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Youssoupha Gospel Symphonique Experience

Friday

07.07.2023

21:00 — Ella Fitzgerald Stage

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

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Maurice Ravel

Boléro

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 15 November 2017 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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Johannes Brahms

Symphony No.3 in F major op. 90

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 17 May 2018 at Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Cerrito 628

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