Les Métaboles light up this end of the year with Christmases from Europe, South America, the Caribbean and even Africa... Celestial light and lights of the world ignite a sparkling and traveling program. Ideal for getting together before the traditional confectioners' break

Les Métaboles illuminent cette fin d’année avec des noëls venus d’Europe, d’Amérique du Sud, des Caraïbes ou encore d’Afrique… Lumière céleste et lumières du monde embrasent un programme étincelant et voyageur. Idéal pour se retrouver ensemble avant la traditionnelle trêve des confiseurs.

Les Métaboles light up this end of the year with Christmases from Europe, South America, the Caribbean and even Africa... Celestial light and lights of the world ignite a sparkling and traveling program. Ideal for getting together before the traditional confectioners' break

Les Métaboles light up this end of the year with Christmases from Europe, South America, the Caribbean and even Africa... Celestial light and lights of the world ignite a sparkling and traveling program. Ideal for getting together before the traditional confectioners' break

This concert invites you on a captivating sound journey with exceptional works. Luigi Nono, in Das Atmende Klarsein for choir, flute and electronics, explores the limits of breathing and sound clarity, creating an immersive and meditative atmosphere. In contrast, Les Prophéties des Sybilles by Roland de Lassus, a work for choir, transports us to the Renaissance with its rich harmonies and prophetic texts, offering a deeply moving and spiritual musical experience.

With the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation

This concert invites you on a captivating sound journey with exceptional works. Luigi Nono, in Das Atmende Klarsein for choir, flute and electronics, explores the limits of breathing and sound clarity, creating an immersive and meditative atmosphere. In contrast, Les Prophéties des Sybilles by Roland de Lassus, a work for choir, transports us to the Renaissance with its rich harmonies and prophetic texts, offering a deeply moving and spiritual musical experience

Les Métaboles, in small numbers, present Romance du Soir, a series of concerts to showcase the gems of a cappella vocal music, from the Renaissance to the 20th century.

Les Métaboles, in small numbers, present Romance du Soir, a series of concerts to showcase the gems of a cappella vocal music, from the Renaissance to the 20th century.

Les Métaboles and Léo Warynski shine the spotlight on the repertoire for multiple choirs. The principle of writing separate choirs experienced its Baroque golden age under the vaults of the Sistine Chapel – witness Allegri’s Miserere for two choirs, the sacred works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who admired these polyphonies during his trip to Italy, or Orazio Benevolo’s Missa tu es petrus, for four choirs, recently resurrected by Les Métaboles. Composed on the same principle of spatialization, Love by Juta Pranulyte will echo them.

Created in 1930, the Symphony of Psalms testifies to Stravinsky's fervent return to religion. Unclassifiable, “this prayer that bites, this prayer of steel” as Leonard Bernstein described it, completes a fresco of piety of great evocative force, like a wall of icons sculpted in the harmony of an alliance with summit between Les Métaboles and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Concert of restitution of the compositions of the students of the Academy

Concert of restitution of the compositions of the students of the Academy

Concert at Modern Art Museum

Les Métaboles - Luciano Berio, Sequenza 3 - for solo voice Émilie Husson
Multilatérale - Anne Castex, Automate III - for solo harp Aurélie Saraf
Les Métaboles - Tom Johnson, Counting duets - for two voices Laura Muller & Paul-Alexandre Dubois
Multilatérale - Bernhard Gander, Soaring souls - pour cello and bass
Les Métaboles - Marc-André Dalbavie, Ligne de fuite -for solo voice Marco Van Baaren
Multilatérale - Johannes Maria Staud, Sydenham Music - for harp, alto, flute
Les Métaboles - Murray Schafer, Magic songs - for six voices

Opening concert
Multilatérale - Agustin Castellon Molina, Creation
Les Métaboles - Haas, 3 liebes gedichte
Multilatérale - Sarah Nemtsov, Verlassene Orte / Berlin 
Les Métaboles - Pascal Dusapin, Semino
Multilatérale - Bruno Mantovani, Chamber concerto n°2
Mozarteum - Henry Fourès, Sommerbericht - pour 6 percussionnistes

A program around melodies from France, America and Germany, some very well known, others more rare...

Meredith Monk Night fall ; Eric Whitacre Waternight ; Philip Glass Three songs for a cappella choir ; Camille Saint-Saens Calme des Nuits ; Gabriel Fauré, Alexander L’Estrange (arrgment) Après un rêve ; Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Brice Légée (arrgment): Clairs de Lune ; Claude Debussy, Trois chanson ; Franz Schubert, Christophe Looten (arrgment): Erlkönig ; Camille Saint-Saens , Thibaut Perrine (Arrgment) Danse macabre

32 chanteurs, l'Orchestre d'harmonie de Tonnerre, le choeur du Tonnerrois et la Maîtrise de Dijon pour un concert réunissant des oeuvres d'Offenbach, Sibelius, Grieg, Verdi, Bregovic, Gimenez....

A program around melodies from France, America and Germany, some very well known, others more rare...

Meredith Monk Night fall ; Eric Whitacre Waternight ; Philip Glass Three songs pour choeur a cappella ; Camille Saint-Saens Calme des Nuits ; Gabriel Fauré, Alexander L’Estrange (arrgment) Après un rêve ; Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Brice Légée (arrgment): Clairs de Lune ; Claude Debussy, Trois chanson ; Franz Schubert, Christophe Looten (arrgment): Erlkönig ; Camille Saint-Saens , Thibaut Perrine (Arrgment) Danse macabre

32 singers, the Tonnerre Harmony Orchestra and Choeur du Tonnerrois for a “concert of nations” with, among others, Finlandia (Sibelius), Jérusalem (Hubert Parry), America (Bernstein), Va pensiero (Verdi)

Grand concert avec l'Orchestre de chambre de Paris à l'occasion de la Fête de la musique 

The opening night of the ManiFeste festival constitutes an immense montage, a whirlwind that spreads from the image to the music. The young Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen has designed an ultra-virtuoso collage where the orchestra, the jazz band and the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles present in the room play with a series of living archives – a deep and hilarious journey into our own musical memory. The Summer Playlist includes and wide-ranging, up to Ravel’s La Valse, danced on the rooftops of Brussels by Thomas Hauert’s company. Aerobatics and whirling, a summer playlist, where the eye listens.

Transmitting the passion for choral singing in primary schools over a long period of time with:

• collective practice in class each week accompanied by guest musicians and/or singers from the Ensemble Métaboles training
• open to teachers, in order to find the self-confidence to implement their artistic desires and share effective tools of transmission,
• tutoring, for tailor-made support in the autonomy of teachers.

Transmitting the passion for choral singing in primary schools over a long period of time with:

• collective practice in class each week accompanied by guest musicians and/or singers from the Ensemble Métaboles training
• open to teachers, in order to find the self-confidence to implement their artistic desires and share effective tools of transmission,
• tutoring, for tailor-made support in the autonomy of teachers.

Les Métaboles and Léo Warynski shine the spotlight on the repertoire for multiple choirs. The principle of writing separate choirs experienced its Baroque golden age under the vaults of the Sistine Chapel – witness Allegri’s Miserere for two choirs, the sacred works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who admired these polyphonies during his trip to Italy, or Orazio Benevolo’s Missa tu es petrus, for four choirs, recently resurrected by Les Métaboles. Composed on the same principle of spatialization, Love by Juta Pranulyte will echo them.

Les Métaboles and the cellist Marc Coppey, offer a program under the sign of metamorphosis.
Some works are transformed, such as a Chaconne by Bach and Agnus Dei by Barber, transcribed for cello and choir. Others translate the metamorphosis musically, such as the eponymous work by Philippe Hersant inspired by the four seasons or the creation of the Japanese composer Noriko Baba. The ultimate change of state, that of passing from life to death, is explored in John Tavener's Svyati.

