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Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
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Label: Bru Zane
Cat No: BZ2006
Barcode: 8055776010090
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 8
Release Date: 10th March 2023
Twenty-one composers, with dates of birth ranging from 1764 to 1893, are represented in this always fascinating and sometimes revelatory collection of more than 160 pieces, from which only a handful of the names will be familiar to even assiduous concert goers and record collectors on this side of the Channel. ... This kind of meticulously assembled survey, expertly performed and beautifully presented with scrupulous documentation (though without texts and translations for the many songs) does far more for the cause of these unjustly overlooked composers than any number of books making grand claims about their importance; those championing their British equivalents would do well to follow its example. 
The discoveries come tumbling forth, as if there is no limit to the neglected women composers who could be included in this ambitious project. Over the past decade, Bru Zane has been championing a rediscovery of forgotten French romantic music, especially operas, but here it has excelled itself. ... There are some real discoveries. Among the works getting their first recordings are Charlotte Sohy’s passionately heated Symphony in C sharp minor, the seductive salon music of Jeanne Danglas’s 
I’ve really enjoyed wading through often fascinating repertoire from 19th and early 20th composers mostly little known (Mel Bonis? Charlotte Sohy?), delivered with gusto by a range of French singers, pianists, string players, and four orchestras. ... each disc includes at least one bigger splash, from Nadia Boulanger’s rather frightening cantata “La Sirène” to Cécile Chaminade’s hugely appealing ballet suite “Callirhoé”.
