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Ensemble Vocal OTrente presents its Liebeslieder concerts!
This little bird is the nightingale (Nachtigall), the bird that sings only at night, seeming to address the indifferent moon, companion to those whose lovesick hearts disturb their sleep. The Romantic era made it a symbol of the music of the heart, a melodic expansion of the soul carried along by the wave of passions. For the poet, the nightingale’s song is thus like the echo and expression of an inner voice, spreading its laments or desires. To close the season and celebrate the arrival of fine weather, the OTrente choir and its conductor Louis Gal invite you to savor these modulations in a program devoted almost entirely to the Liebeslieder, “love songs” by Johannes Brahms. Accompanied on piano by Joséphine Ambroselli and Rodolphe Lospied, we will perform the Liebeslieder-Walzer from opus 52 as well as selected Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer from opus 65. Composed between 1868 and 1874 to the rhythm of the waltz, they give a genuinely Viennese character to texts inspired by Polish, Russian, and Hungarian sources, translated into German by the poet Georg Friedrich Daumer. In a waltzing dialogue between piano and choir, Brahms, freely varying the rhythms of this dance, draws us into the refined and gallant atmosphere of Viennese salons, the main motifs of the idyll, with a delicate and very worldly sauciness. You will also hear the Vier Quartette from opus 92, centered on the theme of night and longing in love, as well as two a cappella pieces, Waldesnacht and Es geht ein Wehen, whose eroticism appears more explicitly: “The song has such dreadful, wild, dark tones that ardent desire has awakened.” This same desire sometimes turns into a gentle melancholy, whose expression you will appreciate in F. Rückert’s poem - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen - set to music by Gustav Mahler for solo voice with piano or orchestral accompaniment, and arranged for 16-part choir by Clytus Gottwald. But it returns, ardent and wild, in the dark forest of Robert Schumann’s Zigeunerleben (op.29 no.3), around the fire where bohemian women dance with their hair undone. June 12 at 8:45 p.m. at the Basilique Sainte Clotilde (Paris 7), June 14 at 4:00 p.m. at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (Paris 7) Choir: Ensemble Vocal OTrente Conductor: Louis Gal Piano: Joséphine Ambroselli, Rodolphe Lospied
Price: From 0 to 20 euros.
Source: paris.fr — photo: OTrente