Jacques Rebotier " Requiem " For seven votes, seven clarinets, seven died, chorus of children, accordion, cymbalum
Tuesday November 21, 2006 l 20h30 MC2 : Grenoble – Salle de Création
By Temps Relatif Ensemble vocal, The Ensemble instrumental du CNR and the Chorus of teenager of CNR Luc Denoux (direction)
Brigitte Peyré (Soprano solo)
Temps Relatif Ensemble vocal :
Isabelle Martin (soprano), Chrystèle Chovelon (mezzo soprano), Caroline Gesret (mezzo-soprano), Svétli P-A Chaumien (tenor), Philippe Noncle (tenor), Thibault Gerentet (baritone), Eric Chopin (bass)
Ensemble instrumental of professors of Conservatoire National de Région :
Clarinets : Pierre Dubier, Pierre Horckmans, Bernard Bonhomme, Annick Collomb, Pierre Dubier, Richard Malblanc, Yves Jeanne, Taeko Yokomichi
Accordion : Jean Luc Manca
Cymbalum : Sébastien Banz
“Looking right into the Christian ritual of the dead, we are struck by this astonishing programme: transire de morte ad vitam. Go backwards in time, nothing less.
What man – or musician, by proxy - has never dreamt of going back, retracing, overturning, distending, stretching, shrinking, altering, twisting the neck, hands and feet of time, of killing time? Of being the master of time, or at least of the way it passes? Or at least of the perception of how it passes?
As composers, we all dream of time coming to a halt, of the note that kills, of music that we can never get over.” These introductory comments from the composer illustrate the mindset of a fun yet serious, majestic yet iconoclastic, classic yet offbeat work in which voices, instruments and the dead come together to discuss the imaginary time of the next world: eternal, never-ending, perpetual…
Corealisation : Conservatoire National de Région / Temps relatif Ensemble vocal / 38e Rugissants. With the support of MC2 : Grenoble
