Pierre Senges et Serge Bloch présentent Molière Sa Majesté l'Acteur Lu par Marzorati et interprété par Les Lunaisiens et Les Pages du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles

Pierre Senges et Serge Bloch présentent Molière Sa Majesté l'Acteur

Lu par Marzorati et interprété par Les Lunaisiens et Les Pages du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. An illustrated children's book this one, with a CD included, created for the celebration of the 400th year of the birth of Moliere.  

Children can choose if reading or listening this book, finding in both cases, an extreme joy and excitement.

I suggest to everyone the listening, while the reader will follow the written words of the book. 

This one is a full-immersion in music, words in fact, for celebrating thanks to many enchanting songs the period where Moliere emerged as the most powerful actor and creator of wonderful comedies powerfully still represented, fresh and modern in the theaters of the entire world. 

Once, the grand-father of Jean-Baptiste, real name of Moliere, brought him after a long walk, in the Pont Neuf; recently built, we are at the beginning of 1600, this bridge was the most creative part of Paris, because, there, many many actors, but also acrobats, puppetters enjoyed to entertain people: at first Jean-Baptiste Poquelin didn't understand this world so different from the one he knew very well. 

His grand-father brought him also to a theater, a real theather. Jean-Baptiste was suprised because of the different way of speaking that actors had, with more emphasys, color, if compared to common people: his grand-father reassured him: they are actors and they so, are giving an interpratation with more pathos, of several existential situations portrayed on the stage.

After the first visit with his grand-father, Jean-Baptiste couldn't help himself: he decided to spend every single minute of his free time in company of actors. He did want to spend as much time as possible with his new friends because the house where he lived with his grand-father was big, and old and too sad to him still too little for being confined at home.

Actors  started to appreciate him; he assisted to Scaramouche, an italian comedy learning the show in its enterity: from lines passing through the appreciation for the the beauty that was surrounding actors:  coreography, fancy-dress costumes.  He became close friend in particular with a girl. Soon, Jean-Baptiste creates a song on the monarch, and although the king hasn't still listened to this song, humoristically the rest of the population have, appreciating it a lot.

But...It's a mess because if the king doesn't know that, monsieur Couperose a name that it's a program, has...

So, this guard, with the king decide of putting in jail the first person that they think could potentially be the responsible for the creation of this song...

Jean-Baptiste is so sad for the mess caused to his friends and the creation of a song that, it seems, is upsetting the king.

In the while, Jean-Baptiste decides that he will become an actor; he didn't know that he would have been the biggest actor born in France, but, surely he calls himself with the artistic name of Moliere.

Pierre Senges is a french writer, while Serge Bloch has illustrated  with a special and sophisticated touch the book; thanks to the chorus of Les Lunaisiens Arnaud Marzorati proposes the rediscovery of a certain french song and sonority. 

A beautiful, humurous, and suggestive livre-disc! Pour tout! Les enfants et les adults. 

Highly recommended.

I thank La Joie de Lire for the physical copy of the book.

Anna Maria Polidori