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From Monteverdi to Brahms via French Baroque rarities: the Decca Gold (US) legacy of a complete musician, newly remastered an d i ssued complete for the first time, with fascinating liner notes by Nigel Simeone. Original Jackets, Limited Edition. Composer, teacher, organist, pianist, harpsichordist, choir trainer, conductor, musicologist: there seemed to be no end to th e t alents of Nadia Boulanger though she liked to insist that her gifts paled in comparison to her tragically short lived sister, Li li. Nadia compensated with ceaseless industry. By the time of her early twenties, having studied with Fauré and undertaken the famously rigorous Paris Conservatoire formation, she was already reviving Bach cantatas in concert. In thi s guise she came to the attention of the American heiress and assiduous sponsor of avant garde culture in Paris, the Princesse de Polignac, and with her support founded a vocal consort which made valuable and often reissued HMV recordings of Monteverdi a nd Brahms in the 1930s. Boulanger’s postwar recordings for American Decca, while also made in Paris, are much less widely known, having been issued o n B runswick LPs with limited availability outside the US and on Decca Gold in the US. Having returned to Paris after her wartime ex ile on the American east coast, she revived her consort for concerts at the Polignac salon, drawing together the most resilient of h er older colleagues, such as the tenor Hugues Cuénod , with younger vocal talents such as

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Format: CD
Artist: Nadia Boulanger
Release Date: 02 October 2020
Genre: Classical Music
Label: ELOQUENCE / D.G.
Distributor: Universal Music