Under heavy Viennese skies or in Berlin smoky cabarets, Berg, Ullmann and Weill dive into the “soul of the Seine sewers in Paris” or into the very depths of Louise Labé’s enamoured soul. They “search for oblivion everywhere”… each of them pursuing the hoped-for Youkali in a dark period of history which is so close to our own.

This is how the soprano singer Margaux Poguet captures heat: she offers us a bundle of Lieder coming from the lushest post-Romantic forest, lit with a sparkle of raw expressionism and sulphurous realism.