Prix : 13,60 €
14/11/2015 - Clermont Ferrand (France), Festival Musiques démesurées, Théâtre le Petit Vélo - Christophe Desjardins (viola)
Festival Musiques Démesurées
This piece is in the great tradition of Lamenti by Monteverdi, Purcell, Britten (Lachrymae), or, more recently, Tadeusz Baird's Concerto lugubre.
This is not, of course, a matter of an aesthetic relationship but of the viola's capacity to express the lament and its relation to the voice.
Two elements, one percussive, the other melodic, are going to answer each other, develop, and interfere throughout the piece to the point of giving it a polyphonic dimension, such as Berio envisaged in his Sequenze.
Edith Canat de Chizy
1 CD Fy-Solstice, Visio
Christophe Desjardins (viola)
After pursuing graduate studies in Art and Archaeology and Philosophy at the Sorbonne, Edith Canat de Chizy successively obtained six premiers prix at the Paris Conservatoire including one in composition. She became initiated into electro-acoustic music with Guy Reibel at the Conservatoire [...]