Humble Voice // ELSA PAPATANASIOS

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Elsa Papatanasios impassions herself for the early song and in particular for the rich repertory whom the song in the Middle Ages constitutes. She attempts to make revive a music alive, able to move and to transmit an immense inheritance.

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She occurs in concert within sets of Early Music: the consort Ensemble Absalon or the band Alienor Voices, this last receiving 9/10 in the French magazine Classica-Repertory for the disc Lumen (recorded in 2002).

At the time of many concerts of song of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, she revisits the first Western polyphonies, the mystical song of Hildegard von Bingen or the music florentine at the court of Medicis etc.

In addition her light lyric soprano voice enables her to approach the lyric recitals, contemporary creations in particular those of Manolo Gonzalez:

Apocalypse (2001) an oratorio-jazz, Oracle (2005) cantata for soloists, chorus, ancient instruments, Stabat Mater (2005) sequence for soprano with the trio Delta Percussion, Nymphs (2006) on an anthem in old Greek, Iberica (2007) cantata for soprano solo, choir of children and percussions.

She is illustrated in the contemporary repertory operatic with the Czech opera Memnon of Vojtech Saudek, by playing the role of the Spirit, in a setting in scene of Philippe Godefroid (represented in particular in the Czech Center of Paris in March 2007).

She looks further into various vocal styles, of the Byzantine song to the interpretation of the Lied while passing by the song baroque. Moreover, in the consort "Ensemble Episodes", she sings cantatas, French and Italian operatic arias in concerts of music baroque accompanied with the harpsichord (Odile Aurengo) and traverso (Pierre Fardet).

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