Corinne Chatel (Gesang) und Denis Forget (Akkordeion)

Musical reading in the Kreissparkasse Anhalt-Bitterfeld

“I really would love to be home now...“

Maria J. Cobo Méndez and Bernd Lambrecht, Reading

Corinne Chatel, Vocals
Denis Forget, Accordion
Stefan Sigg, Flugelhorn
Tiny Schmauch, Bass


This reading of extracts from the sparkling and humorous correspondence between Weill and Lenya is given musical support by the French jazz and chanson singer Corinne Chatel. With her cultural background and a vocal range that extends over three octaves, Ms Chatel is able to combine diverse musical styles ranging from lyrical song to cabaret, jazz, pop and soul. Audiences should also expect some scatting and other daring vocal gymnastics. Together with her quintet she won the 2001 jazz prize awarded by Bavarian radio and Süddeutsche Zeitung, with one radio reviewer commenting: “over the course of the evening the band produces a musical kaleidoscope, conjuring onto the stage diverse characters such as Edith Piaf, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Bobby McFerrin”. Six years later the Corinne Chatel Trio was awarded the jury prize at the international Crest Jazz Vocal competition.
In addition to her work with jazz musicians, the singer has also joined forces with the classical symphony orchestra. For example her interpretation in 2006 of American jazz standards, with the support of symphony orchestras from Nancy and Strasbourg, met with great success. In May 2008 Ms Chatel gave her debut as Anna in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins. The Munich journal Arabella was suitable imPressd: “This is a voice and temperament that are dangerously addictive – one taste and you crave more”. Here is one addiction, we feel, that is not bad for your health.