Symphonic
Festival Présences 2024 #11
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
February 11, 2024 - 19:30
MAISON DE LA RADIO ET DE LA MUSIQUE - AUDITORIUM
Distribution
LUCILE DOLLAT | organ
DUO XAMP
ROOMFUL OF TEETH
ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE
LUCIE LEGUAY | direction
Programme
CAROLINE SHAW, Partita for Eight Voices
THÉO MÉRIGEAU, Hoquetus Animalis for organ (commissioned by Radio France - world premiere)
Concerto for two microtonal accordions (commissioned by Radio France - world premiere)
STEVE REICH, Tehilim
Composing a work is like "preparing a meal for someone you love", smiles American Caroline Shaw, the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music, honored here. Both must "be nourishing and complex; you taste it easily at first, only to discover that there's much more underneath". This is proved by her Partita for Eight Voices, set against two new pieces by Théo Mérigeau, as well as Steve Reich's precious Tehilim ("Psalms" in Hebrew), crowning an evening dedicated to the voice.