“Together with Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen is a Rara Avis of the French Chansons world.”
— Erik Voermans, Het Parool
“Charlotte Haesen's singing is extraordinarily impressive, dramatic, cheerful, melancholy and moving.''
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Erik Voermans, Het Parool
“A passionate romance between strings and a voice.”
— Pablo Cabenda, De Volkskrant
“Wonderfully intimate and authentic. Exactly the right mix between light seriousness and whimsical humour.”
— Mischa Spel, NRC
“Anyone listening to Café des Chansons is immediately astonished by three things: the fascinating voice, the crystal-clear French and the velvety string sound.”
— Guido van Oorschot, SENA Performers Magazine
“What a fantastic CD. Repertoire reaching from 2012 back to 1930. Good, easy singing, storytelling without exaggerated pathos, natural articulation. Modest, functional and tasteful arrangements. Beautifully played: warm where it needs to be and ”shrill” where it’s called for.’”
—Edwin Rutten
CAFÉ DES CHANSONS
On a sunny Saturday afternoon Charlotte was singing French chansons at Amsterdam’s Noordermarkt, where she was discovered by viola player Odile Torenbeek. Odile and Charlotte decided to put together a chanson programme accompanied by a string quartet. Leading Dutch and Belgian arrangers such as Paul Prenen and Wijnand van Klaveren then arranged the chansons around the ensemble’s own particular sound. Charlotte Haesen plus four musicians from the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra founded Café des Chansons. They perform gems of the Chansons repertoire, including the great French classics by figures such as Barbara, Brel, Gainsbourg, Brassens and Piaf in theaters all over Europe.
DISCOGRAPHY
PERLES DE PLUIE
2019
DU BOUT DES YEUX
2018
CAFÉ DES CHANSONS
2016 (SOLD OUT)
SOUS LE CIEL DE PARIS
CAFÉ DES CHANSONS LIVE
ON PODIUM WITTEMAN
PARLEZ-MOI D’AMOUR
CAFÉ DES CHANSONS
ON THE NOTHERN MARKET IN AMSTERDAM
DIS QUAND REVIENDRAS-TU?
CAFÉ DES CHANSONS
IN THE MUSEUM VAN LOON
