Pierre-Yves Macé
Concert Palimpseste
Pierre-Yves Macé © Christophe Berlet ©
Pierre-Yves Macé
Virgules radiophoniques, for all instruments and electronics, book I (2013-2023)
Maintenant, de toutes nos forces, essayons de ne rien comprendre text by Pierre Senges for string quartet, harpsichord, tenor, countertenor (2017-2023)
Virgules radiophoniques, for all instruments and electronics, volume II (2013-2023)
Kind des Faust text by Sylvain Creuzevault for string quintet, flute, harp, electronic keyboard, soprano, countertenor, bass (2016-2023)
Commission for the rewrite, Festival d'Automne à Paris
Anne-Claire Baconnais, soprano
Guilhem Terrail, counter-tenor
Steve Zheng, tenor
Laurent Bourdeaux, bass
Ensemble Multilatérale, Les Métaboles
Conductor, Léo Warynski
Surtitling, Oscar Lozano
Stage direction, Élise Simonet
Virgules radiophoniques, Maintenant, de toutes nos forces, essayons de rien comprendre and Kind des Faust by Pierre-Yves Macé, commissioned for the 2023 version Festival d'Automne à Paris
The Théâtre de la Ville-Paris and the Festival d'Automne à Paris co-present this concert.
With the support of Sacem
In the work of Pierre-Yves Macé, writing is very definitely a palimpsest. It involves the unceasing re-writing of what has already been written for the pleasure of finding new shapes, and throwing their lines into disorder, so that their sequences can be arranged in a different way. This concert brings us several miniatures, a homage to brevity right up to the genres of tradition, opera and cantata.
The chamber cantata Maintenant, de toutes nos forces, essayons de ne rien comprendre, set to a libretto by Pierre Senges, is based on the Bach BWW94 and BWW110 cantatas. It draws literary and musical citations from them, altered in some way. Forging the minutest of new paths within these illustrious models, the tenor and countertenor parts become the secular struggle between materialism and idealism.
Kind des Faust was used 2016 in Sylvain Creuzevault's piece Angelus Novus. AntiFaust, in which a composer is one of the characters. It served as a work of opera within theatre, a piece which provided an alternative reading to Goethe's magnum opus and its forgotten figure of the child of Faust and Marguerite, drowned by their parents and who returns from the kingdom of the dead to seek vengeance.
Opening the concert, and then in between the different cantata and opera, two notebooks from Virgules radiophoniques, made ten years ago for a programme by Gérard Pesson, Boudoir & autres, will be unfurling, in a fluid and coherent way, Developed with instrumentation specifically designed for the purpose, in the here and now of the concert hall, these commas,revisit the initial marks on the page, giving rise to a host of different paths.
In the same place
Mohamed El Khatib La vie secrète des vieux
Mohamed El Khatib furthers his passion for documentary theatre by tackling a subject that he brings from out of the shadows, namely that of eroticism and the love lives of “oldies”. Put together in a daring yet tender way, his new piece explores this theme from the perspective of desire, thereby going against the usual connotations associated with old age.
Jérôme Combier, Alberto Posadas, Salvatore Sciarrino
The music of Jérôme Combier opens up the way we listen to the details of the world and their subtle mutations. Poetic, and punctuated by mysterious outbursts, his music celebrates a plasticity which in turn shapes its instrumental and electronic elements. Strands, his latest work, sets up relationships between the animal and plant worlds, weaving spider's web-like threads between.