French composer Cécile Chaminade was born in Paris in 1857. None other than Georges Bizet, a friend of the Chaminade family, encouraged her to take music education. In 1871 she became a member of the Société National de Musique, a company of young French musicians who resisted German influences, in order to achieve, with contemporary means, a renaissance of French music. This year it is 50 years
… ago that she died in Monaco, and this may have been the reason for the Trio Chaminade to present a CD with both profane and religious works for female voices and harmonium. The program includes the Messe pour deux voix égales et harmonium. The Trio Cheminade combines these works with similar works by César Franck, including a transcription of the famous Panis angelicus, taken from the mass op.12. (HJ) _more
