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The rediscovery of music by female composers came a bit later to France than it did to Britain or the U.S., but the new label La Boîte à Pépites is changing that with a series of generous releases illustrated by nifty drawings of the composers. The label does a real service here with this double-album revival of vocal music by Rita Strohl (songs, plus a fascinating set for narrator and piano), who lived from 1865 to 1941. It is hard to understand the neglect of her music, which was praised by Henri Duparc and programmed by Pablo Casals in its own time. In these songs, it is a bit hard to hear the "compositrice de la démesure" ("composer of excess") promised by the album's subtitle; perhaps that is still to come in the label's series, but Strohl did expand upon her models -- Franck, with some Wagner and Debussy -- in striking ways. Perhaps the best-known Strohl work so far is the uniquely dramatic and programmatic cello sonata called Titus et Bérenice, presumably still to come from La Boîte à Pépites. However, the songs here are hefty in their ambition and reach, sounding in no way derivative of anybody else. Strohl offers her own set of Pierre Louÿs' lesbian Songs of Bilitis that could easily be programmed with Debussy's set of three. The second disc in the set is devoted mostly to settings of Baudelaire and other poets; the two cycles, written in 1891 and 1894, would have been received as entirely contemporary in their time. Most interesting of all is the set of narrations, titled Quand la flûte de Pan; they have Symbolist texts by the little-known Marie de Courpon, who was also a composer, and the relationship between text and music is fluid. The performances are by major artists, including the soprano Elsa Dreisig and baritone Stéphane Degout, which bodes well for the future of a series that has started promisingly indeed.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Bilitis (Rita Strohl)
Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Elsa Dreisig, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Quand la fûte de Pan (Rita Strohl)
Rita Strohl, Composer - Célia Oneto Bensaïd, Piano, MainArtist - Olivia Dalric, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Célia Oneto Bensaïd, Piano, MainArtist - Olivia Dalric, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Célia Oneto Bensaïd, Piano, MainArtist - Olivia Dalric, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Célia Oneto Bensaïd, Piano, MainArtist - Olivia Dalric, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Célia Oneto Bensaïd, Piano, MainArtist - Olivia Dalric, MainArtist
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Rita Strohl, Composer - Célia Oneto Bensaïd, Piano, MainArtist - Olivia Dalric, MainArtist
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DISC 2
Six Poésies de Baudelaire mises en musique (Rita Strohl)
Stéphane Degout, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Rita Strohl, Composer - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Stéphane Degout, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Rita Strohl, Composer - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Stéphane Degout, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Rita Strohl, Composer - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Stéphane Degout, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Rita Strohl, Composer - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Stéphane Degout, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Rita Strohl, Composer - Romain Louveau, Piano, MainArtist
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Dix Poésies mises en musique (Rita Strohl)
Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Adèle Charvet, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Florian Caroubi, Piano, MainArtist
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Album review
The rediscovery of music by female composers came a bit later to France than it did to Britain or the U.S., but the new label La Boîte à Pépites is changing that with a series of generous releases illustrated by nifty drawings of the composers. The label does a real service here with this double-album revival of vocal music by Rita Strohl (songs, plus a fascinating set for narrator and piano), who lived from 1865 to 1941. It is hard to understand the neglect of her music, which was praised by Henri Duparc and programmed by Pablo Casals in its own time. In these songs, it is a bit hard to hear the "compositrice de la démesure" ("composer of excess") promised by the album's subtitle; perhaps that is still to come in the label's series, but Strohl did expand upon her models -- Franck, with some Wagner and Debussy -- in striking ways. Perhaps the best-known Strohl work so far is the uniquely dramatic and programmatic cello sonata called Titus et Bérenice, presumably still to come from La Boîte à Pépites. However, the songs here are hefty in their ambition and reach, sounding in no way derivative of anybody else. Strohl offers her own set of Pierre Louÿs' lesbian Songs of Bilitis that could easily be programmed with Debussy's set of three. The second disc in the set is devoted mostly to settings of Baudelaire and other poets; the two cycles, written in 1891 and 1894, would have been received as entirely contemporary in their time. Most interesting of all is the set of narrations, titled Quand la flûte de Pan; they have Symbolist texts by the little-known Marie de Courpon, who was also a composer, and the relationship between text and music is fluid. The performances are by major artists, including the soprano Elsa Dreisig and baritone Stéphane Degout, which bodes well for the future of a series that has started promisingly indeed.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 34 track(s)
- Total length: 01:43:12
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Elsa Dreisig, Adèle Charvet, Stéphane Degout, Olivia Dalric, Célia Oneto Bensaid, Florian Caroubi, Romain Louveau
- Composer: Rita Strohl
- Label: La Boîte à Pépites
- Genre: Classical Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder Mélodies
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