Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, Frédéric Chaslin, Pierre Arditi - Rendez-vous (2022)

Voice, trumpet and piano – it’s most unusual to find these three together in a song cycle. The composer and pianist Frédéric Chaslin delivers here the first chamber work ever written for such a combination. Inspired by poems written by Jean Cocteau, Boris Vian and Alain Duault, he explores, in six original pieces, the various styles in which the trumpet enjoyed prominence in the twentieth century: jazz, ragtime, tango…

Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, soprano, and Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet, create an amazingly subtle balance as they convey the different moods of these miniatures, sometimes poetic, sometimes funny or lyrical. Each one is introduced by a very short story, written by Arièle Butaux, reflecting in prose the poem that follows. The text is read by the well-known French actor Pierre Arditi.

TRACKLIST

1. Pierre Arditi - Mains
2. Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann - Les mains tombées du nid
3. Pierre Arditi - Nuit
4. Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann - Beaux amants
5. Pierre Arditi - Drapé
6. Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann - Ce que l'on quitte
7. Pierre Arditi - Juin
8. Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann - Ballade pour les ours qui ne sont pas là
9. Pierre Arditi - Blanc
10. Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann - L'oubli
11. Pierre Arditi - Vert
12. Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann - J'suis snob