Duo Contraste - Clairi?res dans le Ciel (Les Musiciens et la Grande Guerre)

During the Great War it was the art song that best expressed the deepest, highly diverse feelings of the soldiers on the front lines as well as composers away from the battlefield: eternal ideals laden with nostalgia, tenderness and poetry (Lili Boulanger, Ropartz) as well as reactions born of the conflict, in turn sarcastic (Vellones), dramatic or embued with feelings for the loved one with Jacques de la Presle. This programme offers as yet unrecorded pieces (Migot, de la Presle), rarely�heard works (Vellones) as well as the complete song cycles Odelettes and Clairi�res dans le ciel.