A portrait of Luigi Nono with two great works by the Italian composer:
Quando stanno morendo / Diario polacco Nr. 2  pour voix de femmes, flûte, violoncelle et électronique live
Hay que caminar soñando pour deux violons

Excerpts from works by Bizet, Beethoven, Rossini et Verdi

Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Les Métaboles, Chœur de la Maîtrise de Paris 
Alfonso Todisco, conductor
Iris Thion-Poncet, choir conductor

Is there any prayer sweeter and more sublime than Fauré's Requiem, is there any melody more sweet than Jean Racine's Cantique? In Les Djinns, based on Victor Hugo’s virtuoso poem, the composer on the contrary unleashes the most frightening hordes. But it is indeed the most tender Fauré that we find in the two other pieces: the melancholy Pavane, to which the dandy Robert de Montesquiou, cousin of the dedicatee, offered delicately old-fashioned verses, and the concert suite taken from the incidental music for Pelléas et Mélisande, the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, with the famous “Sicilienne”.

The Christmas concert with La Cité de la Voix, this year at the Halle de Gray (Haute-Saône)

Everything sings at Ravel's: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano from Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to the twirling but very short Trois chansons. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma mère d'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and Pavane pour une infante défunte

The Singing Ravel tour is supported by Adami and Private Copying.

When Paths Meet is a rare musical dialogue across the boundaries of cultures and time. Sami Yusuf presents new works written especially for this unique project with the Philharmonie de Paris. His ensemble of musicians from the Middle East, Central Asia and China, the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles and the Orchester Scoring de Paris accompany him on this odyssey.

When Paths Meet is a rare musical dialogue across the boundaries of cultures and time. Sami Yusuf presents new works written especially for this unique project with the Philharmonie de Paris. His ensemble of musicians from the Middle East, Central Asia and China, the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles and the Orchester Scoring de Paris accompany him on this odyssey.

Dear Pierre-Yves Macé,
the writing is willingly a palimpsest, the rewriting, incessantly, of what is already written, for the pleasure of it, to go through the forms again and disturb the lines, to arrange their sequences differently. This concert thus invites us to a few miniatures, a tribute to brevity even in the genres of tradition, opera and cantata.

The Angels is the 4th album of the Métaboles. The program combines Jonathan Harvey, a great contemporary English composer, with other illustrious vocal composers.

"To be awake still while the master sleeps." With these words, Gérard Pesson defines transcription. Chiselling irony and distance from the original, he brings life back, not without melancholy, to the imaginary lands of Ravel, Scriabin or Mahler. Listening is modified, illusorily suspended by a memory that is both forgetful and creative.

Directed by Frank Markowitsch, Catherine Fender and Maija Gschwind, Acte J brings together 24 young amateur singers from France, Germany and Switzerland and 12 professionals from the ensembles: Les Métaboles, Basler Madrigalisten and Vokalakademie Freiburg. Beyond an ambitious musical experience, ACTE J is part of an educational approach aimed at participating in the training of amateurs and allowing them to progress in their musical practice.

Directed by Frank Markowitsch,, Catherine Fender and Maija Gschwind, Acte J brings together 24 young amateur singers from France, Germany and Switzerland and 12 professionals from the ensembles: Les Métaboles, Basler Madrigalisten and Vokalakademie Freiburg. Beyond an ambitious musical experience, ACTE J is part of an educational approach aimed at participating in the training of amateurs and allowing them to progress in their musical practice.

From Tallis to Filidei, from Mahler's Adagietto Symphony 5 (transcription by Gérard Pesson) to the impressive Concerto for choir by Schnttke, the ensemble conducted by Léo Warynski reveals the virtuosity, freshness and energy of four major works who rub shoulders, confront each other, inspire each other, all linked by the sublime utopia of a form of excess.

From Tallis to Filidei, from Mahler's Adagietto Symphony 5 (transcription by Gérard Pesson) to the impressive Concerto for choir by Schnttke, the ensemble conducted by Léo Warynski reveals the virtuosity, freshness and energy of four major works who rub shoulders, confront each other, inspire each other, all linked by the sublime utopia of a form of excess.

Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to twirling but very short Trois chansons. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.

The Singing Ravel tour is supported by Adami and Private Copying.

Everything sings at Ravel's: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano from Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to the twirling but very short Trois chansons. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma mère d'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and Pavane pour une infante défunte

The Singing Ravel tour is supported by Adami and Private Copying.

A tour of Europe in 90 minutes

ARCO is a binational composition academy, association between the gmem - Marseille (one of the French national centers of musical creation) and the Universität Mozarteum of Salzburg. This fourth edition will take place in Marseille, from July 9 to 16, and will welcome twelve composers from all over the world, young quartets and young singers. Conferences, workshops and concerts will be organized throughout the week. The student pieces will be created during the closing concerts.

With Multilatérale, les Métaboles and Tana quartet

Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to twirling but very short Trois chansons. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.

La Cité de la Voix, a national center for the vocal arts located in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, has been offering professional training programs for young singers and choir directors for several years. In 2023 and for the third edition, a choir conducting academy is offered in collaboration with the ensemble les Métaboles. The academy will be led by Léo Warynski and Daniel Reuss.

A restitution concert will take place on July 7 at 8:30 p.m. in the Basilica of Vézelay

During a trip to Italy, Marc-Antoine Charpentier observed what in Venice was called the "cori spezzati": the dialogue of vocal groups installed on either side of a church. In this program he works alongside Gregori Allegri and Lithuanian composer Juta Pranulyte. But the centerpiece of this new program is signed Orazio Benevolo, a little-known musician, chapel master at the Vatican from 1646 to 1672. Thanks to the conductor and musicologist Louis Castelain, who patiently copied the score in a Roman library, the Metaboles sing for the first time since the 17th century this four-choir Mass by the Italian composer.

32 singers conducted by Léo Warynski with a program that will bring together many composers: Veljo Tormis, Franz Schubert, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Eric Whitacre and Jacques Offenbach...

The Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer has developed in his music a most singular philosophical approach, his vocal works seeking to establish a spiritual link with Nature, by creating real soundscapes, drawing inspiration for this from Native American culture. The vocal ensemble Les Métaboles excels in the interpretation of this metaphysical repertoire. Completed by a piece by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, this concert is set in motion by choreographer Éric Oberdorff, assuring the public of an extraordinary mystical experience.

Les Métaboles and the cellist Marc Coppey, offer a program under the sign of metamorphosis. Some works are transformed, such as a Chaconne by Bach and Agnus Dei by Barber, transcribed for cello and choir. Others translate the metamorphosis musically, such as the eponymous work by Philippe Hersant inspired by the four seasons or the creation of the Japanese composer Noriko Baba. The ultimate change of state, that of passing from life to death, is explored in John Tavener's Svyati.

Les Métaboles and the cellist Marc Coppey, offer a program under the sign of metamorphosis. Some works are transformed, such as a Chaconne by Bach and Agnus Dei by Barber, transcribed for cello and choir. Others translate the metamorphosis musically, such as the eponymous work by Philippe Hersant inspired by the four seasons or the creation of the Japanese composer Noriko Baba. The ultimate change of state, that of passing from life to death, is explored in John Tavener's Svyati.

A tour of Europe in 90 minutes

This participatory concert is part of the "Week-end amateur, you say?" at the Philharmonie de Paris Rehearsals are planned for the public who wants to participate on Saturdays May 20 and June 3, from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Participants will celebrate the Europe of yesterday and today by practicing Beethoven's Ode to Joy and a traditional Afghan song entitled Biya ke berim ba Mazar.

100 % Chorale Auxerre - restitution in June 2023

Transmitting the passion for choral singing in primary schools over a long period of time with:

• collective practice in class each week accompanied by guest musicians and/or singers from the Ensemble Métaboles training
• open to teachers, in order to find the self-confidence to implement their artistic desires and share effective tools of transmission,
• tutoring, for tailor-made support in the autonomy of teachers.

With Naomi Conquet (alto) and Jean-François Chiama (tenor)

Les Métaboles have the honor of participating in the gala evening of the Philharmonie de Paris, which this year aims to be of a new genre: festive, committed and united, by allowing, among other things, to welcome more than 200 young people. under 28 who have never been to the Philharmonie.

Knee Play 4, Philip Glass (extracts of Einstein on the Beach)
Benjamin Millepied & Caroline Osmont

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, direction

100% chorale à Gray - restitution in May 2023

Transmitting the passion for choral singing in primary schools over a long period of time with:

• collective practice in class each week accompanied by guest musicians and/or singers from the Ensemble Métaboles training,
• open to teachers, in order to find the self-confidence to implement their artistic desires and share effective tools of transmission,
• tutoring, for tailor-made support in the autonomy of teachers.

