Does the Percussions de Strasbourg still exist?
Question heard several times when announcing their arrival in Paris for the Xenakis weekend.
The hypnotizing concert that this pioneering ensemble gave on Saturday at the Cité de la Musique in Paris came at the right time to set the record straight: the year in which they celebrate their sixtieth anniversary, the "Percus" are here and there , always fabulous.
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An ensemble certainly dedicated to creation, but which has been able to build a real repertoire, written for him, with his classics.
The two masterpieces by Xenakis on the program of their Parisian concert (1),
Persephass
a (1969) and
Pléïades
(1979), are to the percussion group what Beethoven's
Heroic
and
5th
are to the orchestra. symphonic.
Hair-raising virtuosity
No trace of routine, however: whether it is placed in the center of the room or distributed around the audience at the four cardinal points, the device remains so spectacular, the clash of rhythms and the iridescence of timbres so universal, the play on the volumes and masses…
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