Les Traversées > July 2nd

DE CHASSY / SCHUBERT / STRAUSS
Silences Trio
Guillaume de Chassy, piano – conductor / Thomas Savy, clarinets / Arnault Cuisinier, double bass
Irina de Baghy, vocals

Night and the dreams which inhabit the night, and especially the night when we are not asleep – these are favourite subjects of musicians and poets. Guillaume de Chassy is both of these. As a musician, he weaves his melodies into velvet and invites Schubert into his dreams. As a poet, he is a melancholic wordsmith and chooses Guillaume Apollinaire, William Shakespeare, David Linx… The hope of love, the upheaval of absence, introspection. The Silences trio and the voice of soprano Irina Baghy share, in a similar mood, the written part and the improvised part of a musical stroll under the moonlight.

RAMEAU / FALCONIERI / HANDEL / JANSCHA
Supersonus
Marco Ambrosini, nyckelharpa – conductor
Anna-Maria Hefele, Overtone singing
Anna-Lisa Eller, kannel / Wolf Janscha, mouth harp
Eva-Maria Rusche, harpsichord

Music helps us to travel in space and time. This is the promise made by the Supersonus quintet, composed of instruments which have come from afar. The nickelharpa, a Swedish bowed viol, the kannel, an Estonian zither, the baroque harpsichord, the mouth harp and the Mongolian overtone voice, which brings mysterious traditional sounds to old music from Hildegarde von Bingen, Frescobaldi, Biber, Rameau…. Grandiose landscapes appear, Shaman dance, horsemen cross deserts, we are transported elswhere, even though we are still in our seats.

Bring your own food to our picnic or just book one of our picnic baskets

Picnic baskets are prepared by Cuisinette, a Bourges caterer who works mostly with local products and, on every Les Traversées Saturday, offers a Berry Bowl: a mixed salad with cereals, vegetables, legumes and other local and/or organic produce, influenced by international tastes.

LOBO / PURCELL / TALLIS / ALLEGRI / TAVENER / HOLST…
Tenebrae Choir / Nigel Short, direction

The reputation of British Choirs is firmly established. This can be seen at first hand with the Tenebrae Choir, who will dazzle the Noirlac Abbey’s chapel with a programme with the theme of resurrection and hope. The great composers from the Renaissance, the Baroque period and from later generations have been invited, composers whose choral works have illuminated the most beautiful cathedrals, abbeys and royal and papal palaces. Glorifying God, they are inspired from traditional tunes, from orthodox mysticism and popular fervour. A hymn to heavenly beauty celebrated by a majestic artform.

For purity and precision of tone, and flawless intonation, Nigel Short’s chamber choir Tenebrae is pretty much unbeatable.
The Times

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