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Opmaak Booklet Lost Horizon.Indd 1 05/02/2019 20:20 Opmaak Booklet Lost Horizon.Indd 2 05/02/2019 20:20 Opmaak Bookletlost Horizon.Indd 3 STÉPHANE DENÈVE BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC RENAUD CAPUÇON TIMOTHY McALLISTER opmaak booklet Lost Horizon.indd 1 05/02/2019 20:20 opmaak booklet Lost Horizon.indd 2 05/02/2019 20:20 BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC, STÉPHANE DENÈVE Les Cités de Lovecraft 1 Céléphaïs 9’05” 2 Kadath 10’22” 3 La Cité du soleil couchant 4’08” A Kind of Trane Timothy McAllister saxophone Concerto pour saxophone et orchestre / Concerto for saxophone and orchestra 4 “There is none other” 5’00” 5 Ballade 10’08” 6 Coltrane on the dancefloor 6’11” Les Horizons Perdus Renaud Capuçon violon / violin Concerto pour violon et orchestre / Concerto for violin and orchestra 1 8’20” Premier voyage 2 4’38” Shangri-La 1 3 6’00” Deuxième voyage 4 9’19” Shangri-La 2 Le Tombeau des Regrets 5 12’38” Le Tombeau des Regrets Renaud Capuçon appears courtesy of Erato/Warner Classics Prise de son, direction artistique et montage Jean-Marc Laisné Assistant son Jonathan Ducasse Enregistré à Studio 4, Flagey – Bruxelles Les Cités de Lovecraft © 2017 by GERARD BILLAUDOT EDITEUR A Kind of Trane © 2015 by GERARD BILLAUDOT EDITEUR 2018 © WOUTER VAN VAERENBERGH VAN © WOUTER Les Horizons Perdus © by GERARD BILLAUDOT EDITEUR Le Tombeau des Regrets © 2017 by GERARD BILLAUDOT EDITEUR opmaak booklet Lost Horizon.indd 3 05/02/2019 20:20 Les Cités de Lovecraft · INSTRUMENTATION 3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – timb, 4 perc, pno-cel, hp et cordes · COMMANDE DE fr Guillaume Connesson est né en 1970, à un moment clé l’Auditorium – Orchestre national de Lyon et du Nederlands de l’évolution de la musique. La “dictature sérielle”, qui s’était Philharmonisch Orkest · imposée sans grande résistance, comme si rien d’autre de neuf AVEC LE SOUTIEN DE ne pouvait être inventé, vivait ses derniers feux. Les grandes la Fondation Eduard van Beinum · figures voyaient leur parcours intransigeant s’infléchir. Des CRÉATION compositeurs d’origine et de formation diverses, passés par le 13 octobre 2017, à Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht (Pays-Bas), par une période avant-gardiste, investissaient à nouveau, chacun le Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, à leur manière, la tonalité. Les problématiques d’avant-guerre sous la direction de Marc Albrecht A Kind of Trane revenaient, sous d’autres formes. Epoque transitoire, retrou- Concerto pour saxophone vant peu à peu les voies fécondes de la création… et orchestre / Concerto for saxophone and orchestra · C’est dans ce contexte que Guillaume Connesson se lance, INSTRUMENTATION quelques années plus tard, dans l’aventure de la composition. Ses 3.2.2.2 – 2.2.2.0 – timb, 3 perc, pno et cordes premiers pas sont guidés par un besoin d’ouverture qui s’exprime · COMMANDE DE par l’influence marquante des musiques populaires, du cinéma l’Orchestre Philharmonique et de la danse, sans frontière ni tabou. Les carcans de la musique de Strasbourg, dans le cadre de SaxOpen – Congrès et Festival “contemporaine” expérimentale sont brisés par ces musiques mondial du Saxophone · virtuoses, éclatantes et hédonistes. CRÉATION le 9 juillet 2015, au Palais de la musique et des congrès, Strasbourg Guillaume Connesson approche aujourd’hui de la cin- (France), dans le cadre de SaxOpen, quantaine et l’on peut désormais parler de maturité, ce dont par Joonatan Rautiola (saxophone 2014 2016 soprano), Jean-Yves Fourmeau témoigne, après “Lucifer” ( ) et “Pour sortir au jour” ( ), (saxophone alto) et Nicolas Prost (saxophone soprano) et l’Orchestre ce nouveau double-album dirigé par Stéphane Denève à la tête Philharmonique de Strasbourg, sous du Brussels Philharmonic. Ces deux cd exposent deux facettes la direction de Marko Letonja opmaak booklet Lost Horizon.indd 4 05/02/2019 20:20 Les Horizons Perdus Concerto pour violon et de l’art du compositeur, et proposent ainsi deux voyages. L’un orchestre / Concerto for violin cd 1 and orchestra à l’extérieur de soi, c’est le avec les fantastiques et festifs · Cités de Lovecraft et le Concerto pour saxophone “A Kind À RENAUD CAPUÇON · of Trane”. L’autre est un voyage à l’intérieur de soi, comme INSTRUMENTATION une quête, illustrée dans le cd 2 par le Concerto pour violon 2.2.3.2 – 2.2.2.0 – timb, 3 perc, pno et cordes “Les Horizons Perdus” et Le Tombeau des Regrets. Créées · 2015 2018 COMMANDE DE sur une courte période entre (A Kind of Trane) et Renaud Capuçon, avec le soutien de (Les Horizons Perdus), ces quatre partitions montrent bien Monsieur Pierre Bergé · les multiples facettes d’un compositeur qui se nourrit de CRÉATION contradiction et de dialectique pour avancer. Son goût initial le 14 septembre 2018, à Flagey, Bruxelles (Belgique), par Renaud pour les musiques théâtrales et spectaculaires est contrebalan- Capuçon (violon) et le Brussels cé par une tendance de plus en plus prégnante vers l’intros- Philharmonic, sous la direction de Stéphane Denève