Clara Iannotta, Dmitri Chostakovich, Franz Schubert
novembernov 16
Saturday november 16
20h00
Clara Iannotta, strange bird—no longer navigating by a star (new version). Commissioned by Radio France and the Festival d’Automne à Paris – worldwide creation.
Dmitri Chostakovitch, Concerto pour violoncelle n° 2
Franz Schubert, Symphonie n° 9 « La Grande » Truls Mørk, cello
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Markus Poschner, direction
Radio France and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are presenting this concert in co-realisation.
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Spanning three centuries, these three works speak of self-care, the incessant quest for new languages, crisis and renewal, and the inherent element of wandering in our lives. And of the landscape in which each point, equidistant from the centre, reveals itself to a traveller who moves around there without moving forward.
At the end of the 2010s, Clara Iannotta experienced, after long periods of treatment, a feeling of wandering, or abandonment, similar to the "vast empty skies" we encounter in Dorothy Molloy's poem My heart lives in my chest, and which was the inspiration behind Clara Iannotta's piece strange bird – no longer navigating by a star. “I didn’t know who I was. What had become of my music?" Loss, and birds flying aimlessly, unable to land, bear witness to her attempts to express this form of existence. Composed in 1966, during a stay in the Crimea, and dedicated to Rostropovich, who contributed to the writing of the cadenzas, the Concerto for cello and orchestra no. 2 also reflects a moment of crisis and change in Shostakovich's style, which in fact resulted in him in rewriting the finale. The story of Schubert's The Great, which the composer never heard in concert, intersects with the greatest names in 19th century music, namely Beethoven, whose influence is evident here, and Schumann, who had in his hands the manuscript of the work and transmitted it to Mendelssohn. The latter was then responsible for its premiere, in Leipzig, eleven years after the death of the Viennese master.
Interview with Clara Iannotta
See also
Clara Iannotta, Chris Swithinbank I listen to the inward through my bones
Clara Iannotta's project is to listen to the city and its various life-forms, in a space, that of a church, which a priori preserves those inside from the noises outside. She does so by means of an electronic installation designed for the acoustics of the Church of Saint-Eustache, a building with a rich musical tradition, ranging from from Rameau to Berlioz.
Clara Iannotta echo from afar (II) ; a stir among the stars, a making way ; Œuvre nouvelle
What are the relationships between a spider's growth, the sound experience of radiotherapy and the lights and clicking sounds of old-fashioned slide viewers? The work of Clara Iannotta, of which this concert offers a journey through its recent years, is a mode of self-knowledge, or an autobiography in which sound and body are intimately linked.