With Cécile Pierrot (soprano) and Cyrille Lerouge 

As part of the "Modulations", the GMEM concert season, Départ sde feu brings together the Multilaterale ensemble and a singer from Les Métaboles - Laura Muller - in a program directed by Léo Warynski.

Franck Bedrossian - Départs de Feu (2022) ; Edges (2010)
Rebecca Saunders - Bite (2016)
Michael Seltenreich - Ornamentation 2 (2022)
Philippe Leroux - Ma Belle si tu voulais (1997)
Yann Maresz - Entrelacs (1998)

The Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer has developed in his music a most singular philosophical approach, his vocal works seeking to establish a spiritual link with Nature, by creating real soundscapes, drawing inspiration for this from Native American culture. The vocal ensemble Les Métaboles excels in the interpretation of this metaphysical repertoire.

Completed by a piece by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, this concert is set in motion by choreographer Éric Oberdorff, assuring the public of an extraordinary mystical experience.

The Angels is the 4th album of the Métaboles. the program combines Jonathan Harvey, a great contemporary English composer, with other illustrious vocal composers.

Ensemble associated with the Cité de la Voix, les Métaboles record for the CDAC, Documentation Center for Choral Art

The Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer has developed in his music a most singular philosophical approach, his vocal works seeking to establish a spiritual link with Nature, by creating real soundscapes, drawing inspiration for this from Native American culture. The vocal ensemble Les Métaboles excels in the interpretation of this metaphysical repertoire.

Completed by a piece by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, this concert is set in motion by choreographer Éric Oberdorff, assuring the public of an extraordinary mystical experience.

Informations and reservations here

It is by playing on a double reference – a cappella, without instrumental accompaniment and the star Capella, the brightest star in the constellation of the Coachman – that the Métaboles illuminate this end of the year with carols from Europe, South America, the Caribbean or Africa

Informations and reservations here

Two composers, two shattered dreams: by the rigidity of social conventions in the case of Mel Bonis, by illness in that of Lili Boulanger, who died at 24 after a life of suffering. No one today questions their talent. The sensuality and refinement of their scores place them on a par with their contemporary Debussy, the tutelary figure to whom they are so often compared. All this before the jubilation of Gloria by Poulenc, composed "thinking of those frescoes by Gozzoli where the angels stick out their tongues and also of those grave Benedictines that I once saw playing football". An entire program !

Distribution
soprano, Marie Perbost
harp,  Manon Louis
Les Métaboles
Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est
direction, Christian Arming

Programme
Claude Debussy - Danses sacrées et profanes, Première suite d'orchestre
Lili Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps
Mel Bonis - Femmes de légende : Ophélie, Le Songe de Cléopâtre
Francis Poulenc - Gloria

Playing for Philharmonie project brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and the ensemble Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.

Playing for Philharmonie project brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and the ensemble Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.

Playing for Philharmonie project brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and the ensemble Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.

The Sixth Commandment is the name of the new piece by Elzbieta Sikora, a composer born in Poland and living in Paris. This work refers to that of Luigi Nono, Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco No. 2, the two coins commemorating the victims of violence and political injustice.

Les Métaboles and the Multilateral Ensemble in an Italian program for the Festival d'Automne:

Luigi Nono - Quando stanno morendo
Salvatore Sciarrino - Addio case del vento, Canzona di ringraziamento, Cresce veloce un cristallo
Luzzasco Luzzaschi - Non sa che sia dolore, Aura soave di segreti accenti, Io mi son Giovinetta, O dolcezze amarissime d’amore, Diario Polacco

Les Métaboleset l'Ensemble Multilatérale in a Portuguese program:

Emmanuel Nunes - Versus III, Omens II, Minnesang
Vicente Lusitano - Heu me domine
Manuel Cardoso - Introit de la Missa pro defunctis

Everyone sing along with Léo Warynski and Louis Castelain!

During a trip to Italy, Marc-Antoine Charpentier observed what in Venice was called the "cori spezzati": the dialogue of vocal groups installed on either side of a church. In this program he works alongside Gregori Allegri and Lithuanian composer Juta Pranulyte. But the centerpiece of this new program is signed Orazio Benevolo, a little-known musician, chapel master at the Vatican from 1646 to 1672. Thanks to the conductor and musicologist Louis Castelain, who patiently copied the score in a Roman library, the Metaboles sing for the first time since the 17th century this four-choir Mass by the Italian composer.

Reservation here

During a trip to Italy, Marc-Antoine Charpentier observed what in Venice was called the "cori spezzati": the dialogue of vocal groups installed on either side of a church. In this program he works alongside Gregori Allegri and Lithuanian composer Juta Pranulyte. But the centerpiece of this new program is signed Orazio Benevolo, a little-known musician, chapel master at the Vatican from 1646 to 1672. Thanks to the conductor and musicologist Louis Castelain, who patiently copied the score in a Roman library, the Metaboles sing for the first time since the 17th century this four-choir Mass by the Italian composer.

Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of the Water Games or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to twirling but very short Three songs. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.

During a trip to Italy, Marc-Antoine Charpentier observed what in Venice was called the "cori spezzati": the dialogue of vocal groups installed on either side of a church. In this program he works alongside Gregori Allegri and Lithuanian composer Juta Pranulyte. But the centerpiece of this new program is signed Orazio Benevolo, a little-known musician, chapel master at the Vatican from 1646 to 1672. Thanks to the conductor and musicologist Louis Castelain, who patiently copied the score in a Roman library, the Metaboles sing for the first time since the 17th century this four-choir Mass by the Italian composer.

ARCO - art, research and creation, opus 2022 - is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, an association between the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French national centers for musical creation) and French ensembles: Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and the Tana String Quartet.

ARCO - art, research and creation, opus 2022 - is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, an association between the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French national centers for musical creation) and French ensembles: Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and the Tana String Quartet.

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2022 – is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, association between the Mozarteum University Salzbourg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and French ensembles Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and Tana string quartet.

ARCO 2022 will be hosted by Mozarteum University Salzburg.

ARCO - art, research and creation, opus 2022 - is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, an association between the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French national centers for musical creation) and French ensembles: Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and the Tana String Quartet.

Les Métaboles, as a vocal quartet, present Romance du soir, a series of concerts to hear the jewels of a cappella vocal music from the Renaissance to the 20th century.

Les Métaboles, as a vocal quartet, present Romance du soir, a series of concerts to hear the jewels of a cappella vocal music from the Renaissance to the 20th century.

Opera in four acts by Zhou Long, libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs.
Created in 2010 by Opera Boston.

Opéra Comique presents this spectacular and visually powerful production as part of an exceptional partnership with the Beijing Music Festival.

Opera in four acts by Zhou Long, libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs.
Created in 2010 by Opera Boston.

Opéra Comique presents this spectacular and visually powerful production as part of an exceptional partnership with the Beijing Music Festival.

Opera in four acts by Zhou Long, libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs.
Created in 2010 by Opera Boston.

Opéra Comique presents this spectacular and visually powerful production as part of an exceptional partnership with the Beijing Music Festival.

Opera in four acts by Zhou Long, libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs.
Created in 2010 by Opera Boston.

Opéra Comique presents this spectacular and visually powerful production as part of an exceptional partnership with the Beijing Music Festival.

Awaken your students to the poetry of choral singing with this educational program offered by the choir Les Métaboles around nature and sound ecology. Spring rendezvous in an extraordinary garden, crossed by the tunes of George Gershwin, Murray Schafer, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel...

Awaken your students to the poetry of choral singing with this educational program offered by the choir Les Métaboles around nature and sound ecology. Spring rendezvous in an extraordinary garden, crossed by the tunes of George Gershwin, Murray Schafer, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel...

In 1994, Messe un jour ordinaire crossed the vehement and shattering words of mass with that, individual and derisory, of Laurence, a young drug addict who appeared in a documentary by Jean-Michel Carré. 20 years later, Bernard Cavanna rewrites it to reinforce the presence of voice and choir.

Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of the Water Games or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to twirling but very short Three songs. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.

The Angels immerses the listener in the twists and turns of spiritual music. The works of Purcell, Byrd and Palestrina, masters of 17th century polyphonic music, resonate with those of Harvey, a major figure in contemporary music

A lyrical work in two parts by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 on a Teatro alla Scala commission and dedicated to the conductor Claudio Abbado and the pianist Maurizio Pollini

A lyrical work in two parts by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 on a Teatro alla Scala commission and dedicated to the conductor Claudio Abbado and the pianist Maurizio Pollini

A lyrical work in two parts by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 on a Teatro alla Scala commission and dedicated to the conductor Claudio Abbado and the pianist Maurizio Pollini

The Sixth Commandment is the name of the new piece by Elzbieta Sikora, a composer born in Poland and living in Paris. This work refers to that of Luigi Nono, Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco No. 2, the two coins commemorating the victims of violence and political injustice.

A lyrical work in two parts by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 on a Teatro alla Scala commission and dedicated to the conductor Claudio Abbado and the pianist Maurizio Pollini

The organ and the voice are poor relatives in the catalog of Iannis Xenakis, but they are not absent, and have been the subject of the same radical questioning instigated by the Greek composer in other fields.

Les Metaboles
With the participation of amateur choirs
Léo Warynski, conductor

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A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Everything sings at Ravel's: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano from Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to the twirling but very short Three Songs. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma mère d'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and Pavane pour une infante défunte

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After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. The concert will take place at the Halle Verrière of the Meisenthal International Center for Glass Art

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After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation.

The concert will take place at the Saint-Matthieu church in Colmar with the Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. Musical "surges" will take place in solidarity grocery stores and EPHADs in Mulhouse and Colmar

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. The concert will take place at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

The Sixth Commandment is the name of the new piece by Elzbieta Sikora, a composer born in Poland and living in Paris. This work refers to that of Luigi Nono, Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco No. 2, the two coins commemorating the victims of violence and political injustice.

The singers of Métaboles, of the Vokalakademie of Berlin, of Basler Madrigalisten join the 20 young singers recruited specifically for the first edition of Acte J. Close to the rhythm of a professional project, ACTE J is a musical challenge for these young German singers , Swiss and French in search of ambitious choral experience. A program of French and German choral music will be honored during this first edition coordinated by Cadence.

Frank Markowitsch (Germany), conductor
Catherine Fender (France) & Abélia Nordmann (Switzerland), Associate Chiefs

The singers of Métaboles, of the Vokalakademie of Berlin, of Basler Madrigalisten join the 20 young singers recruited specifically for the first edition of Acte J. Close to the rhythm of a professional project, ACTE J is a musical challenge for these young German singers , Swiss and French in search of ambitious choral experience. A program of French and German choral music will be honored during this first edition coordinated by Cadence.

Frank Markowitsch (Germany), conductor
Catherine Fender (France) & Abélia Nordmann (Switzerland), Associate Chiefs

Une femme rentre chez elle. Elle se met à l’aise, se sert un verre à boire, se prépare à manger. Bientôt, son discours, comme un flux de pensée, révèle des failles d’où jaillissent des images, des souvenirs. Elle se rend compte, et le public avec elle, qu’elle est sous le choc : elle vient d’avoir un accident de voiture... 

Liebeslieder Walzer - Johannes Brahms

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Métaboles
Yoan Héreau et Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, direction musicale

La Chine à portée de voix is an event weekend dedicated to the discovery of Chinese culture: for two days, visitors to the MNAAG will be able to discover or rediscover the spaces of the museum to the sound of the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles.

La Chine à portée de voix is an event weekend dedicated to the discovery of Chinese culture : for two days, visitors to the MNAAG will be able to discover or rediscover the spaces of the museum to the sound of the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles.

A woman comes home. She gets comfortable, helps herself a glass to drink, gets ready to eat. Soon, his speech, like a flow of thought, reveals loopholes from which images, memories spring up. She realizes, and the audience with her, that she is in shock: she has just had a car accident ...

At the initiative of the Royaumont Foundation, les Métaboles and l'Orchestre régional de Normandie will perform an original musical program that brings together Camille Saint-Saëns and the young French composer Basile Chassaing, winner in 2019 of the Académie Voix Nouvelles de la Royaumont Foundation. Entitled “Oratorios”, this project combines a contemporary creation and a major work from the repertoire according to the same theme.

Les Métaboles
L'Orchestre régional de Normandie
Léo Waryski, direction

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Métaboles
Yoan Héreau et Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, musical direction

A woman comes home. She gets comfortable, helps herself a glass to drink, gets ready to eat. Soon, his speech, like a flow of thought, reveals loopholes from which images, memories spring up. She realizes, and the audience with her, that she is in shock: she has just had a car accident ...

At the initiative of the Royaumont Foundation, les Métaboles and l'Orchestre régional de Normandie will perform an original musical program that brings together Camille Saint-Saëns and the young French composer Basile Chassaing, winner in 2019 of the Académie Voix Nouvelles de la Royaumont Foundation. Entitled “Oratorios”, this project combines a contemporary creation and a major work from the repertoire according to the same theme.

Les Métaboles
L'Orchestre régional de Normandie
Léo Waryski, direction

Les Métaboles return to the Strasbourg Musica Festival with a program around the Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer

Les Métaboles return to the Strasbourg Musica Festival with a program around the Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer

The opening concert for the 2021-2022 season highlights the masterpieces of great French artists, Camille Saint-Saens, Reynaldo Hahn and Claude Debussy. To these composers is added Édith Canat de Chizy with Apocalypsis, a world creation for choir and orchestra.

This powerful work, commissioned to mark the 800th anniversary of Metz Cathedral, will resonate with force in the Great Hall of the Arsenal.

At the initiative of the Royaumont Foundation, les Métaboles and l'Orchestre régional de Normandie will perform an original musical program that brings together Camille Saint-Saëns and the young French composer Basile Chassaing, winner in 2019 of the Académie Voix Nouvelles de la Royaumont Foundation. Entitled “Oratorios”, this project combines a contemporary creation and a major work from the repertoire according to the same theme.

Les Métaboles
L'Orchestre régional de Normandie
Léo Waryski, direction

The Angels is the 4th album of the Métaboles. the program combines Jonathan Harvey, a great contemporary English composer, with other illustrious vocal composers.

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De grandes pages de la musique vocale de Maurice Ravel ainsi que des transcriptions dont celles, spécifiquement faites par Thibault Perrine pour les Métaboles, Le Boléro et La Pavane pour une Infante défunte.

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From the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with composer Dimitri Tchesnokov was born the Mysterious Nativity program, composed of works of works from the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly Russian. A program in the image of the Métaboles, which defends the choral repertoire.

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

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A program of great arias for choir and orchestra: Requiem, Mozart ; Magnificat, Bach; Pavane, Fauré; Nabucco, Verdi ...

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ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2021 – is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, association between the Mozarteum University Salzbourg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and French ensembles Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and Tana string quartet.

ARCO 2021 will be hosted by Gmem-CNCM-Marseille.

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2021 – is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, association between the Mozarteum University Salzbourg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and French ensembles Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and Tana string quartet.

ARCO 2021 will be hosted by Gmem-CNCM-Marseille.

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2021 – is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, association between the Mozarteum University Salzbourg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and French ensembles Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and Tana string quartet.

ARCO 2021 will be hosted by Gmem-CNCM-Marseille.

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2021 – is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, association between the Mozarteum University Salzbourg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and French ensembles Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and Tana string quartet.

ARCO 2021 will be hosted by Gmem-CNCM-Marseille.

Le projet Playing for Philharmonie réunit, aux côtés de l’Orchestre Les Siècles et de l'ensemble les Métaboles, des instrumentistes et choristes amateurs de la Société générale, qui prépare le programme tout au long de l'année.

Playing for Philharmonie is a project who brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.

From the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with composer Dimitri Tchesnokov was born the Mysterious Nativity program, composed of works of works from the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly Russian. A program in the image of the Métaboles, which defends the choral repertoire.

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Beethoven had already wanted his Hymn to Joy as a call to universal brotherhood. Europe has adopted this hymn, embodied here by association and corporate choirs uniting for a vast tour of Europe including the refugees, who are also part of the community.

