Repertoires
A CAPELLA (6 singers)
The usual song recital of the Corou de Berra, the one who forged his reputation and always assures it its success.
A walk in the Alps of the South, between Piedmont, Provence and Country of Nice. In bare voices. The Southern Alps are the melting pot where come to merge strong, rooted, alive cultures. Lived for the ancient time, these mountains which come "to have a bath of foot in the sea" are a place of passage and permanent exchange, a land of high civilization. The polyphonic song is one of the wealth of this proud, current and authentic patrimony. Corou de Berra invites in a conducted tour of this region. Presentation of a directory in perpetual evolution, as wants it an alive tradition. Music never congealed, interpreted with all the required liveliness, by singers in full ownership of their culture and their art.
CALENA 6 singers
Profane Christmas and sacred music of the Country of Nice. Leaning on a very strong tradition, Corou selected an anthology of the most striking pages of this directory. Two additional subjects are approached : Christmas of Présepi Nissart and extracts of the sacred chants of Saint-Etienne of Tinée. Recorded for the first time, this forgotten music saw revised thanks to the work of Michel Bianco and his friends. It forms here the counterpoint on which the poetic melodies of Christmas in vernacular language prosper which the County of Nice created, adopted either tranformées on the roaming sources of close Piedmont, Ligurie, or Provence, itself sensitive to french influence. Pastre dei mountagno, I' anouciacioun, Tres rei campagno so result from Christmas of Our Lady of the Doms in Avignon, Christmas of the presepi of Nice, Jan Antounin and Nouvé de la Coulougneta appears in the anthology published by Delrieu, Nouvé dai ciripicieu, "recycling" of the paure farewell music Carneval, in the collection published in 1911 by Fanny Guyon
MIEDJOU (4 or 6 singers + 4 musicians)
Corou de Berra joined to instrumentalists jazz. Eric Sepé, guitars and Marc Peillon in the bass. Michel Bianco, alpine hurdy-gurdy, mandolin and Clovis Dehenin, percussions add a touch of colour to this orchestrina. "Corou de Berra proved that the song polyphonic, even if it draws its roots in centuries of history, reinvents nevertheless the tradition, confronts it with the world, modulates it, transforms it to give to the art a new opening, a new sense." "The step of the Corou de Berra, created fifteen years ago looks like that of Corsica of A Filetta: it maintains the local patrimony by decorating it with contemporary creations. Rich in its past, polyphonic songs try today to break labels and to give the full measure of its melodious possibilities." Corou de Berra, not moderate voices associated to an alpine hurdy-gurdy, a mandolin, a guitar, an accordion. Move. Sprinkle some percussions. So forms the Orchestra with Vocal cords. Which are also ropes of evasions, emotions.
TARTANE (6 singers)
Corou of Berra invite in a navigation at sight between different traditions of traditional polyphonies. Weave links, build bridges between people and cultures, cultivate the authenticity and the links, avoided the stumbling block of interbreedings empty of sense. Throw the ink of the bitter words.
TARTAN presents of the 16th century in our days, a very wide range of songs dedicated to the sea, resulting from Provence, from Ligurie, from Corsica and from Sardinia: song of procession of St Pierre, boss of the fishermen - epic song of the 19th century, telling the wreck of Sirio, with its immigrants' load - songs of holidays, dances of edge - songs and poetries of nowadays...
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