Over time

The mixing of conservatory students and professional musicians in concert is both emulation and connivance. It leads to an essential taming of the music for the young musicians in the making, a truly incarnate practice of interpretation. Accompanying them thus brings about the fraternity of a path, a common thought and magnified responses.

The repertoire here is that of the refinement of harmony and timbre around a French music coiled, over several generations, in the colorful enjoyment of sound and the exactitude of rhythms.

Maurice Ravel makes the invisible flesh of Stéphane Mallarmé’s Three Poems quiver, offering the poet a new way to free “winged thoughts, unconscious reveries from their prison”.

Tristan Murail’s Barque mystique, with its perpetually changing alloys, its unpredictable rhythms with clockwork necessities, sails on Odilon Redon’s palette, from whom it borrows its title and perhaps its mood, understood by the composer as “voluptuousness of tears, delectable gloom”.

Up close, Jean-Luc Hervé scans the sound using multiple focal points, on zones of micro-striated smoothness and amplitudes that form at once the volume, the strata and the living shimmer of the material.

Two creations by students of the composition class of the CRR of Boulogne-Billancourt naturally integrate the program, because to accompany is also to know how to surround the emerging generation of young composers with solid and sensitive performers.