Juliette

Secular cantatas of love and tragedy by a Neapolitan precursor of Pergolesi, in world premiere recordings.

For her first recital, Juliette Journaux evokes the figure of the Wanderer: a wayfarer, a traveller, a man who walks alone, without apparent purpose. He confronts a Nature that is beyond him and his deepest thoughts. The wanderer's drifting is also inseparable from the dream, the acceptance of a dilated time. Musically, one immediately thinks of the worlds of Schubert, Mahler and Wagner… Another aspect of this project is Juliette Journaux's passion for transcription. In tackling the difficult task of transcribing vocal or orchestral works for solo piano, she draws on her knowledge of the orchestra and the operatic voice thanks to her three masters degrees in piano, vocal accompaniment and voice direction from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris…

Un artiste de rue gelé devenu tueur en série échappe au FBI et s’enfuit à Paris – où il tue à nouveau, attirant les touristes dans son piège. L’agente spéciale du FBI Juliette Hart est envoyée à travers le monde pour le traquer. L’esprit brillant de Juliette et son éducation européenne font d’elle l’agent idéal pour cette affaire, mais son retour en Europe fait resurgir son sombre passé, et ce tueur est plus diabolique qu’on ne l’aurait imaginé. Juliette peut-elle l’arrêter avant qu’il ne tue à nouveau ? Ou se laissera-t-elle abattre par un tueur – et par son propre passé tourmenté ? …

Juliette Nourredine, known to her fans simply as Juliette, is an acclaimed singer/songwriter from France whose albums regularly chart within the national Top Ten. Born on September 25, 1962, in Paris, France, the chanteuse began her performance career in Toulouse, where as a teenager she performed the songs of Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf on piano. In time she began writing songs of her own and singing. One of her early performances, a theater show from 1986, was released independently on cassette as Juliette (1987).

The Quatuor Voce presents Poétiques de l’instant, a long-term project and a diptych of recordings that aim to combine two of the key works in the repertory of any string quartet – the masterpieces of Debussy and Ravel – with other pieces of music and new compositions. This first instalment focuses on Debussy’s Quartet and the Quatuor Voce has enlisted a young composer, Yves Balmer, for the works that revolve around it: he has arranged the Proses lyriques song cycle and has also composed a new piece, Fragments soulevés par le vent. To record this programme, the quartet has chosen to perform alongside three exceptional artists, the soprano Jodie Devos, the flautist Juliette Hurel and the harpist Emmanuel Ceysson.

Le dernier album de l'auteure-compositrice-interprète, tantôt lyrique, tantôt gouailleuse, vient de sortir.