Léo Warynski, conductor
Sophie Boucheron, choir director

Festival ManiFeste-2021de l'IRCAM

Avec

Fanny Vicens, accordion
Remi Jousselme, guitar
Frédéric Baldassare, cello
Guilhem Terrail, countertenor

Les Métaboles
Anne-Claire Baconnais, soprano ; Aurélie Bouglé, mezzo ; Laura Muller, alto ; Steve Zheng, ténor ; Vincent Bouchot, baryton ; René Ramos-Premier, basse

Léo Warynski ,direction

Oren Boneh, Augustin Muller, Gilbert Nouno, Roque Rivas informatic musical realisation musicale Ircam

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Liebeslieder Walzer - Johannes Brahms

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Métaboles
Yoan Héreau et Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, musical direction

A program around nature and sound ecology with classes from the city of Gonesse.
Murray Schafer, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, des musique populaire arrangée par Brice Léger, Charles Trenet...

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

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Yann Robin and Yannick Haenel, with the help of Arthur Nauzyciel, imagined a unique monodrama, an unidentified operatic object with 27 artists on stage. Embodying the young woman, Élise Chauvin is an actress-singer, her voice is a throbbing and panting breath. Singing is the realm of the Choir which, completed by ensemble and electronics, acts as a guide to death, based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Bardo THöd (r) ol which means "the great guide by listening in intermediate states ”.

The Angels, immerses the listener in the twists and turns of spiritual music. The works of Purcell, Byrd and Palestrina resonate with those of Harvey, a major figure in contemporary music. Under the leadership of Léo Warynski, les Métaboles revive the splendid tradition of English choirs: from Winchester to the refectory of the monks of Royaumont, where the album was recorded, the Gothic walls of the abbeys welcome sumptuous music, magnified by the acoustics. .

An opéra by Yann Robin and Yannick Haenel, with Elise Chauvin, actress-singer
Ensemble Multilatérale
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Métaboles
Yoan Héreau et Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, direction musicale

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A key player in today's repertoire, the Ensemble Intercontemporain shares the poster with the Métaboles on this program. This is not the first time that Léo Warynski has taken the helm of the Ensemble intercontemporain: their collaboration began in 2016. Faithful to the eclecticism which is one of his trademarks, Léo Warynski slips the Stabat Mater of Palestrina in an evening clearly oriented towards contemporary music, which completes Boulez's Cummings ist der Dichter with two creations by François Meïmoun and Francesco Filidei

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Un opéra by Yann Robin and Yannick Haenel, with Elise Chauvin, actress-singer
Ensemble Multilatérale
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

With the Les Siècles et les Métaboles orchestra, 380 amateur instrumentalists and choristers - all employees of the Société Générale Group in France and other countries - meet under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, one of the most talented conductors of his generation.

Information et réservation on Philharmonie website

Le jardin féérique is an a cappella program - Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Britten and Schafer - in which nature is alternately harmonic or fantastic garden, place of contemplation or reflection, or simply a soundscape.

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Metaboles
Yoan Héreau and Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Information and reservation on the Cite musicale de Metz website

From the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with composer Dimitri Tchesnokov was born the Mysterious Nativity program, composed of works of works from the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly Russian. A program in the image of the Métaboles, which defends the choral repertoire.

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Metaboles
Yoan Héreau and Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Information and reservation on Musée Würth website

Through the centuries, Léo Warynski unearths relatives, emphasizes family tunes, in a long line of composers touched by grace. Rameau, offers an address to heaven, a five-part motet rarely given because cleverly concealed in his Treaty of Harmony. Marc-Antoine Charpentier - who was able to observe during a trip to Italy what in Venice was called the "cori spezzati": the dialogue of vocal groups installed on either side of a church - delivers a sumptuous Salve Regina with three choirs. But the centerpiece of this new program is signed Orazio Benevolo, a little-known musician, chapel master at the Vatican from 1646 to 1672. Thanks to the conductor and musicologist Louis Castelain, who patiently copied the score in a Roman library, the Metaboles sing for the first time since the 17th century this four-choir Mass by the Italian composer. A novel, in a way, which parallels the one written by the very young Lithuanian composer Juta Pranulyte.

Information and reservation on Royaumont website

Liebeslieder Walzer - Johannes Brahms

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Métaboles
Yoan Héreau et Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, musical direction

The 38th edition of Musica opens with a large concert in the monumental setting of the Rhine Hall of the Palais de la musique et des congrès - a 3,000 m2 space to make distancing unnecessary and reinstate the necessary sharing of listening. One watchword: deconstruct the ritual of the concert to nurture new listening experiences.

First part
Ryoji Ikeda, Anna Korsum, Simon Steen-Andersen

Second part
Stimmung - Karlheinz Stockhausen
Les Métaboles
Raphaëlle Kennedy, soprano et Amandine Trenc, mezzo-soprano
Pauline Leroy, alto
Steve Zheng et Randol Rodriguez, tenor
Geoffroy Buffière, bass
SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO Freiburg, electronic
Léo Warynski, musical direction

A bewitching program on the theme of the nativity, where meditation and spirituality inhabit Russian and Baltic composers in their sensitive approach to sacred texts. A moment of striking choral music.

Website Les Musicales de Quimper

Program

Vivaldi, Gloria (RV 589)
Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine
Mozart, Ave Verum

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

A vocal quartet program inspired by the Metaboles's latest album, Jardin féérique ...

A vocal quartet program inspired by the Metaboles's latest album, Jardin féérique ...

A vocal quartet program inspired by the Metaboles's latest album, Jardin féérique ...

In 2020, the Franco-Austrian university of composition will take place in Salzburg.

Fenêtre sur cour(s)

From July 6 to 10, under the leadership of Léo Warynski, young choir conductors will have had the chance to conduct one of the best current vocal ensembles : les Métaboles, ensemble in residence at Royaumont (2019-2021).
The session will have allowed to approach the technique of choir direction, the specificities of interpretation of each of the repertories worked, as well as the challenges of the artistic direction of a choir. Sessions of musicological analysis have been planned with Louis Castelain (CMBV).

The young conductors will also have benefited from the advice of Philippe Hersant during an exceptional rehearsal in his presence.

On July 10, Fenêtre sur cour(s)] will be an opportunity for the laureates to direct several works worked during the session.

After Mysterious Nativity "A very beautiful disc to recommend to our listeners" (France Musique) and Une nuit americaine "One of the best French choirs", (Resmusica) the new Metaboles Jardin féérique disc is out in March. The release concert will take place on March 28 in Notre-Dame-du-Liban. The Fairy Garden is an a cappella program - Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Britten and Schafer - in which nature is alternately harmonic or fantastic garden, place of contemplation or reflection, or simply a soundscape.

Léo Warynski, musical direction

A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Website Staatstheater Mainz 

Œuvre lyrique en deux parties du compositeur italien Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d’amore a été composé en 1974 sur une commande Teatro alla Scala et dédiée au chef d'orchestre Claudio Abbado ainsi qu'au pianiste Maurizio Pollini

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A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Website Staatstheater Mainz 

A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Website Staatstheater Mainz 

A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Website Staatstheater Mainz 

Léo Warynski and the Métaboles take you to their magical garden !

After Mysterious Nativity "A very beautiful disc to recommend to our listeners" (France Musique)
and Une nuit americaine "One of the best French choirs", (Resmusica)
the new disc Jardin féérique disc is out in March.

The release party will take place on March 28 at the Cathedrale Notre-Dame du Liban. le Jardin féérique is an a cappella program - Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Britten and Schafer - in which nature is alternately harmonic or fantastic garden, place of contemplation or reflection, or simply a soundscape.
The a cappella vocal writing of the composers recorded on this disc reveals, by their precision and their attention to detail, that they were also great orchestrators.
The Métaboles and their conductor, Léo Warynski, paid particular attention to the intelligibility and expressiveness of the voices, but also to the restitution of this orchestral dimension by means of all the dynamic palette that a choir can offer: the almost whispered piano at the strongest the widest and most intense.

