The little Mermaid ? This is an Andersen tale, of which Agnès Desarthe gives us a new version here, for adults and children alike. An actor will show it to us, and music evoking the sea and the storm will illustrate it: Les Sirènes, La Nuit en mer and Shakespeare’s Songs borrowed in particular from The Tempest. Did you know that the unfortunate siren had to lose her voice and have her tongue cut off to enter the human world?

LILI BOULANGER
Les Sirènes
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Three Shakespeare Songs (extracts)
FRANK MARTIN
Five Songs of Ariel (extracts
HENK BADINGS
La Nuit en mer

AGNÈS DESARTHE freely adapted text from The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
RADIO FRANCE CHOIR
MATHIEU ROMANO conductor

This concert is broadcast live on France Musique.