pection. Depuis quelques années, Guillaume Connesson s’est Le Tombeau des Regrets en effet détaché de l’emprise exclusive du rythme pour travailler · le contrepoint et la mélodie. On retrouve certes ses moteurs À STÉPHANE DENÈVE · rythmiques jubilatoires dans le final du Concerto pour saxo- INSTRUMENTATION phone, mais le Concerto de violon et Le Tombeau des Regrets 3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – timb, 2 perc, cel et cordes illustrent une veine expressive plus sombre, déjà présente dans · 2008 COMMANDE DE le Concerto pour violoncelle ( ) ou dans les Liturgies de 2000 Bravo! Vail Music Festival, l’ombre ( ). Anne-Marie McDermott, Artistic Director · CRÉATION Ces multiples facettes cohabitent dans Les Cités de le 9 juillet 2017, dans le cadre Lovecraft, une œuvre d’une grande richesse de contrastes, de Bravo! Vail Music Festival, au discours volontiers imprévisible. Ce voyage symphonique Vail (Colorado, USA), par le Philadelphia Orchestra, sous la en trois mouvements rend hommage à l’univers onirique direction de Stéphane Denève d’Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), en particulier la longue nouvelle fantastique A la recherche de Kadath, qui opmaak booklet Lost Horizon.indd 5 05/02/2019 20:20 explore le monde des rêves. “Ce sont les Le Concerto pour violon “Les Hori- visions tour à tour merveilleuses ou ter- zons Perdus” fait à nouveau référence à une rifiantes des cités que traverse le héros du œuvre littéraire : le roman de James Hilton texte qui m’ont donné envie d’écrire cette Lost Horizon (1933), adapté au cinéma par œuvre”, explique le compositeur. A la lu- Frank Capra. Dans ce livre, quatre voya- mière enchanteresse de Céléphaïs (i.) ré- geurs découvrent par accident la lamaserie pondent la noirceur et l’angoisse de Kadath tibétaine de Shangri-La, un lieu utopique (ii.) pour s’achever dans le délire de joie de hors du monde et hors du temps. Le per- La Cité du soleil couchant (iii.). sonnage principal est déchiré entre son en- vie de retourner dans la vie active qu’il avait On retrouve une vaste palette de cou- à Londres ou celle de rester pour toujours leurs dans le Concerto pour saxophone “A dans cette retraite où la mort même semble Kind of Trane”, où Guillaume Connesson abolie. C’est ce déchirement et cette opposi- convoque le souvenir du jazzman John tion radicale entre la vie active et l’absolu de Coltrane, véritable “incarnation” de l’ins- la vie intérieure qui constituent la trame du trument soliste tel qu’il l’imagine. Les dif- Concerto pour violon. La construction de la férents mouvements sont des hommages partition reflète ce contraste : les “Voyages” directs à certains de ses albums, Love supre- (mouvements i. et iii.) sont des mouve- me dans le i. (“There is none other”), puis ments rapides très actifs et les “Shangri-La” Ballads dans le ii. Le final (“Coltrane on the (mouvements ii. et iv.) de calmes médita- Dancefloor”), joue avec la liberté de phrasé tions. des improvisateurs de jazz, confrontée à la musique la plus robotique qui soit, c’est-à- Enfin, Le Tombeau des Regrets est un dire la dance d’aujourd’hui. Le compositeur grand mouvement lent construit autour de propose ainsi une nouvelle variation musi- quatre thèmes. Dans cette pièce, Guillaume cale de l’humain contre la machine. Connesson a été tenté par “une écriture très linéaire, presque chorale, d’explorer des opmaak booklet Lost Horizon.indd 6 05/02/2019 20:20 sentiments intimes, ceux du temps qui passe, en Guillaume Connesson was born in des regrets enfouis et des impossibles re- 1970, at a key point in the development of tours”. Etonnante réussite d’une pièce qua- music. The ‘dictatorship of serial music’ that siment sans effet, dont les qualités d’écriture had been imposed without much resistance, se trouvent dans l’épure et non plus dans la as if nothing new could ever be invented, was parure. La preuve que Guillaume Connesson on its last legs. Major figures saw their intran- n’a décidément pas fini de nous surprendre. sigent trajectory waver. Composers of various origins and training, after an avant-garde © Bertrand Dermoncourt period, were once again investing in tonality, each in their own way. Pre-war perspectives returned in other forms. A transitional era, gradually recovering the fertile paths of cre- ation… It was in this context that Guillaume Connesson, a few years later, threw himself into the adventure of composition. His first steps were guided by a need for openness ex- pressed by the marked influence of popular music, film and dance, without borders or taboos. The shackles of experimental ‘con- temporary’ music have been burst by this virtuoso and hedonistic music. Guillaume Connesson is today near- ing 50 and thus what is considered maturity, as attested to, after ‘Lucifer’ (2014) and ‘Pour opmaak booklet Lost Horizon.indd 7 05/02/2019 20:20 sortir au jour’ (2016), by this new double al- grets reveal a more sombre expressive vein, bum conducted by Stéphane Devène at the one already present in the Cello Concerto helm of the Brussels Philharmonic.
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