Happy Birthday, Péter Eötvös!
The soloists from the Ensemble intercontemporain return to IRCAM's Espace de projection as their former musical director, Péter Eötvös, celebrates his 80th birthday. An evening dedicated to young creation, just like Péter Eötvös himself has always been. Alongside his solo chamber music and a work written in memory of violist Christophe Desjardins, three new works by a very promising young generation. Bastien David, for the first time at IRCAM, explores in Bec et ongles the unruly song of a violin and the possibilities offered by distributed acoustics. Matteo Gualandi pursues his distinctive, nostalgic, and yet futuristic poetry. Last but not least, Sarah Nemtsov, who is closely associated with contemporary poetry and has just entered the operatic world with Ophelia. Her creation, Keter (crown), borrows its title from the Kabbalah, evoking "the most hidden of all hidden things". "I wanted an earthy sound, with dust and dirt, mud, stones, organic matter from a soil other than the one we live on."
Hae-Sun Kang violin
Soloists from the Ensemble intercontemporain
Serge Lemouton, Augustin Muller IRCAM electronics
Bastien David Bec et ongles – suspended - Premiere 2024
commissioned by the Ensemble intercontemporain and IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
Matteo Gualandi Œuvre nouvelle - Premiere 2024
commissioned by the Ensemble intercontemporain and IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
Sarah Nemtsov Keter - Premiere 2024
commissioned by the Ensemble intercontemporain
Péter Eötvös A call, Langsamer Marsch in memoriam Christophe Desjardins - Premiere 2024
Listen: Péter Eötvös
- Intervalles-Intérieurs by Péter Eötvös, 1982 (recorded at IRCAM, 2014)
- Moro Lasso by Péter Eötvös (recorded at the Théâtre musical de Paris, 1990)
- Steine by Péter Eötvös (recorded at the Théâtre du Châtelet, 1991)
- Hochzeitsmadrigal by Péter Eötvös (recorded at the Théâtre musical de Paris, 1991)
- Chinese Opera by Péter Eötvös (recorded at IRCAM, 1994)
- Psalm 151 (à la mémoire de Franck Zappa) by Péter Eötvös, 1994 (recorded at the Arsenal de Metz, 2004)
- Psy by Péter Eötvös, 1997 (recorded at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS, 2014)
