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From Arthur H to Alexandre Tharaud: forward the music!

2021-06-12T13:41:37.924Z


For its 10th anniversary, the Chambord music festival has programmed high-level artists. Programming that looks like it. Opened. Curious. Without a priori. But no concessions either. “Which can denote a strong identity. But also to address everyone: experienced music lovers or not. " This is the roadmap that Vanessa Wagner set for herself when she arrived in Chambord ten years ago to assume the artistic direction of the festival at the request of Jean d'Haussonville. And this is the r


Programming that looks like it.

Opened.

Curious.

Without a priori.

But no concessions either.

“Which can denote a strong identity.

But also to address everyone: experienced music lovers or not. "

This is the roadmap that Vanessa Wagner set for herself when she arrived in Chambord ten years ago to assume the artistic direction of the festival at the request of Jean d'Haussonville.

And this is the route that she will follow again this year, for the ten years of the event.

“Out of 15 concerts, we present a very wide range of repertoire,” she explains.

From baroque to today's music.

We want to show that creation is alive, and that it fits naturally into the history of the place since François Ier. ”

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In fact, the baroque will rub shoulders this year, between the tufa walls of the castle, with American musical comedy and minimalism. The

“beautiful dance”

so dear to Louis XIV, revived by the dance company L'Éventail and the Folies françoises, to arias by Couperin, as well as the semi-opera by Purcell

Didon and Aenea

(by the Consonance ensemble and the famous Véronique Gens), will frame the trance of the

Four Movements for Two Pianos

by Philip Glass, or the Broadway arias of the

West-Side Story

by Bernstein, in its version for two pianos interpreted by Vanessa Wagner and her colleague Wilhem Latchoumia (program which has just been recorded by La Dolce Volta). For his closing concert, Alexandre Tharaud will have a dialogue in the same spirit between Rameau and Rachmaninoff.

Mozart and Salieri, for a time reconciled, will offer themselves to the voice of Erik Orsenna and the gut strings of the flourishing Arts of William Christie, while Arthur H will read Prévert, Bonnefoy or Rimbaud on the chords of Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner or Gavin Bryars, always ginned by Vanessa Wagner.

“It is a project born during the first confinement for a capture at Châtelet.

Arthur H was immediately enthusiastic, and it made sense to take this project to Chambord.

There is here a magic of places and acoustics to which artists of all disciplines are sensitive.

And, for the public, it is a way of opening the doors even more. "

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Crossing audiences by focusing on interdisciplinarity? This is the other DNA of the festival, which travels through eras, but also across genres.

“Every year we have projects that come out of pure classical music. We have often hosted jazz… ”

This year, it will also be Argentinian tango, with carte blanche to accordionist Vincent Peirani, and a dance concert by the orchestra specializing in Argentinian tango Silbando. The opportunity to celebrate the centenary of Piazzolla. Because, at the festival, even birthdays should be a pretext to be surprised.

"I've never been a big fan of birthdays ... Except when they allow you to take unexpected paths."

Programming young talents is one of the missions that are particularly close to my heart, especially after what they went through with the crisis

Vanessa Wagner, artistic director of the festival.

Beethoven's 250th birthday (which should have been celebrated in 2020) will open the ball well in the courtyard of the Château, with the essential

Heroic

entrusted to the symphonic orchestra of the Center-Val de Loire region:

“It is very important for us to anchor the festival on its territory,

specifies Vanessa Wagner.

What is more, the phalanx will be headed here by Korean Sora Elisabeth Lee… ”

She is a former student of Alain Altinoglu at the CNSM in Paris, and one of the revelations of the first springboard for female conductors at the Philharmonie de Paris, in 2018.

But Beethoven's birthday will also be the pretext for an ambitious creation around

La Lettre à Élise

, rearranged by twelve composers, in twelve different versions, for twelve voices (those of the Musicatreize ensemble!), Piano and accordion. As well as a springboard for the young French piano scene, embodied by Sélim Mazari, Théo Fouchenneret and Nathanaël Gouin, who will share some of his sonatas.

"Programming young talents is one of the missions that are particularly close to my heart, especially after what they went through with the crisis",

considers the director, who will also invite among these young people this year, the cellist Astrig Siranossian, the mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet, the pianist Maroussia Gentet or the Tana quartet.

Without forgetting the Youth Orchestra of the Center, which will accompany their elders of the Chausson trio in the

Triple concerto

(Beethoven, always).

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Saint-Saëns will also be there.

For the 100 years of his death, no question of offering a high-sounding vision.

His

Danse Macabre

, his

Cello Concerto

and his

Symphony No. 3 will

resonate with the tangy and creaking sounds of François-Xavier Roth's Siècles, accompanied by Sol Gabetta.

Finally, the music will push the walls. Whether it is to accompany visitors to the castle during their stroll on July 6, from the groves to the attic, to the sound of Siranossian's cello, the atypical sax-double bass duo Continuum, and the piano of Maroussia Gentet. Or during the concert in the forest of the aptly named saxophone quintet La Grande Volière, mischievously described by their host as

"reintroduction of musicians in the wild"

!

Source: lefigaro

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