Secular music

C. VERCHER

Fable by Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) in which a tin can falls in love with a lobster, finding in its way many similarities ... On a surrealistic poem, here is music that is connected to the text humorous athmosphere.

C. VERCHER

Extract from Romances without words. The voices dialogue to express the text in turn. A song about voice, music and poetry. I guess through a whisper The subtle outline of ancient voices

C. VERCHER

Poem by Paul Verlaine from Les Fêtes Galantes (1869): Calm in the half day What tall branches do. Let’s penetrate our love From this deep silence.

C. VERCHER

The sky is standing above the roof So blue, so calm ... On a poem written by Paul Verlaine while he was in jail in Belgium. A simple music, harmonically rich, giving a role to each voices.

C. VERCHER

This song has been recorded in the CD "PAYSAGES BELGES" More about Claude Vercher

J. BERTHIER

This work (one of the composer's rare secular pieces) is one of the last compositions by Jacques Berthier. It was written for an amateur Parisian choir on a poem by Patrice de la Tour du Pin, a friend of the composer. Jacques Berthier wanted...

C. VERCHER

C. ZUMEL

The food and drink songs are still as relevant today! Following, among others, Leonard Bernstein who sang cooking recipes, here is that of Paella de vermicelli, a traditional Spanish dish. César Zumel, composer and choirmaster, was born in 1970....

C. VERCHER

A composition in which voices interact with each other on a text by a Catalan poet who died too early from tuberculosis (he was just thirty years old). Joan Salvat Papasseit collaborated in the anarchist press and is considered as an...

C. VERCHER

 A 4-voice round, which served for the 2018 Festi'choeur days, in memory of the end of the First World War.• Intended to be sung by a large number of participants (flashmob), it is simple to learn. Step by step, breaks all boundaries ......

D. COSAERT

Composed for the choral workshop Festi'chœur 2018 in Bailleul (France) and Kemmel (Belgium), this work for 4 mixed voices and piano (required) is in memory of the First World War. It says peace, war, cold and hope. The piano is a real player...

D. COSAERT

A variation between jazz and contemporary music, on the first lines of the finale of Beethoven's 9th symphony. Hymnus refers to the European Anthem but only keeps a short extract (Freude schöner Götterfunken ...) and uses the onomatopoeias of...