Christine et Gaëlle Fonlupt - Piano & Poèmes

Icônes Féminines: piano and poetry give a contemporary voice to twenty-two legendary women. The Icônes féminines were born from the desire to bring music and poetry together around twenty-two legendary female figures. Drawing on piano pieces by Bonis, Bizet, Chaminade, Poulenc, Debussy, Granados and Mompou, twenty-two poems have been composed for Salomé, Ophelia, Desdemona, Viviane, Ondine, the girl with the flaxen hair…

These icons, often frozen by painting, literature or the gaze of men, are approached here as living presences. The dialogue between the piano and the poetic voice seeks, behind the myths, what remains of a universal female condition: desire, entrapment, loss, waiting, self-effacement, 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 force.

CAST

Christine Fonlupt, piano

Gaëlle Fonlupt, poems

PROGRAMME

Book release and record release

Piano pieces by Georges Bizet, Mel Bonis, Cécile Chaminade, Claude Debussy, Eric Lebrun, Frédéric Mompou, Francis Poulenc

Poems by Gaëlle Fonlupt