Playlist Ensemble Perspectives

• Anonymous:
• 1Anonymous: Joshua (Arranged for Choir)01:58
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695):
• 2Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Dido's Lament (Arranged for Choir)04:01
• Paul Simon (b. 1941):
• 3Simon: Mrs Robinson (Arranged for Choir)03:52
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924):
• 4Fauré: L'Horizon chimérique, Op. 18: III. Diane, Séléné (Arranged for Choir)02:04
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897):
• 5Brahms: 14 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 34: In Stiller Nacht02:47
• Anonymous:
• 6Anonymous: Dúlamán (Arranged for Choir)01:55
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912):
• 7Coleridge-Taylor: By the Lone Sea Shore03:21
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958):
• 8Williams: Whither Must I Wander (Arranged for Choir)04:08
• Anonymous:
• 9Anonymous: Oh, You Wide Steppe (Arranged for Choir)03:25
• Alexander Levine (b. 1955):
• 10Levine: Sicut Servus04:55
• Paul Simon:
• 11Simon: 50 Ways to Leave your Lover (Arranged for Choir)03:40
• James Taylor (b. 1948) & Don Grolnick (1947 - 1996):
• 12TaylorGrolnick: That Lonesome Road (Arranged for Choir)02:43
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937):
• 13Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges, M. 71: Il est bon, l’enfant, il est sage (Arranged for Choir)02:45
• Anonymous:
• 14Anonymous: Frère Jacques (Arranged for Choir)06:51
• Tom Waits (b. 1949) & Kathleen Brennan (b. 1955):
• 15WaitsBrennan: Alice (Arranged for Choir)04:11
• Total Runtime52:36

Info for Playlist

Ensemble Perspectives, an a cappella vocal quintet founded and directed by Geoffroy Heurard, creates programmes that blend the mainstream classical repertory with lesser-known composers and folk and pop songs. These pieces are sung in transcriptions ‘tailor-made’ for Perspectives, which works with world-renowned arrangers and composers of all aesthetic persuasions. The group’s new album, entitled Playlist, allows today’s ears to grasp the timeless threads that link Purcell to Brahms, a traditional song to an American song crooned by entire generations.

A playful and inspired journey through the music of Purcell (Dido’s Lament), Brahms, Ravel and Fauré, traditional songs such as Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and Frère Jacques, and songs Paul Simon (Mrs. Robinson and 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover) and Tom Waits (Alice).

Ensemble Perspectives

Perspectives
was born with this aim: to concieve concerts in a different way, to bring together different influences. Like a sundial which shadows are moving throughout the day, we see the concert like a building lit differently depending on the hours of the day or the place we look at it, and which shows each time a different perspective.

With each listening, record or concert, we want to go beyond time and space, put various influences into perspective and allow different styles to meet.

The artistic notion of perspective, which emerged during the Renaissance and insists on respecting the right proportions in construction, directions and lines, are just as essential in music. In this same period, the painting, such as Giotto’s, plays with colors, tones, nuances.

Perspective: a modern notion, a reflect of this alliance between the past and the present world.

Perspective: an architectural notion, a way to create a sound, not only by superposing different voices, but also by looking for a specific mblend, a perfect merge between tones on which one can build, resonate and vibrate.

Perspectives: five voices serving one instrument, one we try to polish like a stringed-instrument maker with his violin, to shape using the infinite scope of colors that the human voice possesses. Our voice is not only an instrument but also the unique tool through which we can express our diversity.

Perspectives, a word which expresses this desire of diversity, through using the same professionalism when singing a sacred opus from the Renaissance, a song, a modern creation or a jazz masterpiece, all kinds of musical styles which we have grown up with and which make us what we are.

We are happy to see that our approach is positively perceived by the public, glad to be taken in this musical journey. For us, it is not only a challenge but also a great satisfaction.

When we sing with Perspectives, we want to transmit our passion for this a cappella art while preciously conserving this ability to be enchanted, using original musical orientations.

Perspectives is composed of five singers (soprano, alto, tenor, baryton, bass-baryton) who can sing as a trio, a quatuor or a quintet, different configurations which indefinitely strengthens their affinities.

All having classical backgrounds (CNSM, CNR, Maîtrise de Radio France, CMBV…), the members of Perspectives met while they were singing in different ensembles with which they sang in some of the greatest french and international festivals.

Under the direction of Geoffroy Heurard, they decide in 2012 to create their own ensemble with the desire to explore the diversity of the a cappella repertoire, from Clement Janequin to György Ligeti, and from Duke Ellington to the Beatles.

Convinced that bringing together classical music and modern songs can only enrich their concerts, they offer eclectic programmes.

Booklet for Playlist