Douze créations à Royaumont : Voix Nouvelles rattrape le temps perdu

By Tristan Labouret, 08 September 2020

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“la création artistique est toujours vivace à l’heure du coronavirus”

Reviewed at Abbaye de Royaumont, Asnières-sur-Oise on 6 September 2020

Filidei, I funerali dell'anarchico Serantini

Carretero, Haikus de Machado (création mondiale)

Hidalgo Navas, Soliloquio... de un teatro fracasado (création mondiale)

Baba, Non-canonic Variations

Milenko, We Are Strangers (création mondiale)

Avramidou, Metallages (création mondiale)

Laugsch, FUNDUS3: fetisch j (création mondiale)

Rodrigo, TOCAR (création mondiale)

Rotella, Anamorphose – b (création mondiale)

Angot, N27 (création mondiale)

Scroccaro, Overdrive (création mondiale)

Filidei, Lied (création mondiale)

Taylor, See and Saw (création mondiale)

Foresi, I never understood wind (création mondiale)

Chen, Cut up red stars round me

Ryoko Aoki, Vocals

Eva Reiter, Viola da Gamba

Ensemble Musikfabrik

Mariano Chiacchiarini, Conductor

Les Voix Nouvelles

Upload questions the meaning of life... and of opera

Kurt Gottschalk, 22nd March

Does opera have room for film? And live video? Multiple screens and advertorials? And allusions to onscreen identity and cyber-immortality?

*****

Ensemble Musikfabrik in Berlin

Stephen Crowe, 18th September

An evening of frivolousness and solemnity.

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Musikfabrik parades new Partch instruments in slapstick tragedy

Jacob Slattery, 23rd July

Under the direction of Heiner Goebbels, Ensemble Musikfabrik’s twenty-two multifaceted percussionist-vocalist-actor musicians executed an industrious performance of Partch’s magnum opus, The Delusion of the Fury.

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Partch UK Premiere creates a Surreal Sunday Experience

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 23rd February

In the world of concert music, it is a rare privilege to witness the first ever performance of an instrument in Britain, let alone a whole host that have been specifically created for a piece of music. A stage full of weird and wonderful creations took over the Colston Hall for one of the most surreal concerts I have ever attended.

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The terror of games: RIAS Chamber Choir and Ensemble musikFabrik at Musikfest Berlin

Dan Wang, 14th September

If there were a gold medal for programming at Musikfest Berlin, it would go to last night’s concert with the RIAS Chamber Choir, Ensemble musikFabrik, and a host of other musicians, gathered under the baton of James Wood.

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Edinburgh International Festival: Ensemble musikFabrik's tribute to Frank Zappa

Alan Coady, 28th August

What drew John Cage and Frank Zappa into the same programme was their mutual admiration of Edgard Varèse, at its most striking in their use of percussion. Somehow I feel Cage would have been delighted to be the one out of step with an otherwise perfectly symmetrical programme. Flanking the interval were performances of Varèse’s Ionisation (1929–31).

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Tristan Labouret

Musicologue diplômé du CNSMD de Paris, Tristan Labouret collabore avec de nombreux artistes et institutions musicales (Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, festivals de musique de chambre de Deauville, Just Classik Festival…), menant des activités de médiation à destination de tous les publics. Ex-altiste toujours passionné par les répertoires chambristes et symphoniques, il occupe depuis 2018 le poste de rédacteur en chef de la partie francophone de Bachtrack.