Quatuor Béla

Concert

Wed 23 June 2021 ,
8:30 p.m.
La Villette, Salle Boris Vian
Access plan
Full : 18 €
Discount Price : 14 €
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Live
Duration: 1h20 (without interlude)
Program (in French)

Concert broadcast in binaural on this website and on IRCAM's Youtube Channel

Content:
<iframe width="560" height="315" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CSmhd72bFA8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> The Béla Quartet explores the immense potential of the contemporary quartet. Francesca Verunelli considers the quartet as an unfolding of a discourse rather than a continuous process. Following the example of what she sees in Kandinsky's painting, the figures mutate and create a certain surprise or ambiguity. Henry Fourès brings together percussion, strings, and electronics, theatricalizing the musical gesture of his accomplice: the percussionist Jean Geoffroy. Percussion and strings, this rare combination is now associated with the name of Béla Bartók. His fourth quartet, undoubtedly the most accomplished of the 20th century, places the violence of the language in the perfection of an entirely symmetrical form. Five arched movements, with one of the most beautiful melodic lines ever written in the center of the program, marking the passage to the other side of the mirror.  Jean Geoffroy percussion Béla Quartet Frédéric Aurier violin Julien Dieudegard violin Julian Boutin viola Luc Dedreuil cello Augustin Muller, Olivier Pasquet IRCAM computer music design Béla Bartók Quatuor n° 4 Francesca Verunelli Unfolding Henry Fourès Un bel éclair qui durerait - premiere 2021 commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou

The Béla Quartet explores the immense potential of the contemporary quartet. Francesca Verunelli considers the quartet as an unfolding of a discourse rather than a continuous process. Following the example of what she sees in Kandinsky's painting, the figures mutate and create a certain surprise or ambiguity. Henry Fourès brings together percussion, strings, and electronics, theatricalizing the musical gesture of his accomplice: the percussionist Jean Geoffroy. Percussion and strings, this rare combination is now associated with the name of Béla Bartók. His fourth quartet, undoubtedly the most accomplished of the 20th century, places the violence of the language in the perfection of an entirely symmetrical form. Five arched movements, with one of the most beautiful melodic lines ever written in the center of the program, marking the passage to the other side of the mirror.

Jean Geoffroy percussion
Béla Quartet
Frédéric Aurier violin
Julien Dieudegard violin
Julian Boutin viola
Luc Dedreuil cello
Augustin Muller, Olivier Pasquet IRCAM computer music design

Béla Bartók Quatuor n° 4
Francesca Verunelli Unfolding
Henry Fourès Un bel éclair qui durerait - premiere 2021
commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou

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Excerpts from the concert works

Unfolding by Francesca Verunelli (Cité de la musique, 2012)
Quatuor à cordes n° 4 by Béla Bartók, 2016

**Le percussionniste Jean Geoffroy**
© Patrick Delance

**Le violoncelliste Luc Dedreuil du Quatuor Béla**
© Titus Lacoste

**L'altiste Julian Boutin du Quatuor Béla**
© Titus Lacoste

**Le violoniste Julien Dieudegard du Quatuor Béla**
© Titus Lacoste

**Le violoniste Frédéric Aurier du Quatuor Béla**
© Titus Lacoste

**La compositrice Francesca Verunelli**
© Julian Hargreaves, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medicis

**Le compositeur Henry Fourès**
© Isabelle Huguet

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou production