Frédéric Chaslin
Le Bestiaire de Robert Desnos
Nine animal melodies (2020)
for high voice
Duration: 20'
Solos:
high voice
Le Bestiaire de Robert Desnos
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Frédéric Chaslin
Hohe Stimme (Das Bestarium von Robert Desnos)
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UES100026-611
Type: Solostimme(n)
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Work introduction
I always was a fan reader of Robert Desnos. Surrealistic, absurd, provocative, he was typical of the France in between the two world wars. He died of typhus in the camp of Theresienstadt at the very end of the war, and left a hug amont of works. His Bestiaires (there are two of them, one with simple animals, the other one "complex animals", like the "Spider with moustache") are the best of the genre. I mixed poems from both bestiaires to get this 20 minutes cycle.