Orchestre Victor Hugo, Jean-François Verdier – Adèle Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Orchestre Victor Hugo, Jean-François Verdier – Adèle Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:50 minutes | 989 MB | Genre: Classical
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This album pays homage to the composer Adele Hugo (1830-1915), the fifth child of the great poet Victor Hugo. Suffering from lifelong psychological instability, she spent half of her tragic life in mental institutions, from the age of 42 until her death aged 85. Hers was an exalted and sensitive temperament; she became passionately fond of music from an early age, studying the piano and then composition. Her musical manuscripts were recently rediscovered, and the Director of the Victor Hugo Museums in Paris and Guernsey entrusted them to composer Richard Dubugnon, so as to research and reconstruct the jigsaw of these often quite fragmentary scores, which had been lying forgotten for more than a century. What has emerged is a set of fourteen of her songs on poems by Victor Hugo and verses taken from his great novel Les Miserables, as well as five songs without words. Appropriately, the Orchestre Victor Hugo and its Music Director Jean-Francois Verdier have been involved in the project, and they invited Dubugnon to orchestrate the pieces, presented here by a multi-generational team of leading singers.

Tracklist:

01. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Nuits de juin (Arr. for Orchestra and Mezzo-Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (02:16)
02. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Châtiments (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (04:42)
03. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Chants du crépuscule (I) (Arr. for Orchestra and Mezzo-Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (03:42)
04. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Sans titre en fa majeur pour clarinette et piano (01:36)
05. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Flebile nescio quid (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (02:53)
06. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Regret (Arr. for Orchestra and Mezzo-Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (02:55)
07. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Chanson de Jean Prouvaire (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (03:59)
08. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Simple mélodie (II) pour flûte et piano in A Flat-Major (02:24)
09. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Ce que chantait Gavroche: No. 1 (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (02:57)
10. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Ce que chantait Gavroche: No. 2 (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (03:30)
11. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Ce que chantait Gavroche: No. 3 (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (01:47)
12. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Bourdon pour clarinette et piano in F Minor (01:56)
13. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Hymne des transportés (Arr. for Orchestra, Choir and Baritone by Richard Dubugnon) (05:28)
14. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Chant sans paroles pour violoncelle et piano in A Major (02:14)
15. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Chants du crépuscule (II) (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (03:20)
16. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: L’oiseau passe (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (01:44)
17. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Simple mélodie (I) pour clarinette et piano in C Major (01:47)
18. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Encore à toi (Arr. for Orchestra and Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (02:37)
19. Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Hugo: Priez pour les morts (Arr. for Orchestra and Mezzo-Soprano by Richard Dubugnon) (05:55)

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