Trio Cenacle, Pitt Simon - Poesie chantee d'un visionnaire - Songs on Poems by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is known in Germany mainly only through the numerous settings of his poems by many important composers. The recording on DREYER GAIDO here pays tribute to the great French poet not only as a high quality provider of texts for masterful songs by Saint-Saens, Franck and others, but also as a politician and visionary of European unification.