Par CANAT DE CHIZY EDITH. Le point de départ de cette pièce fut le tableau de Van Gogh: Champ de blé avec corbeaux, l'un des tout derniers qu'il a peints avant son suicide le 27 juillet 1890, et que l'on a souvent considéré comme annonciateur de ce geste désespéré. Ce tableau m'a immédiatement rappelé ces vers français de Rainer Maria Rilke dans les Quatrains valaisans: 'Chemins qui ne mènent nulle part, entre deux prés, que l'on dirait avec art de leur but détournés, / Chemins qui souvent n'ont devant eux rien d'autre en face / Que le pur espace et la saison.' Des vers qui, eux-mêmes, ont donné leur titre à un ouvrage du philosophe Martin Heidegger, Chemins qui ne mènent nulle part, dont je pourrais dire qu'il est à l'origine de ma vocation: c'est après avoir découvert, durant mes études de philosophie, ce livre, dans lequel Heidegger parle de la dimension métaphysique de la poésie, notamment à partir de l'oeuvre de Rilke, que j'ai choisi d'entrer au Conservatoire de Paris et de me consacrer à la composition. A mes yeux, la musique possède une dimension métaphysique au même titre que la poésie: comme le dit Heidegger 'L'oeuvre d'art ouvre à sa manière l'être de l'étant.' Toutes mes oeuvres tendent à évoquer cette 'troisième dimension' de la musique. L'essentiel d'une oeuvre réside toujours pour moi dans cette tentative de suggérer un autre monde, cet 'ailleurs' qui nous dépasse. A cet égard, Omen fait intervenir - dans son inspiration, non dans son écriture proprement dite - tout un réseau de correspondances qui offre en quelque sorte, une synthèse de ma démarche et de mes préoccupations. L'allusion au tableau de Van Gogh tout d'abord, inscrit cette partition dans la lignée de celles qui m'ont été inspirées par la peinture: mon concerto pour alto était centré autour de Nicolas de Staël, et je viens d'achever une composition pour flûte et ensemble à partir d'un tableau de Turner. Ensuite, il y a la figure même de Van Gogh: son parcours spirituel, tout comme celui de Staël, en font l'une de ces 'comètes', venues d'un autre monde, dont parle la poétesse Marina Tsvetaïeva. Le titre de Omen, qui signifie 'présage' en anglais de même qu'en latin, évoque ainsi le mystérieux et funeste destin de ce peintre visionnaire. Cette idée de 'trajectoire' (qui rejoint ici l'image du 'chemin') est un autre des thèmes qui me sont chers, et elle est également à l'oeuvre dans Omen. L'écriture pour orchestre reste mon mode d'expression privilégié de par la réflexion sur l'organisation de l'espace sonore, sa profondeur, et le travail sur les timbres qu'elle induit: dans cette pièce, l'orchestre devient un univers de mouvement propre à traduire cette idée de tournoiement (la dialectique entre mouvement et immobilité est un autre axe de mon travail depuis quelque temps, notamment avec les cordes) qui, dans le tableau de Van Gogh - avec le vol des corbeaux, ce ciel renversé - revêt une signification évidemment dramatique, et prémonitoire. / contemporain / Répertoire / Orchestre

'La Mer?, which is an impressionistic work through and through, was composed between 1903-1905. Debussy however refined this work up until at least 1913. These corrections are found in a score which Debussy gave to his wife as a present for her private library in 1913.The new scholarly-critical edition draws on several important sources previously unavailable to musicologists, resulting in an array of new readings and corrections. In addition, there are many changes, a.o. in terms of articulation and dynamics.This new edition includes the famous 'fanfare? in Movement III, clearly marked in small print and brackets. This fanfare was excised in the 1910 reissue of the work, but was reinstated by a number of great conductors who knew Debussy, i.e. Monteux, Münch, Mitropoulos and Ansermet. They felt that the excision was a misunderstanding and that the fanfare was necessary for the structure of the movement. And so, the Bärenreiter edition presents the revival of a performing tradition which is committed to the fanfare.- New Urtext edition with numerous corrections in comparison to other editions- Important sources which were previously inaccessible have been taken into account- Score and orchestral parts in large format (25.5 x 32.5cm)- Score and orchestral parts with an impeccable generous layout- Includes an informative introduction (Eng/Fr/Ger), facsimiles, source descriptions and a Critical Commentary (Eng) / Orchestre

