Christine et Gaëlle Fonlupt : Piano & Poèmes

Presented by ARTEKA11 (PLATESV-D-2023-006822) Female Icons Piano and poetry give a contemporary voice to twenty-two legendary women The Female Icons were born from the desire to bring music and poetry into dialogue around twenty-two legendary female figures. Based on piano pieces by Bonis, Bizet, Chaminade, Poulenc, Debussy, Granados, Mompou, twenty-two poems were composed for Salome, Ophelia, Desdemona, Viviane, Ondine, the girl with the flaxen hair… These icons, often frozen by painting, literature, or the male gaze, are approached here as living presences. The dialogue between the piano and the poetic voice seeks, behind the myths, what endures of a universal feminine condition: desire, hold, loss, waiting, erasure, revolt, or metamorphosis. Each of these voices thus speaks from our present, not to illustrate the music, but to open with it a space where ancient legends regain an intimate and contemporary power. CAST Christine Fonlupt, piano Gaëlle Fonlupt, poems PROGRAM Record release and literary release Piano pieces by Georges Bizet, Mel Bonis, Cécile Chaminade, Claude Debussy, Eric Lebrun, Frédéric Mompou, Francis Poulenc Poems by Gaëlle Fonlupt