Two Marguerites
't Mosterdzaadje
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A double portrait.
Marguerite Babaian, Armenian classical singer, pianist and musicologist, was a leading figure in Paris’s early twentieth-century avant-garde music scene. She worked closely with composers and musicologists, bringing to the stage works that transformed traditional songs into a distinctive classical language. Gomidas’s confidante, she was the first to hear some of his new songs. She premiered Greek folk songs by Ravel and was the dedicatee of Ravel’s Tripatos; she also championed the music of Canteloube and Debussy.
A century later, Falcon soprano, writer and researcher Natali Boghossian, whose second name is Marguerite, recognises a kindred spirit. Both born in Germany, the two women share Armenian roots, a passion for musical discovery and a deep understanding of the musicality of different languages. Babaian made her home in Paris; Boghossian in Amsterdam.
Boghossian’s recent Concertgebouw debut with her Zartonk Consort in the Nieuwe Blik Terug series, with a programme devoted to Gomidas, sold out and received a standing ovation. She now shapes these connections into an original recital with pianist Hans van Beelen: a double portrait in which Babaian’s musical world meets her own.
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