With an anthology of French melodies of which it is a specialist, the young duo formed by soprano Sheva Tehoval and pianist Juliette Sabah offers a journey alongside sensitive and dreamy artists...
In the short and concise cycle of Engagements for Laughs, Francis Poulenc sets to music the eponymous collection by Louise de Vilmorin (1902-1969), in which he says he finds "a kind of sensitive impertinence, licentiousness, gluttony". But the fantasy of these poems is not devoid of a certain form of gravity, which Poulenc underlines in a delicate bittersweet atmosphere.
Seriousness becomes nostalgia, melancholy, even pain, from the second melody of Les Clairières dans le Ciel, which Lili Boulanger composed at only 20 years old on texts from the collection Tristesses by Francis Jammes (1868-1938). However, her music must be sung "with the feeling of evoking a past that has remained full of freshness", as she indicates on the score.
Sadness and beauty are also intertwined in Debussy, who draws on Paul Bourget, Théophile Gautier, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé an invitation to dream again and again of the beginnings of love...
