Josephine STEPHENSON (1990)
Louise-Zoé GOUIRAND GENTIL (1861 - 1947)
Clemence de GRANVAL (1828-1907)
Grace WILLIAMS (1906-1977)
Lili BOULANGER (1893 – 1918)
Edith LEJET (1941)
Hedwige CHRETIEN (1859-1944)
Edith CANAT DE CHIZY (1950)
Rosy WERTHEIM (1888–1949)
Clemence de GRANDVAL (1828-1907)
Hedwige CHRETIEN (1859-1944)
Pauline VIARDOT (1821-1910)
Dawn
Night of stars
Melancholic Waltz
Songs of Sleep
Reflections
Of light and burning skies
Reverie of grandmothers
Litany
Three Songs
Villanelle
For those who love
Roussignolet
From dusk till dawn
"The light and the fiery skies of Baudelaire's verse, borrowed from the eponymous play by Edith Lejet, flare up at the dawn of night as well as at its end, thus designating this moment of change that poets and composers delight in: homage to the elderly at the twilight of their existence in Rêveries d'aïeules by Hedwige Chrétien, passage of the living towards death in the Litanie by Edith Canat de Chizy, but also awakening to love, like an iridescent dawn full of promise, in Awakening Galatea by Kati Agocs, tinged with light-toned suns in Pour ceux qui aime by Hedwige Chrétien. These half-tone lights awaken the senses and adorn themselves with the attractions of seduction, when they are associated with moiré water and its reflections, in Rosy Wertheim in particular.
In the heart of the night
The night, at the heart of these plays of light, is sometimes dark and nightmarish, consuming the poet of Songs of Sleep by Grace Williams, sometimes the place of a dream floating in an almost hypnotic indolence, in Reflets by Lili Boulanger. It is also pure, and its darkness allows the sparkling stars to stand out, luminous (Nuit d'étoiles by Gourand Gentil, À une étoile by Ferrari).
To the sound of birds
Birds, harbingers of the night (Roussignolet by Pauline Viardot) as well as of the day, accompany these luminous crossings, these moments of change where day and night mingle, these instants where the human being lets himself be touched and joined in what is most intimate to him, of which the birds are the voice.