Daniel Capelletti

Piano, voice. Written and recorded in 1989. Published by Casterman. Duration: 40m.

I was lucky enough to collaborate on a number of occasions with Pierre Coran, the renowned poet and author of children’s literature. In addition to Amadou, Sven et les musiciens du ciel, Miniatures and other projects, this cycle of forty short nursery rhymes has given me yet another opportunity to set Pierre’s inventiveness to music, here in short pieces for voice and piano. The entire set was recorded as part of Casterman’s book-and-cassette edition. The vocal parts were performed alternately by Pierrette Laffineuse and Éric Châle, whom I had the joy of accompanying myself on the piano.