La créativité des Voix Nouvelles 2021 à Royaumont

By Clara Leonardi, 06 September 2021

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“on ne peut qu’être impressionné par la richesse et la variété des univers de chacun”

Reviewed at Abbaye de Royaumont, Asnières-sur-Oise on 5 September 2021

Zhu, Pinks (11h30 – création mondiale)

Brito, Couleurs... angoisse (11h30 – création mondiale)

Jiménez Tamame, Glacial Chasm: three visions of ice: Frostbite, Homeostasis, Dark depths (11h30 – création mondiale)

Grace Graves, The feeling of being in a body (11h30 – création mondiale)

Carretero, Nox est perpetua (11h30 – création mondiale)

Besingrand, Caché par Kami (11h30 – création mondiale)

Park, Happily ever after (11h30 – création mondiale)

Kaev, Glimpses (15h30 – création mondiale)

Steen-Andersen, Study for String Instruments #1 (15h30)

Goldford, Embers (15h30 – création mondiale)

Champeaux, Escuchando a la piedra (15h30 – création mondiale)

Walton, I need more light (15h30 – création mondiale)

Gualandi, Francesca (15h30 – création mondiale)

Rodrigo, Ntunda (15h30 – création mondiale)

Exaudi

Ensemble Linea

Ensemble Voix Nouvelles

Thomas Lacôte, Organ

James Weeks, Conductor

Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Conductor

Oliver Leith’s Garland: dreamlike chaos in a Peckham car park

Marat Ingeldeev, 18th September

Only Bells and Horses: Garland transforms a Peckham car park into a dreamlike, chaotic spectacle of musicians, objects and voices – thrilling, poignant and unabashedly emotional.

****1

A Requiem for Peace: Exaudi saves the day at London’s Kings Place

Christopher Woodley, 16th February

A sonorous performance by Exaudi brings to life Eugene Birman's Requiem for Peace, Russia: Today.

***11

Grey reverie and awkward electronics

Danny Riley, 6th September

The LCO and Actress present tantalizing textures, while new works of placid emotion envelop the senses.

***11

Birtwistle's early gems mesmerise

Katy Wright, 6th September

Lean yet nuanced performances from Oliver Knussen and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in commemoration of Harrison Birtwistle's 80th birthday

****1

Prom 47: John Cage night

Paul Kilbey, 17th August

Now they know how many cacti it takes to fill the Albert Hall. Last night’s marathon John Cage Prom finished up, over three hours after it had started, with a wonderfully cactus-heavy performance of Branches (1976).

*****

Exaudi sing Cage at Spitalfields Music Summer Festival

Paul Kilbey, 21st June

Almost as remarkable as John Cage's actual music is how varied it is. Nothing obvious connects The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, a beautifully simple four-note piece for soprano and piano lid, to Four Solos for voice, a late work in which four singers independently do a series of strange things at the same time.

****1

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Clara Leonardi

Formée au Conservatoire de Metz, Clara Leonardi y obtient son DEM de violon et son prix de Perfectionnement de quatuor à cordes. Elle s’implique aujourd’hui dans plusieurs orchestres amateurs parisiens en parallèle de ses études de commerce et fréquente assidûment les grandes salles parisiennes. Passionnée par le répertoire des compositrices, elle est aussi la co-fondatrice de ComposHer, un média en ligne dédié aux femmes dans la musique classique.