Métamorphose

Description

Lavilliers and large orchestras have regularly crossed paths. We remember his tribute to Léo Ferré at the Théâtre du Chatelet in 2006 with the Pasdeloup symphony orchestra... Exactly one year ago, he gave a unique concert at Maison de la Radio with the Radio France orchestra. The experience made the singer want to pick up where that evening left off by recording part of his repertoire with a large classical orchestra. After "Sous un soleil énorme", conceived in the midst of a pandemic and at a distance from his musicians, the singer wanted to reconnect with the spirit of "old-school" recordings, finding himself right in the middle of his musicians for the recording of an entire album. This without nostalgia, rather with the spirit of a bridge-builder that characterizes him, as if he were also telling us a bit of the history of recorded music through this gesture. Accompanied by composer and arranger Cyrille Aufort, a symphony orchestra of over fifty musicians, and four road companions (Xavier Tribolet on keyboards and arranger of 3 songs, Antoine Reininger on bass, Michaël Lapie on drums, and Vincent Faucher on guitar), Bernard Lavilliers invites us to witness the metamorphosis of 13 of his great songs and unveils an unreleased track...