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Mélodie, Thy Name is Delos

Poldowski: Art Songs
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ForumOpera has a great new review for Angelique Zuluaga’s Poldowski Art Songs!

“After having given Nadia Boulanger an infinitely well-deserved homage, the American label is further pursuing the defense and illustration of the French mélodie with another unjustly neglected female composer: Poldowski, alias Irène Régine Wieniawska, AKA Lady Dean Paul (1879-1932). … here we indeed find some beautiful music. We can rank the sublime “Narcisse”, with string quartet, as an authentic masterpiece: infinitely more adventurous than any of the other compositions collected on this disc. Also, with its post-Debussian harmonies, it absolutely deserves a place in the repertory of French works for soprano voice and quartet, alongside Maurice Delage’s Hindu Poems or Ravel’s Three Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé. “Sérénade,” with its unexpected accompaniment, sets a poem full of naiads and holly-oaks by a certain Adolphe Retté. We will also treasure the piquant notes of “Mandoline”, where Poldowski achieves a place next to the greatest (let us point out in passing the admirable playing of pianist Gwendolyn Mok). … The diaphanous voice of Angelique Zuluaga effortlessly takes on the virtuosity required by the young Debussy’s “Pierrot”.”

Laurent Bury, ForumOpera (translation by Dennis Adams and Lindsay Koob)

Original French review on www.forumopera.com

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Posted by Lindsay Koob on
 September 19, 2017
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Tags : Alexander String Quartet, Angelique Zuluaga, Dennis Adams, ForumOpera, Gwendolyn Mok, Laurent Bury, Lindsay Koob, Poldowski, review
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