Oeuvre: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil

Le Festival d'Automne à Paris présente à la Cité de la Musique un portrait de Claude Vivier, avec le chœur Solistes XXI et l'Ensemble intercontemporain.

Listening to Grisey's Quatre Chants two decades after its composition, it is clear that he was on a threshold into a new approach to dramatic vocal music.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s latest “only connect” programme was inspired by its allocated date – 12/12/12. An equivalent numerical repetition will not recur for another century. Furthermore the reversal of the first figure to 21 coincides with the day signalled by the Mayan calendar as a day of ending.