12.11.25 / Concert Sweetest Choice – Light songs
Light Songs
An intimate, instrumental reinterpretation of carefully selected musical pieces chosen for their emotional intensity
Copyright photo : Audrey Ginestet
Sweetest Choice
Sweetest Choice is a duo founded in 2016 by Sébastien Cirotteau (trumpet) and Benjamin Glibert (twelve-string guitar).
Through original transcriptions, Sweetest Choice offers an instrumental and intimate reinterpretation of carefully chosen musical pieces, selected for their emotional intensity.
Their unusual instrumentation unfolds subtle shades of color, at the crossroads between instrumental folk and intimate chamber music.
The duo travels through the centuries, drawing from the repertoires of the Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, and even twentieth-century music.
After the album Trois oiseaux (2018, Mr Morezon), which journeys through the night with wordless songs, Sweetest Choice turned to piano music: Bach, Bartók, Schubert, Ravel, and even Ligeti.
Light Songs
Sweetest Choice offers an intimate, instrumental reinterpretation of carefully selected musical pieces chosen for their emotional intensity, with a special focus on music written by women. The duo travels through the centuries, drawing from the repertoires of the Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, and even 20th-century music; a four-voice madrigal by Maddalena Casulana sits alongside a hocket by Meredith Monk, a greeting song from Kayanza (Burundi) responds to a mystical chant by Hildegard of Bingen…
