participatory concerts

Is there any prayer sweeter and more sublime than Fauré's Requiem, is there any melody more sweet than Jean Racine's Cantique? In Les Djinns, based on Victor Hugo’s virtuoso poem, the composer on the contrary unleashes the most frightening hordes. But it is indeed the most tender Fauré that we find in the two other pieces: the melancholy Pavane, to which the dandy Robert de Montesquiou, cousin of the dedicatee, offered delicately old-fashioned verses, and the concert suite taken from the incidental music for Pelléas et Mélisande, the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, with the famous “Sicilienne”.

A tour of Europe in 90 minutes

A tour of Europe in 90 minutes

This participatory concert is part of the "Week-end amateur, you say?" at the Philharmonie de Paris Rehearsals are planned for the public who wants to participate on Saturdays May 20 and June 3, from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Participants will celebrate the Europe of yesterday and today by practicing Beethoven's Ode to Joy and a traditional Afghan song entitled Biya ke berim ba Mazar.

40 amateur singers from the Grand Est, accompanied by the ensemble Les Métaboles, in the hall of the Arsenal before the concert. With INECC - Mission Voix Lorraine

Playing for Philharmonie project brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and the ensemble Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.

Playing for Philharmonie project brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and the ensemble Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.

Playing for Philharmonie project brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and the ensemble Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.

In 1994, Messe un jour ordinaire crossed the vehement and shattering words of mass with that, individual and derisory, of Laurence, a young drug addict who appeared in a documentary by Jean-Michel Carré. 20 years later, Bernard Cavanna rewrites it to reinforce the presence of voice and choir.

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

At the initiative of the Royaumont Foundation, les Métaboles and l'Orchestre régional de Normandie will perform an original musical program that brings together Camille Saint-Saëns and the young French composer Basile Chassaing, winner in 2019 of the Académie Voix Nouvelles de la Royaumont Foundation. Entitled “Oratorios”, this project combines a contemporary creation and a major work from the repertoire according to the same theme.

Les Métaboles
L'Orchestre régional de Normandie
Léo Waryski, direction

Guerre et paix
Les Métaboles
Musical direction : Léo Warynski
Marc Coppey, cello
With a college class - Victor Hugo de Colmar (25 college students)

At 16h, workshop open to the public : come and prepare for your participation in the concert !

Dimitri Tchesnokov : Cantate de la paix (creation)
Ludwig van Beethoven : Hymne à la joie, extrait de la symphonie n°9 (adaptation)*
By the waters of Babylon (canon)*
Maurice Ravel : Trois chansons pour chœur à quatre voix
Chants militaires : Dans les tranchées de Lagny et La Strasbourgeoise (arrangements Brice Légée)
Anton Bruckner : Locus iste
Felix Mendelssohn : Herr, nun lassest du deinen Diener pour choeur et solistes
John Tavener : Svyati pour violoncelle et choeur
Philippe Hersant : Métamorphoses pour violoncelle et choeur

(*) participatory works

Messe un jour ordinaire (Mass an ordinary day) revolves mainly around two texts: the ritual of Mass and the insignificant words of Laurence, a young woman adrift, an ordinary addict, who has now passed away, from a filmed document by Jean-Michel Carré, « Galère de femmes ». The two are confronted: the emphatic, dramatic, self-assured collective speech and the individual, modest, minimal, human and insignificant speech.

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.

Works by Nystedt, Poulenc, Tchesnokov, Schnittke, Britten, Copland...

Les Métaboles (16 singers)
Chœur de chambre du Conservatoire de Colmar, direction Catherine Fender and the students of the choir direction class
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Les Ombres qui passent, Ondrej Adamek

Les Métaboles
Orchestre du Pôle supérieur d'enseignement artistique Seine-Saint-Denis Ile-de-France (Pôle Sup' 93)

Les Ombres qui passent, Ondrej Adamek

Les Métaboles
Orchestre du Pôle supérieur d'enseignement artistique Seine-Saint-Denis Ile-de-France (Pôle Sup' 93)

Works for choir and orchestra by Berlioz, Haendel, Verdi and Fauré

Orchestra and choir Société Générale
Orchestra Les Siècles
Vocal ensemble Les Métaboles
François-Xavier Roth, direction

Varied program for orchestra and choir

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Orchestra and choir Société Générale
Orchestra Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth, direction