Répons

Concert

Wed 30 June 2021 ,
8 p.m.
Cité de la musique, Salle des concerts
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Full : 20 €
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Pierre Boulez's Répons refers to the responsorial masterpieces by Gabrieli and Monteverdi, with an instrumental ensemble at the center of the installation, six soloists on the periphery, and electronics throughout the space. Répons is also one of the high points of electroacoustic music. Répons is also one of the peaks of electroacoustic music. The dramatic entrance of the solistes and the electronics shortly after the sixth minute still has the dramatic force of a first time. With stunning mastery, Boulez unites all the actors of the work in a symbiotic relationship. The image of a "spiral form" has imposed itself, each moment allowing us to observe the trajectory travelled and the path to come. This evening begins with the premiere of Anthèmes 2 in its version for viola and electronics. The writing categories of the strings - pizzicato, trill, organ point, harmonics - are scaled by the electronics. The end of Anthèmes 2, like that of Répons, draws a horizon line, a smooth time. It masterfully embodies the Boulezian art of the unfinished. Or how not to finish. Odile Auboin viola Samuel Favre vibraphone Gilles Durot xylophone Françoise Rivalland cymbalum Valeria Kafelnikov harp Dimitri Vassilakis, Sébastien Vichard piano Ensemble intercontemporain Matthias Pintscher conductor Andrew Gerzso, Augustin Muller IRCAM computer-music design Pierre Boulez Anthèmes 2 - creation of the version for viola 2021, Répons

Pierre Boulez's Répons refers to the responsorial masterpieces by Gabrieli and Monteverdi, with an instrumental ensemble at the center of the installation, six soloists on the periphery, and electronics throughout the space. Répons is also one of the high points of electroacoustic music. Répons is also one of the peaks of electroacoustic music. The dramatic entrance of the solistes and the electronics shortly after the sixth minute still has the dramatic force of a first time. With stunning mastery, Boulez unites all the actors of the work in a symbiotic relationship. The image of a "spiral form" has imposed itself, each moment allowing us to observe the trajectory travelled and the path to come. This evening begins with the premiere of Anthèmes 2 in its version for viola and electronics. The writing categories of the strings - pizzicato, trill, organ point, harmonics - are scaled by the electronics. The end of Anthèmes 2, like that of Répons, draws a horizon line, a smooth time. It masterfully embodies the Boulezian art of the unfinished. Or how not to finish.

Odile Auboin viola
Samuel Favre vibraphone
Gilles Durot xylophone
Françoise Rivalland cymbalum
Valeria Kafelnikov harp
Dimitri Vassilakis, Sébastien Vichard piano
Ensemble intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher conductor
Andrew Gerzso, Augustin Muller IRCAM computer-music design

Pierre Boulez Anthèmes 2 - creation of the version for viola 2021, Répons

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Excerpts from Pierre Boulez's works

Répons by Pierre Boulez, 1982 (recorded at IRCAM, 2016)
Anthèmes II, by Pierre Boulez, 1997

**Installation du dispositif de Répons, Avignon 1988**
© Dominique Darr

**L'Ensemble intercontemporain**
© Luc Hossepied

Coproduction Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Ensemble intercontemporain, Philharmonie de Paris.

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