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Youssoupha Gospel Symphonique Experience

Friday

07.07.2023

21:00 — Ella Fitzgerald Stage, Geneva

Free concert
Festival

Programme

Youssouphavoix

Youssoupha Gospel Symphonique Experience


Olivier Koundouno
Arranger, conductor and cello

Manu Sauvage
Piano

The music

"[A show] that combines my rap with gospel voices and symphonic musicians. The gospel for my roots and my light. Symphonic for grace and emotion. My rap for my struggle and strength. I have stories to tell you with poetry and humour. It will be beautiful, powerful, surprising and above all unique. Revisit differently, celebrate differently. Welcome to this Experience. This Gospel Symphonic Experience."

Youssoupha's CV speaks for itself: 6 albums, countless invitations by major artists from all walks of life, a career that has lasted for almost twenty years. But to leave it at that would be to miss the point: his writing gives the language an uncommon musicality. The mesh of sounds, the resonance of rhymes, alliterations and assonances, coupled with the meaning of his profound texts, form a unique language. Youssoupha is not one of those who, in recent years, have given rap music sounds, placements and themes that were previously unknown; he is one of those who have brought about these changes, because he is the culmination of a way of making rap music. So when the OSR plays alongside him, it is not a classical orchestra inviting a popular musician, but two classics meeting.

The artists

OSR Live

Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1 (S. 124)

Pablo Heras-Casado

conductor

Alexei Volodin

piano

Franz Liszt
Concerto for piano No. 1 in E-flat major S. 124

Recorded on 08 April 2025 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

Wolfgang A. Mozart - Gustav Mahler

Concerto for two pianos - Symphony No. 1

Daniel Harding

conductor

Martha Argerich

piano

Maria João Pires

piano

Recorded on 16 December 2021 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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