Pianist, disciple of Béla Bartok, communist militant, assistant to Hanns Eisler, teacher at the Bauhaus, producer at the ORTF, conductor of choirs popular, publisher, resistance fighter, musicologist specializing in musical folklore… Paul Arma is one of those men who seem to have lived ten lives at once, from these musicians constantly on the move, better able to create and invest in their society than to value the work thus accomplished. Centered on the years of resistance and militant commitment of the composer, Chants du silence seeks to rediscover, as a first world, a part of this unjustly forgotten work.

Millennial symbol of new energy, of the rebirth of the sun on Earth, Spring, from Greco-Roman culture to our moderns, is one of the most prolific inspirations. In choral music too, where polyphonies, mass oppositions… allow so many dedicated figuralisms. Faithful to their work of promoting original French musical heritage, Fiat Cantus has selected from this corpus sixteen unpublished works by four composers, representative of the evolution of the madrigal during the first half of the 20th century.