From East to West

A unique encounter between two brilliant and generous musicians, between two friends, between two lovers of the stage: Christian-Pierre La Marca and Félicien Brut.

Mixing the accordion with the cello may seem surprising, but it only takes a few minutes to realize that these two have so much to say together…

From the baroque to the chanson, through the romantic repertoire or the national schools, the two musicians take us in a twirling spatial and temporal movement. The composers of Eastern Europe rub shoulders with those of the New World, the music of yesterday collides with that of today.

Jean-Philippe Rameau opens the ball before Béla Bartók waltzes alongside Tony Murena, Frédéric Chopin and Dimitri Chostakovitch greet George Gershwin and Astor Piazzolla, David Popper or Carl Maria von Weber give the line to Ariel Ramirez or Richard Galliano.

Thus, under the fingers of Christian-Pierre and Félicien, centuries, eras and continents pass by. From East to West, the strings of the cello mingle with the breath of the accordion to remind us that our world is as small as the musical heritage it carries is big…