This calm and fluid piece with a pleasant harmony is, at first sight, written in the spirit of the Ave Maria of a Franz Schubert or a Charles Gounod/Johann Sebastian Bach, to quote only the most famous versions of this prayer. Looking closer, we notice that in Caroline Charriere’s version, no word is repeated: to each syllable its music. The two highlights of the piece, on the other hand, are written in the melismatic style: in mulieribus (among women) extends over no less than seven measures, t...