A recital for children (but not exclusively) is proposed by the baritone Damien Pass, who will take on the role of Daedalus in the big family opera project in the Great Hall: The Monster in the Labyrinth. (The older members of the audience will find plenty of delights in this programme largely devoted to French melody, with Poulenc’s Bestiare and Robert Desnos’ L’Alligator, L’Araignée à moustaches and Poisson sans souci, set to music by Barraud, Wiener and Kosma. Recess will draw to an appropriate close with Erik Satie, whose light melodic fantasies remind us how much he, like the rest of this wave of composers between the two wars, remained sensitive to the poetry of childhood.

Damien Pass baritone

Alphonse Cemin piano

Poulenc (1899-1963)

Le bestiaire


Poèmes de Robert Desnos
 (1900-1945)
Barraud : Le blaireau
               
L'Alligator


Wiener (1894-1964)
Le Léopard
              
Le dromadaire


Kosma (1905-1969)
L'oiseau du Colorado
         
Le poison sans souci
            
L’araignée aux moustaches




Satie (1866-1925)
Trois mélodies de 1916 :
  
La statue de bronze
 
Daphénéo
     
Le chapelier