Natalie Dessay and Family

At the crossroads of nature, childhood and wonder, two nightingales meet, inspired by Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms, Alban Berg, Maurice Ravel and Olivier Messiaen. The singer Natalie Dessay, a legendary nightingale of the operatic stage, engages in dialogue with Johnny Rasse, the birdsong artist from the Baie de Somme, whose wild trills recreate the songs of finches, warblers, blackbirds and gulls.

This unique conversation between the human voice and the voice of nature was conceived and written by pianist Shani Diluka, who performs on stage alongside Neima and Laurent Naouri.

An original recital blending the repertoire of the French mélodie, nineteenth-century piano music, and the poetry of Alphonse de Lamartine, Paul Verlaine and Jacques Prévert.

PROGRAM

Lecture
Poème de Lamartine, lu par Natalie Dessay

Grieg – Pièces lyriques pour piano
Sondheim – Green Finch and Linnet Bird
Granados – La Maja y el Ruiseñor
Vivaldi – Il Gardellino
Kilar – Musique du film Le Roi et l’Oiseau
Prévert – Pour faire le portrait d’un oiseau
Brahms – Lerchengesang
Berg – Die Nachtigall
Ravel – Oiseaux tristes
Debussy – Clair de lune
Debussy – Jardins sous la pluie
Ravel – Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis
Delibes – Les trois oiseaux
Chausson – Le Colibri
Rimsky-Korsakov – Le Rossignol et la Rose
Saint-Saëns – Le Rossignol et la Rose de Parysatis

Over the Rainbow (J. Garland)
Blackbird (The Beatles)