Chaplin’s Smile

Multi Grammy Award-nominee, violinist Philippe Quint celebrates Charlie Chaplin’s 130th birthday anniversary with his new album release on Warner “Classics Chaplin’s Smile”. This programme explores Charlie Chaplin’s gifts as a composer as well as his encounters with some of the greatest composers of his day including Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Debussy and Rachmaninov.

Programme

Chaplin City Lights Suite
Stravinsky Tango 1940
Chaplin Tango “Bitterness” from “Monsieur Verdoux”
Schoenberg Piece in D Minor
Chaplin “Weeping Willows”from “The King in NY”
Gershwin/Heifetz It ain’t necessarily so
Chaplin “Eternally” from “Limelight”
Rachmaninov Vocalise
Chaplin “Falling Star” from “The Great Dictator”
Debussy Sonata 3d movement
Chaplin The Kid Fantasy
Smile “Encore”

Performers

Philippe Quint violin
Petr Limonov piano

Introductory talk by Kiera Chaplin