Gesualdo / Momi

Carlo Gesualdo, prince, composer, and jealous of Venosa who died in 1613, has become an eccentric icon of a modernity that is inventive in every facet.

From Stravinsky to Werner Herzog, from Peter Maxwell-Davies to Marc-André Dalbavie, from Salvatore Sciarrino to the young Italian composer Marco Momi, his works - profane and sacred - have marked contemporary spirits as much as his tumultuous life - now the subject of an opera - has.

Extreme sophistication, bordering on mannerism, an ear in tune with ruptures, the revelation of an image, or of hidden affects: the sumptuous features of the Iconica series by Marco Momi, miniatures for ensemble and electronics, have found a special place of expression next to Gesualdo's Répons.

Carlo Gesualdo Répons from Holy Saturday

Marco Momi Iconica, Iconica II, III, and IV

Solistes XXI
L'Itinéraire
Conductor Rachid Safir
IRCAM computer music design Marco Momi

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, L'Itinéraire, Les Solistes XXI coproduction.
Concert broadcast live on France Musique in Les Lundis de la contemporaine.