As part of the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Bertrand Chamayou is a familiar figure at the Festival de Montpellier. After Liszt’s Years of Pilgrimage and a complete Ravel cycle, he now offers us an extraordinary recital, anchored by Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words and Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy. Short pieces by the former and a single-movement monument by the latter are joined by a few knowing nods: other romances by Fauré and Clara Schumann, several pages of German Romanticism transcribed by the tireless Liszt, a parodic romance by Charles Ives, and even the Beatles lullaby Golden Slumbers, from the album Abbey Road, arranged here by Takemitsu. Crumb and Kurtág, poised between irony and deceptive simplicity, weave their way into the tightly knit fabric of this recital. PROGRAM FELIX MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words opus 19 nº 1 and nº 2, opus 38 nº 5 CHARLES IVES Song without (good) words FELIX MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words opus 53 nº 4 and nº 3, opus 30 nº 2, opus 38 nº 2 GABRIEL FAURÉ Song Without Words opus 17 nº 3 FELIX MENDELSSOHN / FRANZ LISZT Auf Flügeln des Gesanges opus 34 nº 2 FELIX MENDELSSOHN Song Without Words opus 67 nº 4 CLARA SCHUMANN Romance in A minor FELIX MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words opus 85 nº 2, opus 30 nº 6, opus 67 nº 5 and nº 2 ROBERT SCHUMANN / FRANZ LISZT Frühlingsnacht JOHN LENNON / PAUL MCCARTNEY / TORU TAKEMITSU Golden Slumbers ROBERT SCHUMANN / FRANZ LISZT Widmung GEORGE CRUMB Eine kleine Mitternachtsmusik GYÖRGY KURTÁG Scraps of a Colinda Melody – faintly recollected (homage to Farkas Ferenc 2), excerpt from Játékok FRANZ SCHUBERT Wanderer Fantasy Booking required
Event from the official Montpellier agenda; venue: Office de Tourisme Montpellier; address: Opéra Comédie, 34000, Montpellier.
Source: Agenda Montpellier