"Persian songs" in Fribourg
Adrienne Soós, Ivo Haag and Robert Koller will perform the song cycle "Chansons persanes" in the version for two pianos and baritone in the Salle Equilibre.
Constantin Regamey, born in Kiev in 1907, wrote the Chansons persanes for baritone and chamber orchestra based on texts by Omar Khayyám in Warsaw. After the closure of the university there, where he had taught Sanskrit, he joined the resistance in 1940. In 1944, he managed to escape from German deportation to Switzerland, where he soon made a career as a linguist and music journalist. He died in Lausanne on December 27, 1982. (Source: MGG).
The concert under the motto " L'Orient : une fascination de longue durée " will feature Regamey's Chansons persanes Robert Schumanns Pictures from the East op. 66 for piano four hands and the 4th Symphony by Johannes Brahms in the version for two pianos from 1887.