Les métaboles
Leo Warynski, musical direction

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A lyric work in two parts by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 on a commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to the conductor Claudio Abbado and the pianist Maurizio Pollini

Website Staatstheater Mainz 

Coming home one night straight after a car accident, a woman feels her memory coming back to the edge of her consciousness and remembers all the fragments that make up what one calls the self: the happy times and the bereavements, the emotions and the memories imbued with eroticism, the dark thoughts, the people close to her, her emotions when faced with art…

Like a stream of consciousness, Papillon Noir is sung in a continuous yet halting breath by the soprano Elise Chauvin. Punctuated by the echoes of the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Papillon Noir is an operatic monodrama, for voice, instrumental ensemble, choir and electronic devices, that creates a dialogue between music and text, awakening and forgetting, the secular and the sacred.

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Yann Robin, music
Yannick Haenel, libretto
Arthur Nauzyciel, spatial installation

Elise Chauvin, singer
gnem, live electronics
Léo Warynski, musical direction

A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Website Staatstheater Mainz 

The ancient melody composed at the beginning of the 17th century by Michael Praetorius, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, finds an echo in the recent version by Jan Sandström with a double choir. This show is also an opportunity to reconnect with major works of the German choral tradition for Christmas, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Distler, Max Reger, and Christmas folk songs, Leise rieselt der Schnee, Stille Nacht, O Tannenbaum…

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The ancient melody composed at the beginning of the 17th century by Michael Praetorius, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, finds an echo in the recent version by Jan Sandström with a double choir. This show is also an opportunity to reconnect with major works of the German choral tradition for Christmas, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Distler, Max Reger, and Christmas folk songs, Leise rieselt der Schnee, Stille Nacht, O Tannenbaum…

Entry without reservation

More information here

The ancient melody composed at the beginning of the 17th century by Michael Praetorius, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, finds an echo in the recent version by Jan Sandström with a double choir. This show is also an opportunity to reconnect with major works of the German choral tradition for Christmas, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Distler, Max Reger, and Christmas folk songs, Leise rieselt der Schnee, Stille Nacht, O Tannenbaum…

Entry without reservation

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BACH THE NORDIC !

The Bach family is the most prolific family of musicians in history, with the most famous personality of all being Johann Sebastian Bach, undisputed genius with universal recognition. Twelve singers from the ensemble Les Métaboles join the twelve string musicians of the Orchester de Normandie on stage to form twelve "voice-instrument pairs". They give a tribute to Bach's composers who followed him, such as Mendelssohn and Nystedt.

Jean-Sebastien BACH (1685-1750) Jesu meine Freude BWV 227 / Opening Choral

Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Cantate Jesu meine Freude
Cantate Wer nur den Liebengott lässt wahlten

Johann-Michael BACH (1648-1694) Halt, was du hast

Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite op.40
Ave maris Stella

Linda LEIMANE (born in 1989) 56 Days 

Knut NYSTEDT (1915-2014) Immortal Bach op. 153b

Léo WARYNSKI, conductor

Les Métaboles and the musicians of l'Orchestre régional de Normandie

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BACH THE NORDIC !

The Bach family is the most prolific family of musicians in history, with the most famous personality of all being Johann Sebastian Bach, undisputed genius with universal recognition. Twelve singers from the ensemble Les Métaboles join the twelve string musicians of the Orchester de Normandie on stage to form twelve "voice-instrument pairs". They give a tribute to Bach's composers who followed him, such as Mendelssohn and Nystedt.

Jean-Sebastien BACH (1685-1750) Jesu meine Freude BWV 227 / Opening Choral

Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Cantate Jesu meine Freude
Cantate Wer nur den Liebengott lässt wahlten

Johann-Michael BACH (1648-1694) Halt, was du hast

Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite op.40
Ave maris Stella

Linda LEIMANE (born in 1989) 56 Days 

Knut NYSTEDT (1915-2014) Immortal Bach op. 153b

Léo WARYNSKI, conductor

Denis COMTET, conductor (for the Mesnière en Bray concert)

Les Métaboles and the musicians of l'Orchestre régional de Normandie

reservations here

BACH THE NORDIC! The Bach family is the most prolific family of musicians in history, with the most famous personality of all being Johann Sebastian Bach, undisputed genius with universal recognition. Twelve singers from the ensemble Les Métaboles join the twelve string musicians of the Orchester de Normandie on stage to form twelve "voice-instrument pairs". They give a tribute to Bach's composers who followed him, such as Mendelssohn and Nystedt.

Jean-Sebastien BACH (1685-1750) Jesu meine Freude BWV 227 / Opening Choral

Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Cantate Jesu meine Freude
Cantate Wer nur den Liebengott lässt wahlten

Johann-Michael BACH (1648-1694) Halt, was du hast

Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite op.40
Ave maris Stella

Linda LEIMANE (born in 1989) 56 Days 

Knut NYSTEDT (1915-2014) Immortal Bach op. 153b

Léo WARYNSKI, conductor

Denis COMTET, conductor (for the Mesnière en Bray concert)

Les Métaboles and the musicians of l'orchestre régional de Normandie

Concert Hersant - Charpentier

Les Métaboles (16 singers)
Organ : Denis Comtet
Viola da gamba : Juliette Guignard

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Concert film
Tim Burton : movie and Danny Elfman : music

Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Vocal ensemble Metaboles
John Mauceri, musical direction

More than thirty years ago, Tim Burton offered composer Danny Elfman the first opportunity to write a score: it was the time of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Both lovers of independent rock and horror films, the two creators have forged a common aesthetic. Since then, Elfman and Burton have worked together on more than a dozen feature films. Alice in Wonderland is without a doubt one of their most successful projects: the orchestration, at once luminous, strange and frightening, serves the characters imagined by Tim Burton.

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The Metaboles, Mivos Quatuor, Florentin Ginot, double bass
Leo Warynski, musical direction

Fourteen composers constitute the international group of young composers trained at Royaumont each year under the direction of two professors, then joined by professional interpreters. Edition 2019: Franck Bedrossian and Simon Steen-Andersen (composers), Les Métaboles, the Mivos quartet and Florentin Ginot on bass.

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A program that celebrates American vocal music of the XX and XXI century, through emblematic composers of the great choral tradition of the Atlantic. Barber - his famous Agnus Dei, but also The Reincarnations, song cycle on Irish poems - Copland - major representative of his generation, and author of an important choral work - or more recently Eric Whitacre, young composer whose reputation has long since crossed the borders of the United States.

A program that honours American vocal music from the 20th and 21st centuries with emblematic composers from that country’s great choral tradition. Whether it’s Barber – and his famous Agnus Dei, but also his The Reincarnations, a cycle of songs based on Irish poems – Copland – a major figure of his generation, and author of an important body of choral works – or more recently Eric Whitacre, a young composer whose reputation has long spread beyond the borders of the United States.

To accompany this musical program, Quentin Bisch has imagined a cycle of four fragrances that lead the audience from dusk to dawn.

Olfactory concert

The program of the record Mysterious Nativity was born from the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with the composer Dimitri Tchesnokov. Released in 2014 with Brilliant Classics it’s at the origin of this concert.

A program that honours American vocal music from the 20th and 21st centuries with emblematic composers from that country’s great choral tradition. Whether it’s Barber – and his famous Agnus Dei, but also his The Reincarnations, a cycle of songs based on Irish poems – Copland – a major figure of his generation, and author of an important body of choral works – or more recently Eric Whitacre, a young composer whose reputation has long spread beyond the borders of the United States.

To accompany this musical program, Quentin Bisch has imagined a cycle of four fragrances that lead the audience from dusk to dawn.

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2019 – is a binational university of composition, association between the Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and the Mozarteum University Salzbourg.

Hosted by the Gmem, this first edition will welcome in Marseille, from July 5th to 14th, twelve composers from all over the world. Throughout the week seminars, workshops and concerts will be given. Written for the occasion, the students’ pieces will be rehearsed, performed and professionnaly recorded during two closing concerts.

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Avec les Métaboles, le Quatuor Tana et l'Ensemble Multilatérale

After the success of the first edition, here is finally at the Theater, the second opus of the Atelier des 200.
For this edition, four renowned artists: directors Caroline Binder and Frédéric Sonntag, choreographer Pierre Rigal and singers from Ensemble Les Métaboles will host the various workshops offered during the two days. This one-of-a-kind event creates an ideal energy for trying out the game, experiencing collective expression and experiencing an incredible artistic and human adventure. From 15 years old.

