The singers give a galvanizing vitality to the ensemble

04/07/2018
ResMusica - Michèle Tosi
Le jour juste avant l'océan

Cendo crosses the universes in Le jour juste avant l'océan

It is in the generous acoustics of the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine church in Gennevilliers, city where the Multilateral ensemble is in residence, that Léo Warynski conducts a world premiere "The day just before the ocean" by Raphaël Cendo, an Unidentified Musical Object (OMNI), in the words of the composer, which places at the center of the project texts by Barullo, a “twelve-tone book” while protruding by the Hispano-Argentinian playwright and scenographer Rodrigo García. Léo Warynski's task is as delicate as it is well assumed, within a universe oscillating between constraint and freedom, balance of forces and excess of sound. The singers give a galvanizing vitality to the ensemble and the energy passes from one instrumental ensemble to another. The title of this OMNI takes up that of Bernard-Marie Koltès, "The night just before the forest", the terms of which Raphaël Cendo modifies, preferring as for him to spin the metaphor of the wave and the submersion.