JARDIN FÉÉRIQUE

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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

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2020

May

Friday, May 29 2020Cancelled - Jardin féériqueColmar

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

2018

August

Tuesday August 14th 2018 - 8:30 pmJardin féériqueSemaines musicales de Quimper - Cathédrale St-Corentin, Quimper

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

2017

June

Saturday June 17th 2017 Jardin féériqueFestival des Voûtes célestes - Abbaye de Nieul-sur-l'Autise (Vendée)

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