Guerre et paix
Les Métaboles
Musical direction : Léo Warynski
Marc Coppey, cello
With a college class - Victor Hugo de Colmar (25 college students)

At 16h, workshop open to the public : come and prepare for your participation in the concert !

Dimitri Tchesnokov : Cantate de la paix (creation)
Ludwig van Beethoven : Hymne à la joie, extrait de la symphonie n°9 (adaptation)*
By the waters of Babylon (canon)*
Maurice Ravel : Trois chansons pour chœur à quatre voix
Chants militaires : Dans les tranchées de Lagny et La Strasbourgeoise (arrangements Brice Légée)
Anton Bruckner : Locus iste
Felix Mendelssohn : Herr, nun lassest du deinen Diener pour choeur et solistes
John Tavener : Svyati pour violoncelle et choeur
Philippe Hersant : Métamorphoses pour violoncelle et choeur

(*) participatory works

At this concert, the Metaboles will share the stage with Aedès (vocal ensemble) and la Maîtrise de l'Opéra comique.

Raymond Murray Schaffer, Miniwanka 
Johannes Brahms, Waldesnacht
Ēriks Ešenvalds, Stars
Georges Bizet, Habanera

Les Métaboles : 

Camille Saint Saëns : Calme des Nuits, Des pas dans l’allée
Maurice Ravel/Machuel : Le Jardin Féérique
Raymond Murray Schaffer : Magic songs 1, 3 et 9

Music : Georges Aperghis, John Cage, Pascal Dusapin, Morton Feldman, Phil Glass, Clément Janequin, Oliver Knussen, Vytautas Miskinis, Zad Moultaka, Maurice Ravel, Rebecca Saunders, Murray Schafer, Eric Whitacre…
Performances, participatory choir

Coordination and staging : Antoine Gindt, assist by d'Élodie Brémaud

With :
Les Métaboles, direction Léo Warynski
Les Ballets confidentiels (Richard Dubelski, Johanne Saunier, Eléonore Lemaire)
Eric Houzelot, actor
Students of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs

coproduction : T&M-Paris, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Métaboles, ENSA

Messe un jour ordinaire (Mass an ordinary day) revolves mainly around two texts: the ritual of Mass and the insignificant words of Laurence, a young woman adrift, an ordinary addict, who has now passed away, from a filmed document by Jean-Michel Carré, « Galère de femmes ». The two are confronted: the emphatic, dramatic, self-assured collective speech and the individual, modest, minimal, human and insignificant speech.

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.

During her most recent concerts in Lyon, in particular at the Chapelle de la Trinité, Yaël Naïm celebrated the subtle melding of her songs with the strings of the Quatuor Debussy. This time the singer focuses on the voice, the central element of her writing.

Over time, in her albums, Yaël Naïm has orchestrated many choirs: gospel style, children’s choirs, or the trio 3somesisters. This time, in keeping with this approach, it’s with the a capella vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, whose performances range from Puccini to Pink Floyd, from Bach to Debussy, that she will deliver a superb selection of original songs spiced up with some classics.

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Transposition for the stage of 200 Motels, a hallucinatory film by Frank Zappa recording the life of a rock band on tour, 200 Motels - The Suites is an impressive musical/theatrical fresco, premiered in France.

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
The Headshakers
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Léo Warynski’s Les Métaboles decide to work, for the first time, with the score of the Italian Master.

If Aeschylus is to be believed, Io met Prometheus, in chains, while she was wandering aimlessly to escape from Hera’s vengeful jealousy. To craft the libretto of Io, frammento da Prometeo, Massimo Cacciari uses fragments of this drama, which he intertwines with excerpts from Hölderlin’s Song of destiny.
But when Luigi Nono seizes upon the textual matter, he rids it of all narrative intention and exploits its acoustic potential, considering that “in music, only sounds can speak”.

Les Métaboles
Solists of Multilatérale
Experimentalstudio des SWR
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Transposition for the stage of 200 Motels, a hallucinatory film by Frank Zappa recording the life of a rock band on tour, 200 Motels - The Suites is an impressive musical/theatrical fresco, premiered in France.

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
The Headshakers
Léo Warynski, musical direction

This show for 8 singers and electronic devices immerses us in the unique soundscape of the garden of Royaumont and questions the way we move, understand, communicate and exchange there. Inspired by the poem in Latin by the epicurean Titus Lucretius Carus, Se Rerum Natura, the work surrounds the audience with a whirlwind of sounds for an immersive concert experience, an experience of expression and understanding for the performers, of listening for the audience.

This show for 8 singers and electronic devices immerses us in the unique soundscape of the garden of Royaumont and questions the way we move, understand, communicate and exchange there. Inspired by the poem in Latin by the epicurean Titus Lucretius Carus, Se Rerum Natura, the work surrounds the audience with a whirlwind of sounds for an immersive concert experience, an experience of expression and understanding for the performers, of listening for the audience.

This program is conceived like a walk in nature, forests, and gardens. The works sometimes evoke an enchanted forest (La Ronde or Le Jardin Féerique by Ravel), then animals (le Chant des Oiseaux by Janequin), or flowers (Flower Songs by Britten). The music of Murray Schafer (A Garden of Bells, The Spirit Garden) and Diana Soh (Nature of Things, a commission for Les Métaboles), develops the idea of an soundscape: a fascinating combination of vocal movements, percussions, onomatopoeia, evocations of rituals that reveal the metaphysical dimension of the relationship between man and nature.

Les Métaboles (16 to 24 singers)
Léo Warynski, musical direction

60 choir members will perform well-known opera works, including excerpts from West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein), Carmen (Georges Bizet), The Tales of Hofmann, (Jacques Offenbach), Nabucco, La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi) or Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini).

Les Métaboles
The choir Polymnie

The 2018 Prix Liliane Bettencourt for choral singing (bestowed in partnership with the Académie des Beaux-Arts) was awarded to the choir Les Métaboles, created in 2010 by Léo Warynski, dedicated to the repertoire for a capella choirs of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The 2018 Prix Liliane Bettencourt for choral singing (bestowed in partnership with the Académie des Beaux-Arts) was awarded to the choir Les Métaboles, created in 2010 by Léo Warynski, dedicated to the repertoire for a capella choirs of the 20th and 21st centuries.

This original project was born from a shared desire of the Ensemble Multilatérale and the Orchestre National de Jazz to come together for a singular creation, at the crossroads, with one unique and ambitious goal: the quest for the extraordinary. Long-time fellow traveller of Multilatérale, upholder of the concept of saturation, which also resonates strongly with the musical orientations of the ONF, Raphaël Cendo is the driving force behind this collaboration.

Olfactory concert

The program of the record Mysterious Nativity was born from the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with the composer Dimitri Tchesnokov. Released in 2014 with Brilliant Classics it’s at the origin of this concert.

Works by Nystedt, Poulenc, Tchesnokov, Schnittke, Britten, Copland...

Les Métaboles (16 singers)
Chœur de chambre du Conservatoire de Colmar, direction Catherine Fender and the students of the choir direction class
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Coming home one night straight after a car accident, a woman feels her memory coming back to the edge of her consciousness and remembers all the fragments that make up what one calls the self: the happy times and the bereavements, the emotions and the memories imbued with eroticism, the dark thoughts, the people close to her, her emotions when faced with art…

Like a stream of consciousness, Papillon Noir is sung in a continuous yet halting breath by the soprano Elise Chauvin. Punctuated by the echoes of the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Papillon Noir is an operatic monodrama, for voice, instrumental ensemble, choir and electronic devices, that creates a dialogue between music and text, awakening and forgetting, the secular and the sacred.