'La Mer?, which is an impressionistic work through and through, was composed between 1903-1905. Debussy however refined this work up until at least 1913. These corrections are found in a score which Debussy gave to his wife as a present for her private library in 1913.The new scholarly-critical edition draws on several important sources previously unavailable to musicologists, resulting in an array of new readings and corrections. In addition, there are many changes, a.o. in terms of articulation and dynamics.This new edition includes the famous 'fanfare? in Movement III, clearly marked in small print and brackets. This fanfare was excised in the 1910 reissue of the work, but was reinstated by a number of great conductors who knew Debussy, i.e. Monteux, Münch, Mitropoulos and Ansermet. They felt that the excision was a misunderstanding and that the fanfare was necessary for the structure of the movement. And so, the Bärenreiter edition presents the revival of a performing tradition which is committed to the fanfare.- New Urtext edition with numerous corrections in comparison to other editions- Important sources which were previously inaccessible have been taken into account- Score and orchestral parts in large format (25.5 x 32.5cm)- Score and orchestral parts with an impeccable generous layout- Includes an informative introduction (Eng/Fr/Ger), facsimiles, source descriptions and a Critical Commentary (Eng) / Contrebasse

'La Mer?, which is an impressionistic work through and through, was composed between 1903-1905. Debussy however refined this work up until at least 1913. These corrections are found in a score which Debussy gave to his wife as a present for her private library in 1913.The new scholarly-critical edition draws on several important sources previously unavailable to musicologists, resulting in an array of new readings and corrections. In addition, there are many changes, a.o. in terms of articulation and dynamics.This new edition includes the famous 'fanfare? in Movement III, clearly marked in small print and brackets. This fanfare was excised in the 1910 reissue of the work, but was reinstated by a number of great conductors who knew Debussy, i.e. Monteux, Münch, Mitropoulos and Ansermet. They felt that the excision was a misunderstanding and that the fanfare was necessary for the structure of the movement. And so, the Bärenreiter edition presents the revival of a performing tradition which is committed to the fanfare.- New Urtext edition with numerous corrections in comparison to other editions- Important sources which were previously inaccessible have been taken into account- Score and orchestral parts in large format (25.5 x 32.5cm)- Score and orchestral parts with an impeccable generous layout- Includes an informative introduction (Eng/Fr/Ger), facsimiles, source descriptions and a Critical Commentary (Eng) / Violon II

Solo for Oboe or Violin. Par BACRI NICOLAS. The title only appears frivolous to those who have lived little. With the passage of time, the seasons that pass, the differences in quantity and quality of light, of temperature and weather, become of ever greater importance in the meaning of our individual existence. This transformation follows the path of our lives and often mimes in front of our very own eyes, incredulous and wondrous, events that we can only experience once in a lifetime: our birth, our blossoming, our aging and our death. Such a subject could well take up ten years of my life. This was the case. Nevertheless, everything started very innocently with a proposition from my friend François Leleux to write him a double concerto that he could play with Natalia Gutman, initially named ‘Musica Concertante’. It was with this second proposition from François for another double concerto, this time with Lisa Batiashvili, that the idea came to me for a cycle of four concertos with, each time, a different instrument from the string quartet to join the oboe. The automnal colours of the cello are a perfect match for the retrospective nature of the first completed concerto in the cycle. ‘concerto nostalgico, l’automne’, whilst the love and the first child of the Leleux-Batiashvili couple could only bring Spring to mind, hence the ‘Concerto amoroso, le printemps’, was born. When Jean-Marc Bador asked me to be an associate of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris for two years, it was quite naturally that I thought of completing this cycle for François Leleux, with winter ‘Concerto tenebroso’, created in January 2010 with Lise berthaud playing the viola. All that remained was for me to conclude, with a work that reunited all four protagonsits. It was summer, the ‘Concerto luminoso’, which took on this role’./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Deux superbes oeuvres originales frappante par l'un des compositeurs les plus doués de l'école française: Pelléas et Mélisande, op. 80, une suite pour orchestre écrite après la musique de scène de Fauré pour le drame de Maurice Maeterlinck, et la Pavane extrêmement populaire, op. 50, l'une des plus jouées de courtes oeuvres orchestrales du répertoire.Réimpression de l'Hamelle J. and Cie, Paris, n.d. éditions. / Orchestre