January 29, 2025 • Nantes, La Folle Journée (Salle Arpeggione)
May 4, 2025 • Tokyo, The Crazy Day (Tokyo International Forum)
To celebrate Maurice Ravel's birthday, Les Apaches present "Au fou!", a scandalous concert. It is the Ravel of the Apaches, innovative and audacious, that we will celebrate. The one who, with his Apache friends, participated in the revolutions of their time and did not hesitate to provoke scandal, take a stand, and elicit surprise and incomprehension from the public and the establishment with impertinence and provocation, but always with elegance and a boisterous gaiety.
PROGRAM
Maurice Ravel Alborada del Gracioso excerpt from Miroirs (1906)
for instrumental ensemble - Orchestration by Anthony Girard
Maurice Ravel Histoires naturelles (Le paon, Le martin-pêcheur, La pintade) (1906)
for mezzo-soprano and instrumental ensemble - Orchestration by Anthony Girard
Maurice Ravel Oiseaux tristes from Miroirs (1906)
for instrumental ensemble - Orchestration by Anthony Girard
Maurice Ravel Aoua ! extrait des Chansons madécasses (1925)
pour voix et ensemble - Orchestration d’ Anthony Girard
DISTRIBUTION
The Apaches! (17 solo musicians)
Julien Masmondet , director and presenter
Éléonore Pancrazi, mezzo-soprano