Emile Vuillermoz

Songs in black and white testifies to a successful encounter between traditional song and classical music that we rarely hear in our cottages. On this first album of the duo, Simon Beaudry (from the group Le Vent du Nord) momentarily abandons his guitar and puts his frank voice at the service of a finely chosen repertoire, accompanied on the piano by Philippe Prud'homme, Grand Prix during the 2016 edition of the Canadian Music Competition. When the latter does not himself sign the arrangements for the piano (modern and dynamic on La drave des Richard, sober and poignant on the superb Bon Voyageur), he takes those written by Benjamin Britten or Émile Vuillermoz and plays them with elegance.

The music critic Emile Vuillermoz wrote about the pianist Debussy: "No one like him could transform a dissonant chord into a small, bronze or silver bell whose harmonic sound spreads out in all four directions."