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Kaleidoscope by Fatma Said – music inspired by dance, from tango to opera trad.: Minué cantado Massenet: Obéissons quand leur voix appelle (from Manon) Messager: Il est dans les nuits espagnoles (from La Fiancée en Loterie) Straus, O: Je t’aime Strauss, J, II: Wiener Blut (from Wiener Blut) Offenbach: Barcarolle (from Les Contes d’Hoffmann ) Gounod: Ah! Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (from Roméo et Juliette) Loewe, F: I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady) Berlin, I: Cheek to cheek Weill, K: Youkali Gardel: Por Una Cabeza Villoldo: El choclo Piazzólla: Yo Soy Maria Piazzólla: Oblivion Paoli: Senza fine “Throughout my life, since I was very young, dancing has accompanied me everywhere, and I’ve learned a number of different styles: ballroom, Latin, Argentinian tango and more. I’ve always felt inspired by the physical and internal movement in dancing – whether with a partner or alone – and for me it represents another way of expressing myself. While researching potential repertoire for this album I found myself drawn to songs from a number of very different countries and peoples, all with strong dance elements – sometimes in the words, but invariably in the music. And movement here has a double meaning for me: these songs move me emotionally, and they contain the steps and rhythms of dance – many greatly varied kinds of dance – in their expressions of feeling and character. To me those two meanings interlink as one: they are the emotional and physical in unison – a single entity. It’s hard to imagine music without dance, or dance without music…“
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