La Comédie Humaine : Chansons balzaciennes

Description

Les Lunaisiens and Arnaud Marzorati are the undisputed specialists in popular French songs from past centuries. Here, they tackle two immense monuments of the 19th century: the writer Honoré de Balzac and the chansonnier Pierre-Jean de Béranger, who, very famous at the time, brilliantly captured society in all its social diversity, from the poorest to the richest. Among more than five thousand characters described by Balzac throughout his approximately ninety works, Les Lunaisiens have chosen to set to music a selection of texts reflecting the themes that obsessed the writer: social ascent, the love of money, corruption, love, betrayal... With the collaboration of Lucile Richardot and Cyrille Dubois, Arnaud Marzorati and his ensemble passionately bring this eclectic crowd to life: "The Human Comedy was also invented through song," concludes Marzorati.