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Café des Chansons feat. Charlotte Haesen

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917278026

Catalog number: CC 72780
Releasedate: 27-09-18

- First disc by Café des Chansons, voice plus string quartet
- The repertoire is the wealthy one by post-war France
- The chansons tell a range of stories of melancholy and humour, as well as intense and inconsolable sorrow

Charlotte Haesen, born in Amsterdam in 1987 and raised in the French-speaking part of Belgium, studied jazz singing at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. On a sunny Saturday afternoon, she sang French chansons at Amsterdam’s Noordermarkt, where she was discovered by viola player Odile Torenbeek.

Odile and Charlotte decided to put together a chanson programme anchored in a string quartet ensemble. Leading arrangers then ‘arrayed’ the chansons around Charlotte’s own, particular sound. The next step was the founding of Café des Chansons: Charlotte
Haesen plus four musicians from the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

They perform gems of the repertoire, including the great French classics by artists such as Barbara, Gainsbourg and Piaf.

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