Barbara, meet Brel !
Friday 19th May 2017 - Festival de la Voix (Châteauroux)
Barbara would be celebrating her 90th birthday in 2020, and the Ensemble Aedes has chosen to pay her homage in the form of an encounter between her music and Jacques Brel’s, inviting contemporary composers to rework some of the two artists’ greatest hits. The best of French chanson set by the best of a cappella choral composers. In Jean- Michel Fournereau’s moving staging, the Ensemble Aedes sings, dances and acts these songs of love and loss.
Jacques Brel, Le Gaz (arr. Manuel Peskine)
Barbara, Hop-là (arr. Julien Joubert)
Jacques Brel, L’amour est mort (arr. Fabien Touchard)
Barbara, Attendez que ma joie revienne (arr. Victor Jacob)
Jacques Brel, Voir un ami pleurer (arr. Philip Lawson)
Jacques Brel, L’air de la bêtise (arr. Victor Jacob)
Barbara, L’aigle noir (arr. Philip Lawson)
Jacques Brel, Ne me quitte pas (arr. Christophe Looten)
Barbara, Dis, quand reviendras-tu (arr Manuel Peskine)
Jacques Brel, La valse à mille temps (arr. Julien Joubert)
Barbara, La mort (arr. Manuel Peskine)
Jacques Brel, Le tango funèbre (arr. Manuel Peskine)
Barbara, Gauguin (arr. Aurélien Dumont)
Jacques Brel, La quête (arr. Fabien Touchard)
Ensemble Aedes
Mathieu Romano : conductor