Discography
Solo projects
With “Sparklight”, Célia records her first concerto album with the Orchestre National Avignon-Provence and conductor Debora Waldman. Released on 27 April 2024 by NoMasMusic, the album highlights the friendship and musical complicity between Marie Jaëll and Franz Liszt. The album was chosen by France Musique and Le Monde.
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On her third solo album for the Présence Compositrices label, Célia explores the Dantesque cycle by French composer Marie Jaëll. For a video of the album, click here:
- interview
- “Dans les flammes”, excerpt from Ce qu’on entend dans l’enfer
- “Voix célestes”, excerpt from Ce qu’on entend dans le paradis
“Metamorphosis” is Célia’s second solo CD, on which she explores the resonances between Ravel’s Miroirs, Glass’s Metamorphosis and Camille Pépin’s Number 1. To be released in May 2021 by NoMad Music! The album has won rave reviews from the press: 5 Classica stars, 4 Diapasons, favourite of Renaud Capuçon on RTL, contemporary album of the week on France Musique…
American Touches
First solo CD of Célia Oneto Bensaid – 2018 – Soupir Editions. Dedicated to the American repertoire (Gershwin, Bernstein) – orchestral transcriptions of Célia
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Chamber music recordings
“First Grand Prix de Rome for composition in 1923, Jeanne Leleu was waiting for an accolade that other countries, instead of ours, would have already achieved” (Le Monde, 30 April 1947).
A child prodigy and piano virtuoso, Jeanne Leleu premiered Ravel’s Ma mère l’Oye at the age of eleven. A brilliant composer, she was responsible for many masterpieces, from melodies to chamber music, from ballet to symphonic works. Performed notably at the Paris Opera and by the greatest orchestras of her time, she was unanimously acclaimed by her peers and by critics. This first volume, devoted to her early works, offers a chance to rediscover this major figure of the twentieth century.
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The CD received 5 stars from Classica magazine.
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 from 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. The disc received 5 Classica stars and 5 Diapason.
Check out the clips linked to this album:
- Teaser Marguerite Canal
- Teaser Grazyna Bacewicz
- Teaser Dora Pejacevic
- Teaser Henriëtte Bosmans
Marie-Laure Garnier, Célia Oneto Bensaid and the Hanson Quartet have devised a programme based on the theme of nostalgic love. Based on Ernest Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Chausson’s Poème l’amour et la mer, arranged for voice, string quartet and piano, they draw out the thread of passion, both joyful and melancholy, in Gabriel Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson and Charlotte Sohy’s Les Chants nostalgiques, recorded for the first time with this ensemble. They have given their name to this new b-records album, which is characterised by symbolism, grace and emotion. The record, released in January 2023, is France Musique’s choice.
“Mme Strohl is a brilliant composer who excels above all in the musical adaptation of the most beautiful poems”. (La Nation, 26 February 1903). Rita Strohl is an atypical figure in the history of music: attracted as much by the Wagnerian universe as by symbolism, she composed chamber music as well as great symphonic or operatic frescoes. This double disc, featuring exceptional artists, is the first volume of a three-part monographic project. It is devoted to her melodies, most of which have never been recorded before. Alongside actress Olivia Dalric, Célia records her previously unreleased melodrama “Quand la flûte de Pan”. Released in October 2023, the album was chosen by France Musique, Choc Classica, 5 Diapasons, and TTTT by Télérama.
Marie-Laure Garnier and Célia Oneto Bensaid have been forming a powerful live duo for several years now, and are now recording their first album for NoMadMusic. An ingenious blend of works by Olivier Messiaen, Francis Poulenc and Negro spirituals, this album sings of the sacred and of hope in celebration of a mixed society, rich in its multiple cultures.
5 stars Classica, Disque Choix de France Musique, TTT in Télérama…
Release date: March 2022
With La Boîte à Pépites, a collective of musicians is rehabilitating forgotten works by women composers!
Charlotte Sohy has given life to thirty-five opuses for all musical formations, fifteen of which, as yet unreleased, are included in this boxed set. The La Boîte à Pépites label stems from the eponymous YouTube channel and the Festival Un temps pour Elles. Following in the footsteps of these platforms, this album is the first volume in a collection designed to highlight the work of female composers. Célia is lucky enough to have recorded the world premieres of her sonata op.6 for piano, her chants de la Lande with Marie-Laure Garnier, her piece ‘Octobre’ with Héloïse Luzzati, and her piano trio op.24 with Nikola Nikolov and Xavier Phillips.
5 stars Classica, Diapason “Découverte”, TTT in Télérama, Choix de France Musique …
Released in April 2022.
Célia is taking part in cellist Olivia Gay’s “Whisper me a tree” project, which explores the close links between nature and music. This project is the subject of a partnership with the Office National des Forêts.
The “Origine[s]” artistic project gives pride of place to popular works created in connection with the origin of their composers or a particular region… Alongside cellist Olivia Gay, Célia has recorded Schumann’s 5 pieces in the popular key and Nadia Boulanger’s Danse espagnole.
Le Promenoir des amants
Throughout the year, Royaumont Abbey, in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay, welcomes young duos who, alongside undisputed masters of the lied and the melody (Véronique Gens, Stéphane Degout etc.), forge their musical complicity. Thanks to this fruitful alliance between two friendly institutions, there are some wonderful combinations between music and the visual arts. In inaugurating this new collection, B Records invites you to capture the friendship between minds, geniuses and the arts, with a first disc that will take you from Schumann to Ravel, from the most languorous German Romanticism to the most piquant French poetry.
Watch the teaser. Out in September 2018.
Chamber music
Camille Pépin’s first monographic CD – 2019 – NoMadMusic. Choc Classica, FFF de Télérama, Joker de Crescendo Magazine, Supersonic de Pizzicato. With Léo Margue (conductor), Ensemble Polygones, Fiona McGown (mezzo-sporano), Raphaëlle Moreau (violin), Léa Hennino (viola), Annaëlle Touret (harp), Thibault Lepri (percussion).
Disc Books
Leipzig, 1825. A crystalline tune fills the great hall of the Wieck house. Who could be playing this tune at such an early hour? It’s Miss Clara, a little five-year-old girl, sitting in front of the grand piano. She has stacked two large cushions on the stool so that she is level with the keyboard.
For the first time, the Composers series pays tribute to a woman composer. A poetic, sensitive, romantic and musical biography. We discover the child prodigy, the concert performer who toured Europe with her father, the lover and then wife of Robert, the composer and teacher… Clara Schumann’s work was long forgotten in favour of her husband’s, and has only been rediscovered in recent years.
Elsa Lepoivre ‘ of the Comédie-Française, masterfully lends her voice to tell the story of this great artist, to her most beautiful pieces, played for the occasion by Célia Oneto Bensaid at the piano.
Listen to the CD included in the book or online on the major streaming platforms. This book is in partnership with France Musique.