Destinées

The female composers to whom Baroque violinist Sophie de Bardonnèche pays tribute had very different fates: while the name Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) remains etched in memory, who knows Mlle Duval (born around 1718), the second woman whose work was performed at the Paris Opera and who earned the nickname "la Légende" in her time? Her opera-ballet Les Génies testifies to her great mastery. Then there were Anne-Madeleine Guesdon de Presles and Élisabeth-Louise Pellecier, composers who were married to composers - the latter signed her works with her husband's name, Papavoine... Others came more easily into the spotlight because they were aristocrats, such as Mlle de Menetou (1679-1745). No fewer than ten female composers come back to life in this program with sonatas, overtures and dances, conceived by Sophie de Bardonnèche, one of the founders of Le Consort. On her first solo album she is accompanied by her partners Lucile Boulanger and Justin Taylor.