SANDRINE PIAU

 

Evocation

 

The Music of Chausson, Strauss, Debussy, Zemlinsky, Koechlin, Schoenberg

 

Chausson

Hébé Op. 2 No. 6

Le Charme Op. 2 No. 2

Sérénade Op. 13

Le Colibri Op. 2 No. 7

Le Temps des lilas Op. 19

Richard Strauss

Mädchenblumen Op. 22

Kornblumen

Mohnblumen

Epheu

Wasserrose

Debussy

Nuit d’étoiles

Romance “L’Âme évaporée”

Fleur des blés

Zéphir

Zemlinsky

Liebe und Frühling

Das Rosenband

Frühlingslied

Wandl’ich im wald des Abends

Entführung

Sommer Op. 27

Koechlin

Sept Chansons pour Gladys Op. 151

Schoenberg

Vier Lieder Op. 2

 

Sandrine Piau - Soprano

Susan Manoff – Piano

 

Sandrine Piau is one of the most highly acclaimed of the new generation of French singers. She is here joined by the pianist Susan Manoff in a wonderful selection of poetic melodies on the theme of women.

 

After initially making her name in Baroque music performance working with such conductors as William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Haïm, Sigiswald Kuijken, Gustav Leonhardt and René Jacobs, Sandrine Piau today possesses a broad repertoire mirrored by her substantial discography, and has confirmed her key position in the new generation of French singers. In the opera house she has appeared to great acclaim in L’incoronazione di Poppea (Amsterdam and New York), Serse (Dresden and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), and Tamerlano (Drottningholm and Amsterdam). Sandrine Piau’s concert appearances have included L’Enfant et les sortilèges (with Myung-Whun Chung), Die Schöpfung (with Daniel Harding), Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (with Kurt Masur at the Berlin Philharmonie), Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (recorded with Philippe Herreweghe), and Mozart’s C minor Mass at the Salzburg Festival. She has also forged a successful career on the recital circuit, and has already produced a string of highly regarded recordings, including a disc of songs by Debussy with the pianist Jos van Immerseel, which was awarded the Prix Ravel at the Orphées de l’Académie du Disque Lyrique. A recital CD of Mozart opera arias with the Freiburger Barockorchester won a Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros, while her Handel album with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques was named ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone and won the Stanley Sadie Handel Recording Prize for the year 2005. Most recently, her CD of Vivaldi’s motets with Ottavio Dantone and the Accademia Bizantina was voted Baroque Recording of the year at the Midem Classical Awards.

 

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