Voyage intime: Sandrine Piau & David Kadouch
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InVoyageIntime,sopranoSandrinePiau&pianistDavidKadouchexplorewhatitfeelsliketobealiveThisisthedebutrecordingfromthenewlycreatedduoofrenownedsopranoSandrinePiauandpianistDavidKadouch.SandrinePiaunotablyenjoysinterminglinglanguagesandtheworldsofdifferentcomposersandpoetsaroundathemeandsoonthisdisc,Schubert,Liszt,WolfandClaraSchumannrubshoulderswithLiliBoulanger,DuparcandDebussy.“Thepromiseofnewhorizons,thejoyofnewencounters:thejourneyinallitsformswasthecommonthreadofthisrecitalforbothofus.Fromthequestforalonged-for,yetinaccessibleelsewheretotheultimatetransitiontodeath,itmapsoutouraspirations,ourobstaclesandthe“joyousgetaways”offeredtousbythewhirlwindoflife.Whenweshapearecitaltheprinciplesarealwaysthesame:it’samatterofputtingtogethersmallstories–afterallasongisastory–toproduceanarrativeonalargerscale.Weappropriatethetalentsofcomposersandpoetsandthenarrangetheelementsinordertosaysomethingdistinctive–it’sinthewayit’sallputtogether.Itevenbecomesamatteroftellingapersonalstory.ThisVoyageintime,thisintimatejourney,definitelytakessomeofourobsessionsasitsstartingpoint.Weassociatepersonalemotionswitheachofthestories.Sadfeelings,feelingsofdoubt,butalso,mostimportantlyandinthemostpositivesense,whatitfeelsliketobealive.That’swherememorybecomessomethingpoetic...somethingnostalgicandmagical.”-SandrinePiauan