Human Nature

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Youthful adoration, fear and terror, pastoral sensuality and ritual are the common threads in Ravel's Chansons Madécasses and Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps. What are we capable of as humans and how far can our desires or ambitions take us? Ravel reflects on racism, slavery and sensuality in his Chansons Madécasses and Stravinsky depicts a pagan ritual in which a virgin, guarded by wise elders, dances herself to death to assuage anger and sacrifice herself for the God of Spring.

South African Traditional - Umhome for voice
Wendy Kimani, vocals

Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937) Chansons madécasses for soprano, piano, flute and cello (1925/26)
Nikki Treurniet, soprano
Marianna Shirinyan, piano
Juliette Hurel, flute
Maja Bogdanovic, cello

Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) Le sacre du printemps, transcription for two pianos op.15a (arr. Stravinsky) (1911/12)
Nino Gvetadze, piano
Marianna Shirinyan, piano

Tickets: € 38,50

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• Marianna Shirinyan | piano
• Maja Bogdanovic | cello
• Nino Gvetadze | piano
• Juliette Hurel | fluit, flute
• Nikki Treurniet | zang, Vocals
• Wendy Kimani | zang