Chants libres
Concert
After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Bettencourt Foundation is offering Chants libre, a season of choral art in France. Several ensembles perform over a hundred performances, with the aim of supporting the activity of the choral sector and allowing moments of encounter with the French, in particular the most fragile and those furthest removed from cultural practices.
CHANTS LIBRES
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, direction
June
32 chanteurs, l'Orchestre d'harmonie de Tonnerre, le choeur du Tonnerrois et la Maîtrise de Dijon pour un concert réunissant des oeuvres d'Offenbach, Sibelius, Grieg, Verdi, Bregovic, Gimenez....
A program around melodies from France, America and Germany, some very well known, others more rare...
Meredith Monk Night fall ; Eric Whitacre Waternight ; Philip Glass Three songs pour choeur a cappella ; Camille Saint-Saens Calme des Nuits ; Gabriel Fauré, Alexander L’Estrange (arrgment) Après un rêve ; Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Brice Légée (arrgment): Clairs de Lune ; Claude Debussy, Trois chanson ; Franz Schubert, Christophe Looten (arrgment): Erlkönig ; Camille Saint-Saens , Thibaut Perrine (Arrgment) Danse macabre
June
32 singers conducted by Léo Warynski with a program that will bring together many composers: Veljo Tormis, Franz Schubert, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Eric Whitacre and Jacques Offenbach...
The Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer has developed in his music a most singular philosophical approach, his vocal works seeking to establish a spiritual link with Nature, by creating real soundscapes, drawing inspiration for this from Native American culture. The vocal ensemble Les Métaboles excels in the interpretation of this metaphysical repertoire. Completed by a piece by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, this concert is set in motion by choreographer Éric Oberdorff, assuring the public of an extraordinary mystical experience.
Les Métaboles and the cellist Marc Coppey, offer a program under the sign of metamorphosis. Some works are transformed, such as a Chaconne by Bach and Agnus Dei by Barber, transcribed for cello and choir. Others translate the metamorphosis musically, such as the eponymous work by Philippe Hersant inspired by the four seasons or the creation of the Japanese composer Noriko Baba. The ultimate change of state, that of passing from life to death, is explored in John Tavener's Svyati.
December
After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. The concert will take place at the Halle Verrière of the Meisenthal International Center for Glass Art
After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation.
The concert will take place at the Saint-Matthieu church in Colmar with the Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar
After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. Musical "surges" will take place in solidarity grocery stores and EPHADs in Mulhouse and Colmar
After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. The concert will take place at the Centre Pompidou-Metz
July
Ensemble enchantons l’été
Surprise concert in the gardens of the Château de la Neuenbourg, as part of "Ensemble enchantons d'été", a vocal happening of the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation