Anniversaire Boulez | 100

Cummings concert given in January 2021 during confinement left its mark. In 2025, it is again programmed at the Philharmonie de Paris on the occasion of the centenary of Pierre Boulez, with a modified program, since it includes a creation by the composer Michael Jarrel for mixed choir and ensemble.

Cumming - January 21, 2021 - Philharmonie de Paris:

video link : concert on the Philharmonie's "live" site
sound link : concert recorded by France Musique

ANNIVERSAIRE BOULEZ | 100

Pierre Boulez, Cummings ist der Dichter

Program for March 28, 2025
Pierre Boulez, sur Incises, for 3 pianos, 3 harps and 3 percussion-keyboards
Michael JARRELL
New work, for mixed choir and ensemble
World creation - Commission of the Ensemble intercontemporain and Métaboles
 

Program for January 21, 2021
François Meïmoun, Le Rite de la nuit noire. Voyage d'Artaud au Mexique
Command of Ensemble intercontemporain, mondial creation
Giovanni Pieruigi da Palestrina, Stabat Mater
Francesco Filidei, Requiem
Command of l'Ensemble intercontemporain, Métaboles, la Casa da Musica de Porto, french creation

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

Dans la presse

... the combination of dynamic clarity and agile energy that characterises Leo Warynski

Olyrix - Charles Arden
 - Cummings

... the combination of dynamic clarity and agile energy that characterises Leo Warynski

Olyrix - Charles Arden - Cummings

A Birth and a  Re-Birth, both passionate and enthralling are on the programme of this concert recorded at the Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris. The music of Pierre Boulez is continually resurgent five years after his death, and music continues to recreate with for example the fascinating Requiem by Francesco Filidei (born in 1973 and who notably marked the operatic world with his opera L'Inondation (the Flood), especially as this rebirth echoes the Stabat Mater by Palestrina (a composer of the musical Renaissance: in 16th century Rome). Music thus continues to be reborn even in times of lockdown, recorded, but behind closed doors, and thanks to the immense and sustained work of the Ensemble intercontemporain, the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles and Léo Warynski. The conductor even reminds us, before the concert, how much the musicians need this return to music and this physical presence.

The pleasure of rediscovering the music is thus visible and audible for these instrumentalists and singers who, together, make the most of the richness of their individual timbres to serve a common musical project, guided by the combination of dynamic clarity and agile energy that characterise Leo Warynski.

... the combination of dynamic clarity and agile energy that characterises Leo Warynski

Olyrix - Charles Arden
 - Cummings

... the combination of dynamic clarity and agile energy that characterises Leo Warynski

Olyrix - Charles Arden - Cummings

A Birth and a  Re-Birth, both passionate and enthralling are on the programme of this concert recorded at the Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris. The music of Pierre Boulez is continually resurgent five years after his death, and music continues to recreate with for example the fascinating Requiem by Francesco Filidei (born in 1973 and who notably marked the operatic world with his opera L'Inondation (the Flood), especially as this rebirth echoes the Stabat Mater by Palestrina (a composer of the musical Renaissance: in 16th century Rome). Music thus continues to be reborn even in times of lockdown, recorded, but behind closed doors, and thanks to the immense and sustained work of the Ensemble intercontemporain, the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles and Léo Warynski. The conductor even reminds us, before the concert, how much the musicians need this return to music and this physical presence.

The pleasure of rediscovering the music is thus visible and audible for these instrumentalists and singers who, together, make the most of the richness of their individual timbres to serve a common musical project, guided by the combination of dynamic clarity and agile energy that characterise Leo Warynski.

2025

April

Wednesday, April 9 2025Anniversaire Boulez | 100 Bunka Kaikan - Tokyo

Ravel's music includes only a few pieces written for choir, but it seems to call for the voice, and many composers have dabbled in the art of vocal transcription of his works. The opportunity to rediscover them in a new light.

To complete a repertoire that we owe to Gérard Pesson, Thierry Machuel or Clytus Gottwald, familiar with vocal arrangements, Les Métaboles challenged Thibault Perrine to give a vocal version of two of the composer's most famous works: La Pavane pour une infante défunte and the Boléro. The first borrows its text from the 16th century poem Belle qui tiens ma vie set to music by Arbeau, while the second chooses wordless singing and body percussion in a very convincing reinvention. The public is invited to participate in the concert through three rehearsals beforehand, under the precise direction of Léo Warynski.

As part of the Boulez centenary

March

Friday, March 28 2025 - 08:OO pmAnniversaire Boulez | 100La Philharmonie de Paris

On the occasion of the Boulez centenary celebrations, the Ensemble intercontemporain and Les Métaboles are reprising Cummings ist der dichter and on Incises, two masterpieces emblematic of his sources of inspiration and his compositional process.

As its title indicates, cummings ist der dichter (1970) was born from Boulez's fascination with the oh-so-daring poet E.E. Cummings: the latter digs into language, not only in its semantic and pictorial aspects, but also through its rhythm, and in particular its visual rhythm and its organization of the space of the page. A thought of the textual and intertextual space that the composer aspires to transmute into sound. The resulting explosive proliferation is also found in sur Incises (1998) by Pierre Boulez, a dazzling triangular proliferation based on Incises (1995) for piano. Regular guest of the Ensemble intercontemporain this season, Michael Jarrell takes advantage of the meeting of the soloists and the Métaboles for a new creation.

As part of the Boulez centenary

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2021

January

Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 8:30 pmCummingsLive on Philharmonie de Paris website

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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