Arts-Scène Diffusion

Juliette Hurel

FLUTE

Compositrices à l'aube du XXème siècle

Compositrices à l'aube du XXème siècle

Alpha, 2020

Juliette Hurel and Hélène Couvert, who have long enjoyed a close rapport on the concert platform and on disc, here celebrate five French women composers at the turn of the twentieth century. Countess Clémence de Grandval was the composer of some sixty songs, of which Saint-Saëns said: ‘They would certainly be famous if their composer did not have what many people regard as the irremediable defect of being a woman.’
Augusta Holmès earned the admiration of Liszt, Wagner and Saint-Saëns. To mark the Universal Exhibition of 1889, she composed a monumental work for more than a thousand musicians. During her studies at the Conservatoire, Mélanie Bonis fell madly in love with a singer, but had to marry a rich industrialist. She later returned to composition and used the pseudonym Mel Bonis, leaving her gender in doubt. Cécile Chaminade displayed extraordinary gifts at a very early age. Bizet called her ‘My little Mozart’. Lili Boulanger received her first music lessons from her sister, the famous teacher Nadia. In 1913, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to receive the Prix de Rome. The word ‘compositrice’ was born!



 


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Jacques Bonnaure, Classica, Mars 2020

Musicalement impeccable, ce remarquable récital, (...) découvre utilement un pan méconnu de l'histoire et contribue à réparer une injustice. 

Jérôme Bastianelli, Diapason, 2020

(…) Au plaisir de la découvert s’ajoute le charme d’une interprétation peaufinée, qui jongle continuellement avec la ligne mélodique. Les couleurs variées et soyeuses de la flûte de Juliette Hurel s’apparient à merveille au piano élancé d’Hélène Couvert, à la richesse de ses nuances et à la chaleur de sa sonorité. Un superbe panorama de la flûte au féminin. 

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This week, Juliette Hurel & Isabelle Moretti record a duo for Harmonia Mundi. Scheduled for release in May…

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This week, Juliette Hurel & Isabelle Moretti record a duo for Harmonia Mundi. Scheduled for release in May 2026.

The flute and the harp, the very first instruments of our Humanity, with their spellbinding sonorities. Juliette Hurel & Isabelle Moretti, two emblematic figures of their instruments on the international music scene and long-time accomplices, have chosen to take you on a journey through their preferred repertoire, French music of the 20th century. Following in the footsteps of such composers as Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy (including a previously unpublished transcription of the Suite Bergamasque), this is an enchanted voyage, full of color, silence, delicacy, smiles and lightness. Other little-played composers (whom Juliette and Isabelle want to bring to light!) will enhance this journey: Clémence de Grandval, Eugène Bozza and naval officer Jean Cras. 

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