Mélodies inédites

With this CD the Academy offers listeners a chance to discover a genuine original document by Jules Verne, a work that no-one has hitherto been able to appreciate in this form. This is the world premiere recording of the songs of Jules Verne and his friend Aristide Hignard, both of them natives of Nantes. Everyone can become acquainted with the spirit of these verses and the vigour of their musical seting, which mere perusal of scores tucked away in libraries could not fully reveal to us before now. It is also an opportunity for us to plunge anew into this French repertoire of the 1820s, often little-known and very rarely recorded. Finally, let us not forget that, more even than their status as a priceless treasure in the history of the song with piano, these works remain above all a moving testimony to the friendship of two young men on whom posterity has not chosen to lavish equal degrees of glory.

#	Nom	Durée	Version
1	Tout simplement	02:15
2	Au printemps	03:07
3	Notre étoile	02:26
4	Berceuse	03:17
5	Les deux troupeaux	03:46
6	La douce attente	02:09
7	Daphné	03:27
8	Les gabiers	04:01
9	Souvenirs d'Ecosse	03:49
10	Chanson scandinave	03:14
11	Chanson turque	01:40
12	La Tankadère	02:11
13	En avant les Zouaves!	03:51