Sandrine Piau; David Kadouch - Voyage intime

Sandrine Piau and the pianist David Kadouch have formed a new duo whose first concerts have been enthusiastically received. As is her wont, the French soprano enjoys intermingling languages and the worlds of different composers and poets around a theme; here Schubert, Liszt, Wolf and Clara Schumann rub shoulders with Lili Boulanger, Duparc and Debussy. Sandrine Piau explains: 'The promise of new horizons, the joy of new encounters: the journey in all its forms was the common thread of this recital for David and me. From the quest for a longed-for yet inaccessible elsewhere to the ultimate transition to death, it maps out our aspirations, our obstacles and the �joyous getaways� offered to us by the whirlwind of life. She quotes a beautiful poem often attributed to Pablo Neruda: 'He dies slowly who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not know how to find grace in his own eyes.'