S I R B A O C T E T Russian, klezmer & gipsy music SIRBA OCTET SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Special guest ALEXEI BIRIOUKOV Realised 2018 è Sirba Orchestra! is a meeting The creation of this new program between the Sirba Octet, an with symphony orchestra has been orchestra symphonic and a one of the major events of the SI balalaikist. An anthology of the season 2015 of the set. An most beautiful themes of gypsy adventure musical and human that cabaret and klezmer music! has again reunited the Sirba Octet and the Pau Orchestra / Pays de RBA IN THE HEART OF RUSSIAN Béarn for a second order around MELODIES, KLEZMER & music from Eastern Europe. A TZIGANES meeting virtuoso who under the baton of the Conductor Fayçal OR Sirba Orchestra! A new album for Karoui,faithful accomplice of Sirba Sirba Octet who blows a hope Octet, saw the day in its walls at the happy and forward looking. This Palais Beaumont of Pau for a series anthology brings together known of concerts in June 2015. The CHE tunes and essential Russian who concert was recorded and mingle the abundant mix of music broadcast live by Radio Classique traditional Romanian, Hungarian, in June 2015 during the concert Moldovan and Gypsy. Musical series at the Beaumont Palace in STR nuggets are revisited (Black Eyes, Pau. The lily of the valley, Kalinka, a song of the Warsaw Ghetto ...) by AN ALBUM AT DEUTSCHE the Sirba Octet, orchestra and GRAMMOPHON A balalaika answer each other in turn or play together in a festive The Sirba Orchestra! program atmosphere, melancholy or recorded after a series of concerts passionate. at the philharmonic hall of Liège ! (Belgium) with the Philharmonic Sirba Orchestra! is a program Orchestra Royal de Liège jubilant that welcomes a balalaikist conducted by Christian Arming and his magic instrument of Russia and Nicolas Kedroff, balalaika. to sublimate some titles that The album was released by the are devoted to him. The balalaika is Deutsche label Grammophon in a traditional russian string May 2018 and the exit was followed instrument pursed. She was born by a promotional concert in June in the villages Russian and grew up 2018 at the Musical Seine of in the palaces of Tsars, instrument Boulogne-Billancourt. The Sirba of the poor and the prince, she is a Octet will make this program live reflection of the Russian soul, again with other symphonic in all its ardor and melancholy. formations in France and abroad. Sirba Orchestra! Window open on a traditional music, abounding, moving and festive that crosses all emotions, from cheerfulness to nostalgia, from love to Jewish humor! A journey of themes and variations from Moldova, Romania, Hungary or Russia which was entrusted to Cyril Lehn who signs the arrangements of this program. Sirba Orchestra ! Sirba Octet www.sirbaoctet.com PROGRAM THE MUSICIANS Traditionnel repertory Guest artist : SI Suite de Moldavie Alexei Birioukov balalaïka Cocher, ralentis tes chevaux The Sirba Octet RBA Tire l’aiguille, arrangements by Yann Ollivo Richard Schmoucler violin 1 Laurent Manaud Pallas violin 2 OR Fargess Mich Nicht David Gaillard viola Valenki Claude Giron cello CHE Ya Vstretil Vas Bernard Cazauran bass Moskovkaia Polka Philippe Berrod clarinet STR Tata Vine Pastele Iurie Morar cymbalum Les Deux guitares, Christophe Henry piano A arrangements by Yann Ollivo And Symphonic Orchestra Geyen Zey In Shvartse Reyn Hora Moldoveneasca ! Arrangements : Cyrille Lehn Azol Tanzmen / Arga Duration : 1h40 (Without intermission) Hora Flaicailor Broitele / A Viable Tsien Coragheasca Kalinka Katioucha / Otchi Tchornia Bis : Le Temps du muguet, arrangements by Yann Ollivo and Cyrille Lehn Hora de Bessarabie Moskovkaia Polka Sirba Orchestra ! Sirba Octet www.sirbaoctet.com NOMENCLATURE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OR STAFF 60 MUSICIANS Flexible staff 55 musicians CHE STRINGS — 12 violins 1 STR — 10 violins 2 — 6 violas — 6 cellos A — 4 bass WOODWINDS — 2 flutes (the 2nd plays piccollo) — 2 oboe (the 2nd plays English horn) — 2 clarinets (the 2nd plays bass clarinet) — 2 bassoons BRASS — 4 horns — 3 trumpets — 3 trombones — 1 tuba PERCUSSIONS — Cymbals — 2 percussions including a battery Sirba Orchestra ! Sirba Octet www.sirbaoctet.com When violinist Richard Schmoucler The Sirba Octet continued to work founded the Sirba Octet in 2003, with Isabelle Georges on Yiddish he created an entirely new sound. Rhapsody, a show based on With arrangers Cyrille Lehn and traditional Yiddish music but Yann Ollivo, five fellow musicians accented with elements of jazz, from the Orchestre de Paris, a salsa, musicals, rock and samba. pianist and a cimbalom player, he Commissioned by the Orchestre de BIO formed a unique ensemble with a Pau Pays de Béarn, conducted by fresh perspective on klezmer, Fayçal Karoui, Yiddish Rhapsody Yiddish and gypsy music. was unique in its staging of the octet alongside a 50-piece GRA orchestra and was therefore able to In collaboration