Based on an research project that is both ambitious and exigent as to the quality of the selected works, the goal of the record label “La Boîte à Pépites” is to shine a light on works that have never (or almost never) been recorded.
Far from the fashionable interest in “women composers”, for which the theme of “women” suffices to select concert or CD programmes, our label places the accent squarely on the compositions themselves, uniting a group of musicians in a common project :
“ The composer is placed at the very centre of the project, and we, the musicians, place ourselves together at the service of her music.”
Héloïse Luzzati, artistic director
RITA STROHL
UNE COMPOSITRICE DE LA DEMESURE
“Ms Strohl is a composer of genius who particularly excels in setting the loveliest poems to music.”
(La Nation, February 26, 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 have never been recorded until now.
CD 1
Bilitis
Poèmes en douze chants extrait des Chansons de Bilitis de Pierre Louÿs (1898)
Elsa Dreisig & Romain Louveau
Quand la flûte de Pan (1901)
Olivia Dalric & Célia Oneto Bensaid
CD 2
Six Poésies de Baudelaire mises en musique (1894)
Stéphane Degout & Romain Louveau
Dix poésies mises en musique (1901)
Adèle Charvet & Florian Caroubi
Carmen (1899)
Adèle Charvet & Florian Caroubi
Recording: Mireille Faure
Editing: Aurélie Martin
Mixing, mastering : Mireille Faure
Piano : Steinway D, prepared by Norbert Picart
Recording: Mireille Faure
Editing: Aurélie Martin
Mixing, mastering : Mireille Faure
Piano : Steinway D, prepared by Norbert Picart
CHARLOTTE SOHY
COMPOSITRICE DE LA BELLE EPOQUE
A musician collective rehabilitates forgotten works.
Charlotte Sohy brought to life thirty-five compositions for every kind of musical formation, of which fifteen, never previously recorded, are in this album. The record label La Boîte à Pépites grew out of the YouTube channel of the same name and the Festival Un Temps pour Elles. This album is the first release of a collection destined to bring to light a plethora of forgotten works by women composers.
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
Recording: Mireille Faure with the help of Adrien Frachon
Editing: Aurélien Bourgois, Mireille Faure, Aurélie Martin
Mixing, mastering: Mireille Faure
Chamber music
Premier Quatuor op. 25
Quatuor Hermès
Deuxième Quatuor op. 33
Quatuor Hermès
Triptyque champêtre op. 21
Mathilde Calderini, Omer Bouchez, Lou Yung-Hsin Chang, Yan Levionnois & Constance Luzzati
Recording: Mireille Faure with the help of Adrien Frachon
Editing: Aurélien Bourgois, Mireille Faure, Aurélie Martin
Mixing, mastering: Mireille Faure
Orchestral music
Trois Chants nostalgiques op. 7
Deux Poèmes chantés op. 17
Thème varié op. 15 bis
Histoire sentimentale op. 34
Méditations op. 18
Orchestre national Avignon-Provence
Debora Waldman, direction
Marie Perbost, soprano
Aude Extrémo, mezzo-soprano
Cordelia Palm, violon
Recording: Mireille Faure assistée d’Adrien Frachon
Editing: Aurélien Bourgois, Mireille Faure, Aurélie Martin
Mixing, mastering: Mireille Faure
