Musical Theatre Review – Leon Ferguson

Chanson

★★★★★ Croissants, the Eiffel Tower, love and death, more death and love, Paris in the spring. The world of Piaf, Brel, Trenet and Aznavour. World famous singers covering ‘If You Go Away’, ‘Milord’, ‘Seasons in the Sun’, ‘Autumn Leaves’, ‘If We Only Have Love’. Those who aren’t familiar with Barb Jungr and her prodigious repertoire,…

The Reviews Hub – Sonny Waheed

Chanson

★★★★★ “These are songs of Death. Love. Death, Death, Death. A little bit of love. Death. And love.” So introduces Barb Jungr to her repertoire of Chanson songs, specifically Chanson Réaliste, as typified by Edith Piaf and Marie Dubas, and Nouvelle Chanson, a more modern evolution akin to Serge Gainsbourg and Coralie Clement. In Jungr’s…