NATURAL LEGENDS - Laurent Naouri and Jocelyn Freeman

About this event

SongEasel's 2022 series, Icons & Legends, celebrated a notorious dinner meeting in Paris in May 1922 hosted by Violet and Sydney Schiff after the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's Le Renard, including Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, and Sergei Diaghilev. This performance by legendary bass-baritone Laurent Naouri and acclaimed pianist and curator Jocelyn Freeman, introduced by Anna Ovsyanikova, pays homage to the meeting of these creative legends. With insightful commentaries from the performers, the recital presents the world premiere of four songs by Mathieu Crickboom (1871-1947) with a mid-recital introduction from the world's leading Crickboom expert alongside two portrayals of the Don Quixote legend by Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) and Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Poulenc's (1899-1963) illustration of various painters of the time, Le Travail Du Peintre, opens the event.

This stream is available to watch until December 9, 2022.

Programme

• 1. Concert – approx. 60 min programme

Repertoire

1. Francis Poulenc: Le Travail Du Peintre FP 161 (Éluard, 1956)

~ Introduction to Mathieu Crickboom by Anna Ovsyanikova ~

2. Mathieu Crickboom: Dix mélodies Op. 12, selection (1908-11)

3. Jacques Ibert: Chanson du départ (Ronsard), i. from Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte (1933)

4. Maurice Ravel: Chanson romanesque, i. from Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (Morand, 1933)

5. Jacques Ibert: Chanson à Dulcinée (Arnoux), ii. from Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte

6. Maurice Ravel: Chanson épique, ii. from Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

7. Jacques Ibert: Chanson du Duc (Arnoux) iii. from Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte

8. Maurice Ravel: Chanson à boire, iii. from Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

9. Jacques Ibert: Chanson de la mort (Arnoux) iv. from Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte

Encore – Francis Poulenc: Hôtel (Apollinaire, 1940) from Banalités FP 107

This event was recorded live at Hearn Recital Hall, Blackheath Halls, London, UK.

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