JARDIN FÉÉRIQUE
Concert
Recorded on the NoMadMusic label, Le Jardin féérique is a programme of a cappella works in which nature is in turn a harmonic or phantasmagorical garden, a place for contemplation or reflection, or simply a soundscape.
The a cappella vocal writings of the composers recorded on this disc reveal by their precision and sense of detail that they were also great orchestrators. Les Métaboles and their conductor Léo Warynski paid particular attention to the intelligibility and expressiveness of the voices, but also to the restitution of this orchestral dimension by means of the entire dynamic palette that a choir can offer, from the almost whispered piano to the broadest and most intense forte.
Album labelled France musique
JARDIN FÉÉRIQUE
Benjamin Britten , Hymn to Cecilia, Five Flower Songs
Camille Saint-Saëns, Romance du soir, Calme des nuits, Les fleurs des arbres, Des pas dans l’allée
Maurice Ravel, Trois chansons for a cappella choir
Maurice Ravel / Thierry Machuel, Le Jardin féérique
Maurice Ravel / Clytus Gottwald , La Vallée des cloches
Murray Schafer, Miniwanka ou le cycle de l’eau
Les Métaboles (18 singers)
Léo Warynski, direction
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Jardin féérique
Jardin féérique
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, direction
CD recording in february 2019 at Studio de l'Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Recording producer : Louis Castelain
En savoir plus...May
After Mysterious Nativity "A very beautiful disc to recommend to our listeners" (France Musique) and Une nuit americaine "One of the best French choirs", (Resmusica) the new Metaboles Jardin féérique disc is out in March. The release concert will take place on March 28 in Notre-Dame-du-Liban. The Fairy Garden is an a cappella program - Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Britten and Schafer - in which nature is alternately harmonic or fantastic garden, place of contemplation or reflection, or simply a soundscape.
Léo Warynski, musical direction
August
This program is conceived like a walk in nature, forests, and gardens. The works sometimes evoke an enchanted forest (La Ronde or Le Jardin Féerique by Ravel), then animals (le Chant des Oiseaux by Janequin), or flowers (Flower Songs by Britten). The music of Murray Schafer (A Garden of Bells, The Spirit Garden) and Diana Soh (Nature of Things, a commission for Les Métaboles), develops the idea of an soundscape: a fascinating combination of vocal movements, percussions, onomatopoeia, evocations of rituals that reveal the metaphysical dimension of the relationship between man and nature.
Les Métaboles (16 to 24 singers)
Léo Warynski, musical direction
June
This program is conceived like a walk in nature, forests, and gardens. The works sometimes evoke an enchanted forest (La Ronde or Le Jardin Féerique by Ravel), then animals (le Chant des Oiseaux by Janequin), or flowers (Flower Songs by Britten).
The music of Murray Schafer (A Garden of Bells, The Spirit Garden) and Diana Soh (Nature of Things, a commission for Les Métaboles), develops the idea of a soundscape: a fascinating combination of vocal movements, percussions, onomatopoeia, evocations of rituals that reveal the metaphysical dimension of the relationship between man and nature.
Les Métaboles (16 to 24 singers)
Léo Warynski, musical direction