The album title 'Visages' (Faces) explores how a being finds itself in encounters and crossed dreams, revealing hidden desires.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Guillaume Lekeu, a Belgian composer, believed in an 'immaterialised and purified' woman through art, rather than incarnate love.
Composition History
Richard Wagner dedicated his five Wesendonck-Lieder to his mistress, Mathilde Wesendonck, between 1857 and 1858, despite her husband being his wealthy patron.
Recording & Production
This album is a tribute to Udo Reinemann, a voice teacher with whom soprano Marie-Claude Solanet regularly performed and initiated international master classes.
Compositional Technique
The music of Guillaume Lekeu, a student of César Franck, features dark, mysterious Romanticism of the late 19th century with nuanced poetic dreams and rebellious expressiveness.
Composer Biography
Guillaume Lekeu died at the age of 24 from typhoid fever, a year after confiding his struggle to achieve his artistic ideal.
Composer Biography
Henri Duparc, a French composer, wrote only 13 songs over 16 years, which Ravel enthusiastically declared 'imperfect but brilliant'.
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