“…pianist Lucy Mauro unveils eleven unpublished (eight songs and three pieces for piano) found in the papers of the pedagogue. … The whole is bathed in a climate willingly dark, even funereal – this even before the disappearance of Lili. It is to rock “the soul that suffers without anger” in Ecoutez la chanson bien douce, as in the first Piece for cello and piano (a reworking of an Improvisation played on the organ of the Madeleine by François-Henri Houbart at the end of the program). The song Ach die Augen winds, always more painful, around a memory (“I am lying on its bosom / the empty and unhappy soul”), while the piano of Vers la vie nouvelle (1915) gradually comes out of a “heavy atmosphere” of “discouragement”; for the knell of the introduction wills the “distant, clear and pure sounds”, of the ending, the image of a “man who walks confidently, tenderly and gravely” towards “the hope of a better life” (said Boulanger). All of this, the piano of Lucy Mauro translates perfectly.…” —François Laurent, Diapason Magazine (translation by Lucy Mauro)
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