Children’s games

Musicians are lucky enough to play every day, to play as children play, to play where they dreamt of playing when they were children. It’s only a short step from there to thinking that being a musician is child’s play, a step we won’t take!

As a child, she fell in love with her cello, while he was quick to pick up his accordion. She grew up listening to classical music, while he wore out his shoes on the “Bals musette” dancefloor. She cherishes her Armenian origins, he proudly claims his Auvergne roots. Life has its share of wonderful surprises, and it was these two who met.

Astrig and Félicien could never have crossed paths, but fate decided otherwise, and that’s quite a stroke of luck… They recognised each other straight away: two children’s souls brimming with a passion for acting, the stage, music and life in general. So for years they’ve been promising each other that one day they’d come up with a concert programme as a duo. That day has come, and “Children’s Games” is born!

This programme tells the story of Astrig and Félicien’s respective childhoods. With the help of the music of Georges Bizet, they take us back to some unforgettable games: spinning tops, horses and other dolls enter the dance. Musette waltzes by Tony Murena and tangos by Richard Galliano clash with an essential cello piece by David Popper. Tales and legends are evoked in works by Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré. A taste for travel is expressed in George Gershwin‘s Three Preludes. Armenia comes to the fore with a traditional lullaby, itself taken up by Jacques Brel as a master of French song, before Charles Aznavour builds a bridge between these two lands of the heart.

This programme and this duet are a hymn to childhood, to memories, to insouciance, to that mad desire to travel, to share, to live. They will transport you through space and time, to the four corners of the world, to your most distant memories, to a future that will be beautiful if it remains imbued with that indispensable child’s soul…