Angélique Kidjo & Yo-Yo Ma

«Sarabande Africaine»

05.12.2023 19:30,

Grand Auditorium

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Angélique Kidjo vocals
Yo-Yo Ma cello
David Donatien percussion
Thierry Vaton piano

Georg Friedrich Händel: Saraband (Suite für Cembalo HWV 437) (arr. Mike Block)
Bella Bellow: « Blewu»
Angélique Kidjo: «Kelele» (arr. Mike Block)
Angélique Kidjo: «Agolo» (arr. Mike Block)
Philip Glass: Ifè. Three Yorùbá Songs: II. Yemandja (arr. Michael Riesman)
George Gershwin: «Summertime» (Porgy and Bess) (arr. Angélique Kidjo, Jean Hebrail, Mike Block)
Traditional: «Nobody knows» (arr. Harry T. Burleigh)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Lamentations (Black/Folk Song Suite)
Antonín Dvořák: Goin’ Home (d'après la Symphonie «Du Nouveau Monde»)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sarabande (Cellosuite N° 3 BWV 1009)
Malavoi: «Ti Citron»
Bella Bellow: «Zelie»
Charles Baudelaire: «L’Horloge»
Maurice Ravel: Lonlon (d'après le Boléro)
Ángel Cabral: «La Foule» (arr. Angélique Kidjo, Jean Hebrail, Mike Block)
Johann Sebastian Bach: «Aisha» (d'après le Largo du Concerto pour clavier BWV 1056) (arr. Mike Block)
Angélique Kidjo, Jean Hebrail: «Afirika» (arr. Mike Block)
Dorothy Masuka: « Pata Pata» (arr. Mike Block)

Angélique Kidjo and Yo-Yo Ma are two musical personalities who could not be more different in their culture and musical «home territories». Both of them, however, routinely cross genre boundaries in their musical practice. Together, they have developed a programme which takes the baroque dance of the «saraband» as its point of departure, using it as a vehicle to travel through time and space. The Iberian and Arabic roots of the saraband will play a role here, as will the fact that the animist religions of the Congo revere a spirit by the name of «Zarabanda».