Twenty songs from the French tradition

Danny Boy, Silverstrik and Home and the Range are written in English.

This collection focuses on traditional and historic songs, a selection that cannot claim to be exhaustive. Rather than presenting the French heritage in all its diversity, we chose to entrust the task to the great composer and arranger Bruno Fontaine.

While some are very familiar, others are much less so; the songs are unchanged. Yet they are integrated in musical universes that show them in a brand new light — sometimes close, sometimes offbeat — in relation to the standards for the genre.

Existing arrangements

• Five instruments (B-flat clarinet, viola, violin, cello and piano) and three voices, depending on the songs
• Reduction for piano/voice

Partners in this realisation are:

• National Education Ministry
• Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris
• Professional singers and musicians