Maurice Ravel - Les Chansons madecasses I. Nahandove II. Mefiez-vous des blancs III. Il est doux de se coucher Esther- Elisabeth Rispens - Soprano Nathalie Matthys - Piano Nikola Kyosev - Flute/ Piccolo Sebastian De Meester - Cello Miry Hall, Royal Conservatory of Ghent, Belgium 5, December, 2014 Music scene written by Claude Debussy to accompany the recitation of twelve poems by Pierre Louys. I - Chant Pastoral II - Les Comparaisons III - Les Contes IV - Chanson V - La Partie d'osselets VI - Bilitis VII - Le Tombeau sans nom VIII - Les Courtisanes egyptiennes IX - L'Eau pure du bassin X - La Danseuse aux crotales XI - Le Souvenir de Mnasidica XII - La Pluie au matin Narrator - Esther Rispens Flute I - Tineke Devoghel Flute II - Nikola Kyosev Harp I - Anne Zeuwts Harp II - Cecile-Marie Lissens Celeste - Annefleur Roels Miry Hall, Royal Conservatory of Ghent, Belgium 5, May, 2014 Bart Maris' Improvisation class performs music for two Indian silent movies at the Miry hall, Royal Conservatory of Gent, on 15 January, 2014. Jamaibabu (1931) - This comedy has a country bumpkin hero Gobardhan (Das) visiting his parents-in-law in Calcutta. Making a 'No Nuisance' sign for an address, he gets lost trying to find his friend Amal's (Baurah) room. His subsequent adventures take him to famous locations including Howrah Bridge, the Victoria Memorial and the Maidan. Gobardhan eventually finds his in-laws, feigns illness to prolong his stay, is beaten up when he tries to sneak into his wife's (Radharani) room and gets mistaken for a thief. Raja Harishchandra (1913) - Directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. First screened on April 21, 1913 this is India's first feature-length film. The complete film is no longer available and these are portions of the first and last reels of the original 3700 feet of film. CAST Mahabub Kahn - zang (lead) Wahid Kahn - harmonium-zang Sattar kahn - tabla-dohlak-castagnettes Jens Pfennig - piano Leire Ruiz Garcia - klarinet Sara Brito Brito - dwarsfluit Elke Durnez - hoorn Hadewych van den Ende - klarinet Mattias de Rijcke - gitaar Xiao Luo - klarinet Zhenzhen Xu - dwarsfluit Benjamin Bertrand - basclarinet Nikola Kyosev - picollofluit-dwarsfluit Valerie Trangez - fagot Bian Xiaoran - viool Wim Segers - percussie Peter Vandenberghe - laptop-synths/piano Bart Maris - trompet/composities/concept 4 x Horo was written by Kalin Yanchev based on Bulgarian folklore motives. This piece is characterized by its vivid and typical rhythms and intervals. Nikola Kyosev - flute Kalin Yanchev - guitar Velislav Godjunov - percussion and tapan (bass drum) Mind Cell was written and performed by Nikola Kyosev. You are listening
to the live premier performance, at the Plug Festival 2011. I would like to thank Alistair MacDonald, for his guidance and support during the making process of the piece, as well as Lyubomira Derelieva and Gareth Shaw, for agreeing to "lend" me their voices for the middle section. |