‘Accordions play and the street is alive with song’ pronounces Edith Piaf as her band, led by Robert Chauvigny, strike up the opening swell of C’est Pour Ca and immediately we are transported to the Rive Gauche ensconced in a fog of Gauloises and the aroma of a deep red wine enveloping us in the musical cacophony. That it is a performance at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall in January 1957 is a testament to Piaf’s ability to not allow the song to inhibit her but rather inhabit her thus transporting herself and her audience to the very heart and soul of the songs origins. It is...Edith Piaf – Edith Piaf At Carnegie Hall
‘Accordions play and the street is alive with song’ pronounces Edith Piaf as her band, led by Robert Chauvigny, strike up the opening swell of C’est Pour Ca and immediately we are transported to the Rive Gauche ensconced in a fog of Gauloises and the aroma of a deep red wine enveloping us in the musical cacophony. That it is a performance at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall in January 1957 is a testament to Piaf’s ability to not allow the song to inhibit her but rather inhabit her thus transporting herself and her audience to the very heart and soul of the songs origins. It is...