La Symphonie de Poche

Déborah Nemtanu, viola and vocals
LA SYMPHONIE DE POCHE
Nicolas Simon, direction
Robin Melchior & Lucas Henri, arrangements

Sarasate and Ravel are Basque. Ravel and Gershwin admired each other and met. Gershwin and Bartók just missed each other in New York. If the former was born there, the latter died. Lucas Henri is fascinated by American music in all its forms, by its history and by the music of Maurice Ravel. 
All these artists share a history with this ocean that links old and new continents. They all converse, singing their culture, in their bare voices or through the violin.
They weave their tunes, patching them together like the original rhapsode, the one who sews ôdes together (from the Greek rhaptein: to tie or adjust by sewing / ôdê: song).

CHABRIER
España

Béla BARTÓK
Rhapsodie pour violon n°1  — 1928-1929

George GERSHWIN
Un américain à paris

Maurice RAVEL
Blues (2ème mouvement de la sonate pour violon et piano) —1923

Lucas HENRI
Un bougnat sur broadway (Rhapsodie sur des thèmes de Gershwin) — 2019 

Pablo de SARASATE
Les airs bohémiens, op. 20 — 1878