Artist: Orchestre National De Metz

Title: Jolas, Bonis, Boulanger & Holmes: Poetesses Symphoniques

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2023

Label: La Dolce Volta

UPC: 3770001904634

Genre: Classical Artists

Album Tracks

1. * Augusta Holmes (1847 - 1903): Andromède, Poème Symphonique:
2. Holmes: Andromède, Poème Symphonique
3. * Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918): D'un Matin de Printemps:
4. Boulanger: D'un Matin de Printemps
5. * D'un Soir Triste:
6. Boulanger: D'un Soir Triste
7. * Mel Bonis (1858 - 1937): Femmes de Légende:
8. Femmes de Légende: I. Le Songe de Cléopâtre
9. Femmes de Légende: II. Ophélie
10. Femmes de Légende: III. Salomé
11. * Betsy Jolas (B. 1926): A Little Summer Suite:
12. A Little Summer Suite: I. Strolling Away
13. A Little Summer Suite: II. Knocks and Clocks
14. A Little Summer Suite: III. Strolling About
15. A Little Summer Suite: IV. Shakes and Quakes
16. A Little Summer Suite: V. Strolling Under
17. A Little Summer Suite: VI. Chants and Cheers
18. A Little Summer Suite: VII. Strolling Home

Do we need to know, before hearing a work, whether it was composed by a man or a woman? Does this information change the way we listen? Does it influence our judgment? With the works on this recording by Orchestre National de Metz and David Reiland, we enter the realm of so-called 'programme music'. Composers proclaim therein their ability to depict, through purely aural means, a non-musical subject. A poem, a narrative, a painting, a scene from a play or even a sculpture could be used as the basis for the score of a symphonic poem.