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L’Invitation au voyage

Chœur de chambre de l’Orchestre de Paris - Chœur de chambre Figure humaine - Lionel Sow - Denis Rouger - Katharina Schlenker - ANNULE
Vocal Concert
Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique
Duration: about 1h30

Program

Mélodies et lieder de Lili et Nadia Boulanger, Peter Cornelius, Henri Duparc, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Fanny Hänsel, Charles Gounod, Clara Schumann, Hugo Wolf
Georges Bizet
Adieu de l'hôtesse arabe
Lili Boulanger
Hymne au Soleil - Reflets
Nadia Boulanger
Soir d'hiver
Yves Castagnet
L'invitation au voyage
Claude Debussy
Beau Soir
Romance
Henri Duparc
Chanson triste
L'invitation au voyage
La vie antérieure
Gabriel Fauré
Au bord de l'eau
Tristesse
Chanson du pêcheur
Les berceaux
Prison
Charles Gounod
Mignon
Fanny Hensel
Im Herbste
Augusta Holmès
La belle Madeleine
Camille Saint-Saëns
Soirée en mer
Clara Schumann
ich hab' in deinem Auge
Hugo Wolf
Verborgenheit

Distribution

Choeur de chambre de l'Orchestre de Paris
Choeur de chambre Figure humaine
Lionel Sow, conducting
Denis Rouger, conducting
Katharina Schlenker, piano

Baudelaire’s famous invocation, ‘L’Invitation au voyage’, is the theme for this programme of transcriptions of melodies and Lieder for choir accompanied by piano.

We know that romanticism—with Schubert, Brahms, Robert and Clara Schumann, up to Hugo Wolf—owes to Lied culture the blending of music and poetry that transfigures a popular element into highest art. But the same applies in French melody, which, with figures such as Gounod, Duparc, Fauré and Debussy, created a constellation of extraordinary subtlety, quite literally renewing the perception of the poetic heritage. The ‘lyrical me’ of the voice, which the piano accompanies as a character in its own right, do more than elevate the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Hugo, and so many others: they profoundly reinvent the meaning, bringing forth hidden virtualities. This almost magical operation is further enhanced by the transcription, which transposes the eternal appeal of melody and Lied to the scale of a choir, with its rich sound, uniform yet contrasted sections, and changing spatiality.

Karina-Canellakis

Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique

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Getting here

Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B 

Address

221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris