Gérard Pesson Maurice Ravel Alexandre Scriabine Brice Pauset
Gérard Pesson/Maurice Ravel/Alexandre Scriabine/Brice Pauset
Accentus/Laurence Equilbey
© M. B. Chabrol ©
Maurice Ravel / Gérard Pesson, transcription for a chorus from Sheherazade (La Flûte enchantée, L’Indifférent), et de Ronsard à son âme
Alexandre Scriabine / Gérard Pesson, Preuve par la neige, transcription of a chorus of pieces for piano
Gérard Pesson, for horn and bagpipes
Philippe Manoury, Inharmonies
Creation. Made-to-Order for Accentus
Brice Pauset, Zwei Studien über Dornröschen (Two studies on Sleeping Beauty)
Creation. Made-to-Order for Accentus
Maurice Ravel, Tree Songs
Gérard Pesson, Chants populaires with Poems of Philippe Beck
Creation. Made-to-Order for Accentus and the Festival d'Automne à Paris
Nicolas Chedmail, horns
François Lazarevitch, bagpipes
Accentus
Laurence Equilbey, musical direction
Co-realized with Instant Pluriel
Thanks to the support of the Mécenat Musical Société Générale, and the Sacem
As well as the Ernst Von Seimens Foundation for Music
A concert presented during the European Cultural Season in France (1st of July- 31st of December)
The final concert in the Gerard Pesson cycle explores an essential aspect of his work and the relationship with classical tradition and repertoire. With Ravel and Skryabin providing a source of inspiration, he has composed restrained, abstract and striking pieces, such as Chants Populaires (to a text by Philippe Beck) commissioned by the Festival and Accentus Ensemble.
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