Festival Opening Concert
International Repertoire Opera Arias & Choruses
(Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Donizetti,
Offenbach, Sartori, Gershwin...)
Soloists of the French Armed Forces Choir :
Michel Courché (tenor)
Nicolas Bercet (baritone)
Baptiste Jore (bass)
Mattias Lecomte (pianist)
String trio :
Violin : Agnès Fosse - Viola : Sylvie Boucher - Cello : Eve Grougnet
"Claye Vocale" Choir
Choirmaster : Marie-Hélène Caspar
Nathalie Patard (soprano)
Set in the superbly lighted chancel of our church, this concert delivered moments of both wild, rambling fun - with Offenbach in particular - and reverent listening with the Hebrew Slaves’ chorus from Verdi’s Nabucco or the touching highlights from Rossini’s Moses.
All artists on schedule - the soloists of the French Armed Forces Choir, our invited string trio, our guest pianist and the Claye Vocale Choir - succeeded in turn in delighting their audience with emotion - light, relaxed or grave.
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For full details on this concert, please visit our French blog or click HERE
and for more photos click HERE
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January 31th, 2009
The Subboteya Ensemble
Russian, Ukrainian and Tsigane Singing
The Subboteya Ensemble offered an astounding performance ; with permanent good-humoured professionalism, their singers, dancers and musicians – all trained in the highly-acknowledged Russian academies – performed traditional songs relying on the flawless accompaniment of the ensemble’s two young virtuoso players: an exceptional balalaika specialist – a young woman, too - and a prize-winning accordionist acclaimed throughout Russia.
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For full details on this concert, please visit our French blog or click HERE
and for more photos click HERE
For see the site of "Subboteya" St.Petersburg click HERE
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February 1st, 2009
Los Calchakis
Music from South America / Ariel Ramirez’ Misa criolla
Listen to an extract of the "Misa criolla" :
(Click the white triangle)
Created by Hector Miranda
Winners of the 1970 "Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Charles Cros"
'Loisirs Jeunes’ prize for their ‘Indian Flute on Record’ LP
awarded the 1971
Holders of several gold records for top sales
in France, Spain and Mexico
Performers of Mikis Theodorakis’s music for the original soundtrack
of Costa Gavras’s 1972 feature film State of Siege
starring Yves Montand - itself awarded the ‘Prix Louis Delluc’
Performers with Atahualpa Yupanqui
on his Belgian TV special ‘Soy Libre’
Prized at the Montreux Festival in Switzerland
Invited to major French classical music festivals
3,000 concerts in the most prestigious venues throughout the world :
Paris’s Olympia, Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes,
Geneva’s Victoria Hall, Washington’s Lisner Auditorium,
Copenhagen’s Tivoli, Madrid’s Monumental
and hundreds of others, including the Frankfort opera house…
such are Los Calchakis!
The Misa criolla was performed by Los Calchakis with support from
the "Claye Vocale" Choir, the "Chant'Annet" Choir
and guest choristers from the "La Gondoire" Choir.
Conductor : Marie-Hélène Caspar
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For full details on this concert, please visit our French blog or click HERE
and for more photos click HERE
For see the site of "Los Calchakis click HERE
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March 29th, 2009
Final Concert
"Choeurs en fête"
"Epilogi Choir" Limassol (Cyprus)
Choirs and vocal ensembles
from all over Seine-et-Marne (our local department)
"Ensemble Vox Intermusica" (Fontainebleau)
Conductor : Henri SATTLER
"Petit Choeur du Grand Morin" (Villiers-sur-Morin)
Conductor : Anne DUMONTIER
For full details on this concert,
please visit our French blog
or click HERE
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Translations in English by "Latéral Traductions" Chelles (77500)
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