The Loves of Madame Tchabaï

In a story by the Turkish poet and writer Nazim Hikmet, a certain Doctor Littman sits staring at a heart in a jar. In doing so, he tries to imagine the amorous life of the heart's owner, Madame Tchabaï, and begins to hum a few love songs. Jean-Luc Fafchamps set this bizarre daydream to music and added his own favorite songs to it to create a cycle for mezzo-soprano, cello, and piano. These ingenious arrangements of well-known and lesser-known chansons are interspersed with gems from the 20th-century repertoire. Muziek van Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Leos Janacek, Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, Luciano Berio, George Crumb, Alain Bashung, Serge Gainsbourg... Aperitif after the concert Het Collectief Lore Binon, soprano Martijn Vink, cello Thomas Dieltjens, piano the collective | Het Collectief