with the Orchestre perform orchestral as well as de Paris, the Sirba Octet performed chamber music. The show became P H Un violon sur les toits de Paris, (A their third album with Naïve, and fiddler on the rooves of Paris), at was performed with the Orchestre the Théâtre Mogador, a concert Lamoureux at the Théâtre des which they developed into their Champs-Élysées, the Orchestre de first acoustic album, A Yiddish Trier in Germany, the Liège Royal Y Mame, released in 2005 under the Philharmonic, the Tonkustler label Ambroisie (Naïve). With Orchester at Festspielhaus and at Slavic and Yiddish nuances, this Musikverein in Vienna. anthology of Eastern European melodies is drawn from Their albums have received critical Schmoucler’s own memories of acclaim in the press, winning happy family gatherings. notably a ‘10 de Répertoire- Classica’ for Du Shtetl à New York, SIGNIFICANT ARTISTIC the European Association for PARTNERSHIPS Jewish Culture prize and a Choc de Classica for Tantz! The group was also the subject of a documentary In 2007, as part of the Festival by Alain Duault for France 3 d’Île-de-France, the Sirba Octet entitled A day with the Sirba Octet worked with Isabelle Georges, the and Isabelle Georges. In 2011 the multi-talented singer, dancer and Sirba Octet and Isabelle Georges actress known as a ‘triple threat’, to were selected by the Victoires de la produce Du Shtetl à New York. An Musique Classique to appear array of music from the shtetl and alongside the Orchestre des Pays standards from the golden age of de la Loire conducted by John American musical theatre, via jazz, Axelrod. ragtime and lullabies composed by second generation immigrants, the show charts the journey made by Appearing regularly at leading millions of Eastern Europeans festivals in France and abroad, the from their shtetls, or villages, to Sirba Octet have performed at New York, melting pot of musical many prestigious venues including influences from all over the world. the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, The show was inspired by Fabienne the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam Rousso-Lenoir’s documentary Du and Musikverein in Vienna with Shtetl à Broadway and celebrates longer runs at Théâtre Mogador, heredity and inheritance, an l’Européen, La Cigale et à l’Espace important foundation of the Pierre Cardin à Paris. In 2012, they Yiddish community. took part in the Festival Radio Classique at the Olympia with Isabelle Georges and, in 2013, they appeared at Musiques en fête aux Chorégies d’Orange which was broadcast live on France 3. Sirba Orchestra ! Sirba Octet www.sirbaoctet.com Thanks to their talented arranger A NEW ALBUM Cyrille Lehn, the Sirba Octet are AT THE DEUTSCHE constantly enriching their GRAMMOPHON LABEL! repertoire, adding pieces that range from the most famous to the lesser The Sirba Octet engages in a new known. Lehn worked with the collaboration for its new album group on a project for which they Sirba Orchestra! he signs at the BIO were joined for the first time by prestigious Deutsche Grammophon Catherine Lara. This new label. Sirba Orchestra! is a meeting adventure led to the album Au between Sirba Octet, a symphony cœur de l’âme Yiddish (The Spirit orchestra and one of the greatest GRA of the Yiddish), released on Sony in balalaika players, Nicolas Kedroff. November 2012. Captivated by An anthology of the most beautiful their world, Catherine Lara chose themes of gypsy cabaret and eight of her most acclaimed pieces klezmer music. P H to record with the Sirba Octet. In This program created in 2015 with April 2013, they performed the the Pau / Pays de Béarn Orchestra album live for two concerts at under the direction of Fayçal l’Alhambra in Paris. Karoui for a series of performances Y at the Palais Beaumont in Pau was The Sirba Octet releases his 5th broadcast live by Radio Classique. album Tantz! in 2015 at the label The Sirba Orchestra program! La Dolce Volta. The release of this recorded with the Royal new album is followed by a series Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège of five exceptional concerts at directed by Christian Arming and Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris. The Nicolas Kedroff at the balalaika album Tantz! is a musical virtuoso, was the subject of new expressive and dancing, carried by orchestrations and a contribution eight exceptional musicians with of five unreleased tracks for its dazzling performance. This real release on the Deutsche musical treasure drawn from the Grammophon label in May 2018. traditional repertoire leads the public at the mercy of the Doina, The release of the album was Hora, Sirba and other dances of followed by a concert in June 2018 klezmer and gypsy music from at the Musical Seine of Boulogne- Eastern Europe. Tantz! Gateway Billancourt. Sirba Orchestra! will between Romania, Moldavia, be hosted by orchestras in France Russia and Hungary, is seen as a and abroad in 2019.