Elizabethan Gardens

With Maude Gratton, keyboardist and founder of il Convito, Laurent Cuniot engages in correspondence between peers that four centuries apart but do not separate. By undertaking a navigation between then and now, on roads that cross very far from what we usually hear, the listener welcomes new emotions, as if it were a question, here and there, of the curious otherness of another ourselves.

Maude Gratton travels with il Convito to the golden age of Elizabethan music in the 16th and 17th centuries, to William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Dowland, with an escape towards Henry Purcell, a generation later, whose writing receives the heritage of his predecessors while inventing the audacities to come.

For TM+, Laurent Cuniot joins Jonathan Harvey and Helen Grimes in this adventure of chiaroscuro correspondence. As with their elders from distant centuries, the gravity of tone and the intimacy of death are combined with the energy of movement and the virtuosity of color.

Gérard Pesson’s new work completes the circle – or rather, it opens a new one, which intertwines the numbers, weaves together the vertigo of melancholic shadow and the promise of a dance of light, weaving together references with the necessary finesse to avoid using pastiche. A work for today’s listener, proposing to him, in mirroring the others in the program, to shake up his familiar listening comfort to reach a horizon a little higher than the ordinary.