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Writing from 1 p.m. set off to meet Ibrahim Maalouf, the most famous French trumpeter. The musician celebrates Christmas in a double album, by orchestrating the great standards of these end-of-year celebrations.
Ibrahim Maalouf had put on his Christmas sweater, for the occasion, for his first Christmas concert. A party to which he pays homage in his new opus, First Christmas. The Last Christmas Eve is a new piece composed by the musician in homage to his grandmother. “I always thought that it was magnificent music, and that we had to find the beauty of these melodies and harmonize them in my own way”, Confides Ibrahim Maalouf.
In this new album, Ibrahim Maalouf therefore addresses the theme of Christmas, but also of the family. He recorded some of his pieces in one of the oldest churches in Paris, where his father was sacristan in the 1960s. A father for whom Christmas should be celebrated with modesty. “My father told us about our cousins, our brothers and sisters who lived at the time in Lebanon under the bombs (…) All my childhood there was a feeling of guilt, of how we can have Christmas without feeling guilty“, explains the musician.
25 great classics and three new compositions that Ibrahim Maalou plays on tour, and on December 16 at the Zénith in Paris