The label is part of a larger organization called Palazzetto Bru Zane–Centre de Musique Romantique Française, which researches, records, publishes, and promotes French music from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth. The venture is funded by the heirs of the pharmaceutical pioneer Camille Bru, who invented the effervescent tablet, and has its headquarters, curiously, in the Casino Zane, in Venice. The enterprise has an obsessive, devotional aspect. In an essay on Saint-Saëns’s “Phryné,” a diaphanous comedy about an ancient-Greek courtesan, Alexandre Dratwicki, Bru Zane’s artistic director, speaks of “removing the veils of oblivion”; that phrase could be attached to most of the label’s projects, which lay siege to the concept of a fixed repertory of masterpieces.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter