Cyrille Dubois, the singer on this album, was named Revelation Lyric Artist of the Year at the 22nd Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2015.
Performer Biography
Michaël Ertzscheid, the pianist, is also a chamber musician and improviser who has taught piano at the CRR in Boulogne-Billancourt for over 15 years and piano pedagogy at the CNSM in Paris since 2019.
Compositional Technique
Kurt Weill and George Gershwin were known for incorporating seemingly irreconcilable elements into their music, creating unique and recognizable styles.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album's program brings together Kurt Weill and George Gershwin, two composers who shared a desire to reinvent musical theatre and blur the lines between serious and popular music.
Interpretation
The arrangements for this album were custom-made to suit the singer Cyrille Dubois and the musicians of Ensemble ArteCombo, ranging from intimate duets to symphonic sounds.
Performer Biography
ArteCombo, the wind quintet, was founded in 2007 with the aim of fusing and combining different arts in its projects, and won 2nd prize at the 'Henri Tomasi' International Wind Quintet Competition.
Instruments
The recording features a wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon) and piano, chosen due to Weill and Gershwin's notable use of wind instruments in their works.
