Dear Mademoiselle
The real gift of the recording are Nadia Boulanger’s Three pieces for cello and piano composed with an infinite delicacy in which we can sense all the love that this teacher – composer had for the great repertoire.
Dear Mademoiselle
Her album is perfect for initiating the newcomers to classical music and to seduce the connoisseurs and make them say “I didn’t know this, it’s realy good !
Tribute from a “Mademoiselle” to an other.
Mademoiselle Boulanger gift was to find the singularity in each person and to make this singulartiy to bloom. She encouraged Astor Piazzolla to works on his argentinian roots rather than try to sounds like europeans compositions that don’t suit him.
The cellist Astrig Siranossian celebrates Nadia Boulanger by playing her student’s works
I had to enter the universe of each composer. Those Nadia Boulanger’s students who find their own languages through her teaching.
Divines Artistes
Dear Mademoiselle – A tribute to Nadia Boulanger is a beautiful crossing of destinies. Astor Piazzolla, Igor Stravinsky, Nadia Boulanger, Elliott Carter, Philip Glass, Michel Legrand and Quincy Jones… This tribute to the great Nadia Boulanger seduces and enchants at the first listening … and remains, all the other times beautiful and rich.
Without Nadia Boulanger, american composers would have continued to mimic XIX’s century european music