Ensemble Contraste
CHAMBER MUSICCLASSIC / ROMANTIC PROGRAMS
- Best Offenbach
- Schubert in love
- Viennese Serenade
- Après un rêve
- Mozart's Requiem
- Schubert - chamber music and lieder
- The Music Lesson - Mozart
- French Impressions
- Schubert - Lieder with instrument obbligato
- A prayer
- Tribute to Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
- Summer nights
- Gabriel Fauré's Requiem
- Mozart - 100% Quintets
- Tous à l'Opéra
- Les Mélodies de l'Amour
« CROSSOVER » PROGRAMS
The Nights of a Damsel
In 1963, Colette Renard composed this irresistibly poetic and bawdy song: "Les Nuits d'une Demoiselle", an iconoclastic diary of the nocturnal life of a woman in tune with her century and her claimed independence.
With this adventurous spirit, the Ensemble Contraste invites the talented and truculent mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot to embody the nocturnal chronicles that the poetesses and poets of Paris from the Belle Époque to the post-war period imagined in their timeless songs.
Whether they are adorned with happy or disappointed loves, grandiloquent romanticism or daily routine, "Les Nuits d'une Demoiselle" will be an opportunity to reconcile our learned composers Poulenc, Satie, Lili Boulanger ... and our unforgettable troubadours Montand, Gainsbourg, Barbara, Ferré ...
All this in an intimate instrumental setting combining viola, flute, piano and double bass to accompany the singular Lucile Richardot!
Musical repertoire
POULENC
The Queen of Hearts
SATIE
Gymnopedie (instrumental)
MESSAGER
I have two lovers
Lili BOULANGER
Le retour d'ulysse
MILHAUD
Le bœuf sur le toit (instrumental)
VIAN
Je suis snob
BOURVIL
Irish ballad
GAINSBOURG
La javanaise (bis)
Le poinçonneur des Lilas
PIAF
Les amants d'un jour
BREL
Au suivant
GRECO
I hate Sundays
FERRÉ
Jolie môme
MONTANDS
Incurably romantic
BARBARA
My most beautiful love story
Colette RENARD
The Nights of a Lady
Cast:
Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano
Ensemble Contraste
Arnaud Thorette, alto
Mathilde Calderini, flute
Alix Merckx, double bass
Johan Farjot, piano, arrangements
Videos
Je hais les dimanches
Folders
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Niort, France
Boulogne/Mer, France
Saint-Maurice, France
Villecerf, France
Saint-Emilion, France