Traditional: Le Landamman danse – Jean DAETWYLER: Le Rhône danse – Traditional: Bourrée valaisanne – Gustave DORET / René MORAX: La vigne est en fleur – Traditional: La Maison su on pomi – Émile JAQUES-DALCROZE: Mon lac est pur – Thoinot ARBEAU: Pavane “Belle qui tiens ma vie” – Traditional: Les zoziaux – Traditional / Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU: Les pantouflettes – Traditional: Le fromage – Arrangement populaire – Y’a rien de si charmant – La farandole – Quand le bouvier – Dimanche au soir – Où allez-vous fillette? – La montagnarde – Bonjour le rossignol – Aqueli mountagno – Gavotte – Les Arlésiennes – Farandole

Ensemble Aristide Padygros http://www.padygros.ch/
Chœur Mixte de Commugny, Claude Maréchaux, Conductor

From Commugny, in the Vaud region, when we lean against the Jura, the lake lies before us, as wide as the span of our gaze. Léman: the incognito of the Rhône, which suspends its momentum and conceals its strength before confiding in it again all the way to the sea.

But carried further east, the gaze hits the mountains at the bottom of the lake, the Vaud and Valais chains, between which the river descending from the Swiss water tower has found just enough to make a passage for itself. And then the eyes turn slowly southwards: the lake, the Savoy mountains, then, on a clear day, the top of the Geneva jet d’eau which, on windy days, casts the waters of the Rhône in a great white harp; further to the right, and still further away, this brutal gash in the elegant curves of the Jura: the pas de l’Écluse, through which the now French Rhône rushes, still unsure of which direction to take, before finding the straight line to the south.

Yes, from Commugny, a simple semicircular glance makes us imagine the whole course of the Rhône, and calls us to the provinces it crosses. And it’s no doubt this simple glance that has given the people of this village’s mixed choir, from the whirlpools of the Valais to the wide, tranquil path of the water through Provence.

We sing and dance all along the river. We’ve been singing and dancing for a long time. Let’s listen to the Commugny mixed choir and the Aristide Padygros group. Let’s take a trip down to the Mediterranean with them, sometimes going back in time.

Jean-Samuel Curtet

Translated with DeepL.com