Francisco Soriano, Natalia Labourdette - L' Andalousie au cœur: The Complete Spanish Songs of Pauline Viardot (2023) [24/96]

On the occasion of the bicentenary of Pauline Viardot's birth in 2021, pianist Francisco Soriano set himself the task of making known one of the most interesting parts of Viardot's work: her Spanish-inspired songs in various languages, many of them unpublished. He was helped by his fellow artists on this recording, soprano Natalia Labourdette and mezzo-soprano Helena Ressurreicao, as well as researchers Nicholas Zekulin and Andres Moreno Mengibar and musicologist Miguel Lopez Fernandez. This album represents the fruit of those labours.