IDAGIO | Mademoiselle: Première audience – Unknown Music of Nadia Boulanger 013491349626

Featuring

Nicole Cabell
Lucy Mauro
Aleksey Shrader
Edwin Crossley-Mercer
Amit Peled
François-Henri Houbart

Nadia Boulanger

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Recording & Production

This album features 13 world premiere recordings of Nadia Boulanger's compositions, including eight songs and three piano pieces transcribed from her unpublished manuscripts.

Instruments

The organ works on this album are performed on the historic Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Madeleine church in Paris, an instrument Nadia Boulanger herself played as a substitute organist.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Nadia Boulanger believed that 'Music was not invented by the composer, but found,' reflecting her philosophy on musical creation.

Critical Reception

Nadia Boulanger was self-deprecating about her own compositions, considering them 'useless,' despite her teacher Gabriel Fauré's belief that she should not have given up composing.

Interpretation

The performers arranged the works on this album not chronologically, but to highlight their intrinsic musical value and to evoke the variety and intimacy of salon concerts, which Boulanger often participated in.

Compositional Technique

Nadia Boulanger's compositions are meticulously crafted in a late romantic style, featuring tonal harmonies with chromatic elements, occasional dissonance, and influences from Debussy and Fauré.

Composer Biography

Nadia Boulanger, a legendary teacher and composer, stopped composing altogether after 1922, dedicating herself to her students and becoming one of the 20th century's most influential educators.