Druet, mezzo-soprano
Axelle Fanyo, soprano
Anais Constans, soprano
Laurent Naouri, baritone
Choeur de l'Opera de Dijon
Orchestre Victor Hugo
Jean-Francois Verdier, conductor

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