About this concert
Two concerts in France. At the Festival de la Voix in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, north of Paris, the choir joined the Chœur régional Vittoria d’Île-de-France for Alain Huteau’s Deux Poèmes with the soprano Sabine Kovacshazy. The next day, at UNESCO in Paris, it performed Aghani bel Arabi.
Programme
- Work
- Alain Huteau, Deux Poèmes
- Work
- Aghani bel Arabi selections
- Soloists and artists
- Sabine Kovacshazy, soprano
About the music
Alain Huteau, Deux Poèmes
- Settings from the Song of Songs by the French composer and percussionist Alain Huteau.
- Written for choir, soprano, cello, piano and both classical and oriental percussion, blending classical and traditional sounds with room for instrumental improvisation.
- Heard in Egypt at the end of 2010 with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and an Arabic percussion ensemble under Michel Piquemal.
Source (opens in a new tab) Sayed Darwish (1892–1923)
- Born in Alexandria in 1892, he died there in 1923, aged 31, and is called the father of Egyptian popular music.
- In barely a decade he wrote some 260 songs and 26 operettas.
- He set “Biladi, Biladi, Biladi”, now Egypt’s national anthem; his songs include “Salma Ya Salama”, “Ahu Da Illi Sar” and “El Helwa Di”.
Source (opens in a new tab) Photographs
Photography: Miriam Benyamein