Yann Robin, music
Yannick Haenel, libretto
Arthur Nauzyciel, spatial installation

Elise Chauvin, actor - singer
gnem, live electronics
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Coming home one night straight after a car accident, a woman feels her memory coming back to the edge of her consciousness and remembers all the fragments that make up what one calls the self: the happy times and the bereavements, the emotions and the memories imbued with eroticism, the dark thoughts, the people close to her, her emotions when faced with art…

Like a stream of consciousness, Papillon Noir is sung in a continuous yet halting breath by the soprano Elise Chauvin. Punctuated by the echoes of the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Papillon Noir is an operatic monodrama, for voice, instrumental ensemble, choir and electronic devices, that creates a dialogue between music and text, awakening and forgetting, the secular and the sacred.

Yann Robin, music
Yannick Haenel, libretto
Arthur Nauzyciel, spatial installation

Elise Chauvin, actor - singer
gnem, live electronics
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Creations for choir and orchestra of the works of the six finalists of the competition for the Prix Saint Christophe du Jeune Compositeur

Les Métaboles (16 singers)
Ensemble Multilatérale
Léo Warynski, direction

In partnership with les Frivolités Parisiennes.

La Sirène d’Auber is a screwball comedy that, in the manner of traditional Italian comedies, is filled with surprises and revelations. Ruses, loves and betrayals take place at a frenzied pace and then unravel. Desire, passion and power are at the heart of this sensual and transgressive fable that finds resolution only in the overthrowing of the established order. Though joy and comedy appear to be the major themes of the work, La Sirène is nevertheless a criticism of power and its abuses, finding a strong echo in today’s world.

In partnership with les Frivolités Parisiennes.

La Sirène d’Auber is a screwball comedy that, in the manner of traditional Italian comedies, is filled with surprises and revelations. Ruses, loves and betrayals take place at a frenzied pace and then unravel. Desire, passion and power are at the heart of this sensual and transgressive fable that finds resolution only in the overthrowing of the established order. Though joy and comedy appear to be the major themes of the work, La Sirène is nevertheless a criticism of power and its abuses, finding a strong echo in today’s world.

Les Ombres qui passent, Ondrej Adamek

Les Métaboles
Orchestre du Pôle supérieur d'enseignement artistique Seine-Saint-Denis Ile-de-France (Pôle Sup' 93)

Les Ombres qui passent, Ondrej Adamek

Les Métaboles
Orchestre du Pôle supérieur d'enseignement artistique Seine-Saint-Denis Ile-de-France (Pôle Sup' 93)

This time the singer focuses on the voice, the central element of her writing.

Over time, in her albums, Yaël Naïm has orchestrated many choirs: gospel style, children’s choirs, or the trio 3somesisters. This time, in keeping with this approach, it’s with the a capella vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, whose performances range from Puccini to Pink Floyd, from Bach to Debussy, that she will deliver a superb selection of original songs spiced up with some classics.

This time the singer focuses on the voice, the central element of her writing.

Over time, in her albums, Yaël Naïm has orchestrated many choirs: gospel style, children’s choirs, or the trio 3somesisters. This time, in keeping with this approach, it’s with the a capella vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, whose performances range from Puccini to Pink Floyd, from Bach to Debussy, that she will deliver a superb selection of original songs spiced up with some classics.

This time the singer focuses on the voice, the central element of her writing.

Over time, in her albums, Yaël Naïm has orchestrated many choirs: gospel style, children’s choirs, or the trio 3somesisters. This time, in keeping with this approach, it’s with the a capella vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, whose performances range from Puccini to Pink Floyd, from Bach to Debussy, that she will deliver a superb selection of original songs spiced up with some classics.

In partnership with les Frivolités Parisiennes.

La Sirène d’Auber is a screwball comedy that, in the manner of traditional Italian comedies, is filled with surprises and revelations. Ruses, loves and betrayals take place at a frenzied pace and then unravel. Desire, passion and power are at the heart of this sensual and transgressive fable that finds resolution only in the overthrowing of the established order. Though joy and comedy appear to be the major themes of the work, La Sirène is nevertheless a criticism of power and its abuses, finding a strong echo in today’s world.

The ancient melody composed at the beginning of the 17^th century by Michael Praetorius, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, finds an echo in the recent version by Jan Sandström with a double choir. This show is also an opportunity to reconnect with major works of the German choral tradition for Christmas, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Distler, Max Reger, and Christmas folk songs, Leise rieselt der Schnee, Stille Nacht, O Tannenbaum…

The Rothko Chapel is a “spiritual environment, a place for contemplation” (Feldman), located in Houston, commissioned by the collectors John and Dominique de Ménil and created by the painter Mark Rothko.

After years of work, in 1970, the unthinkable happens: the painter commits suicide. After the inauguration, the collectors commission a musical creation from Morton Feldman, a friend of Rothko’s, to resonate with the walls of the Rothko Chapel, but also to symbolize its spiritual elevation. Feldman delivers a very personal score, incorporating quite a few events from his life: a melody written on the day of Stravinsky’s funeral in New York; or the final movement of the alto, a Hebraic song he composed when he was fifteen.

A program honoring American vocal music from the 20^th and 21^st centuries with emblematic composers from that country’s great choral tradition. Whether it’s Barber – and his famous Agnus Dei, but also his The Reincarnations, a cycle of songs based on Irish poems – Copland – a major figure of his generation, and author of an important body of choral works – or more recently Eric Whitacre, a young composer whose reputation has long spread beyond the borders of the United States.

To accompany this musical program, Quentin Bisch has imagined a cycle of four fragrances that lead the audience from dusk to dawn.

Anton Dvorak, New World Symphony,
Jacques Loussier, Messe

Les Métaboles (60 singers)
Orchestre des Pays de la Loire
Amateur choirs from the Pays de la Loire
Léo Warynski, direction

Works by Ravel, Haendel and Janequin

Les Métaboles
In collaboration with la Tempête and the Jean-Philippe Rameau children’s choir

Simon-Pierre Bestion, Christophe Junivart and Léo Warynski, direction

This program is conceived like a walk in nature, forests, and gardens. The works sometimes evoke an enchanted forest (La Ronde or Le Jardin Féerique by Ravel), then animals (le Chant des Oiseaux by Janequin), or flowers (Flower Songs by Britten).

The music of Murray Schafer (A Garden of Bells, The Spirit Garden) and Diana Soh (Nature of Things, a commission for Les Métaboles), develops the idea of a soundscape: a fascinating combination of vocal movements, percussions, onomatopoeia, evocations of rituals that reveal the metaphysical dimension of the relationship between man and nature.

Les Métaboles (16 to 24 singers)
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Works for choir and orchestra by Berlioz, Haendel, Verdi and Fauré

Orchestra and choir Société Générale
Orchestra Les Siècles
Vocal ensemble Les Métaboles
François-Xavier Roth, direction

Works for choir, organ, viola de gamba and basso continuo by Lotti, Purcell, Hersant, Mendelssohn, Schütz, Hersant, etc.

Les Métaboles
Ronald Martin Alonso, viola de gamba
Denis Comtet, organ
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Concordance des Temps, de Schütz à Hersant is an olfactory concert.
The program: works for choir, organ, viola de gamba and basso continuo by Bach, Monteverdi, Hersant, Mendelssohn.

Les Métaboles (18 singers)
Viola de gamba and organ
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Concert for the release of the record « Une Nuit Américaine »

Works for a capella choir by Barber, Lauridsen, Copland, Whitacre, Stucky...

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Varied program for orchestra and choir

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Orchestra and choir Société Générale
Orchestra Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth, direction

Works for choir and organ by Pärt, Sviridov, Miskinis, Tchesnokov...
Les Métaboles
Organ
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Adrian Prabava; direction

Concordance des Temps, de Schütz à Hersant is an olfactory concert.
The program: works for choir, organ, viola de gamba and basso continuo by Bach, Monteverdi, Hersant, Mendelssohn.

Les Métaboles (18 singers)
Viola de gamba and organ
Léo Warynski, musical direction

2nd edition of the festival of sacred music of Sofia .
Works for a capella choir by Poulenc, Tchesnokov, Britten, Parry, Duruflé.

Les Métaboles (16 singers)
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Excerpts from the program: « Une Nuit Américaine »
Works for a capella choir by Barber and Whitacre

Les Métaboles (24 singers)
Léo Warynski, direction

Varied works for a capella choir: folk songs from Cameroun, Hymn by Jean Racine, etc.

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Chœur de la Société Générale Cameroun
Léo Warynski, musical direction