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Like the Occitan troubadours and the trouvères of northern France, the Minnesänger celebrated courtly love and gave medieval German its letters of nobility. These "singers of love" — Minne is the old German word for love — thus perpetuated a poetic and musical tradition that had begun nearly two centuries earlier in Occitania. The Minnesänger, generally of noble and knightly blood, gradually emancipated themselves from their French models and developed their own styles and forms during the 13th century.

Raphaëlle Moreau and Célia Oneto Bensaid take a tour of Europe through four female composers who were celebrated during their lifetime but have since fallen into guilty oblivion. Four different languages, three sonatas at the turn of the 1920s, two miniatures from the immediate post-war period: a rich sound photograph that finally gives voice to the genius of four singular destinies, the Frenchwoman Marguerite Canal, the Croatian Dora Pejačević, the Dutchwoman Henriëtte Bosmans and the Polish Grażyna Bacewicz.

Célia Oneto Bensaid’s third album on the NoMadMusic label features the early concertos of two composers and pianists, accompanied by the Orchestre national d’Avignon-Provence under the baton of Débora Waldman. The album aims to bring musical heritage into the spotlight by showcasing the mutual esteem and incredible virtuosity of the two composers.