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For this opening concert of ARCo 2025, the two resident ensembles, Métaboles and Ensemble Multilatérale, present a program combining works from the repertoire and new works. 

A program of diverse and varied aesthetics, featuring five personalities, five sensibilities that announce the color of this 2025 edition.
This color is undoubtedly that of eclecticism!




NOTE OF INTENT

Dérive 1 (1984)
music for instrumental ensemble - 6 min.
Pierre Boulez

"Parallel to the composition of Repons, Pierre Boulez created several short pieces for small ensemble, which exploit certain ideas that arose during the gestation of this large-scale work.
Dérive is based on the proliferation of a simple harmonic structure: a series of six chords that are permuted, each containing the six notes of the cryptogram of William Glock, to whom the piece is dedicated, followed by six transpositions forming an inverted cryptogram.
In this work, resonance plays a central role: indeed, the piano holds all the notes in the lowest octave throughout the piece, allowing the notes to sound freer and with greater harmonic richness. Ornamental and melodic figures intertwine in a climate of jubilation right up to the elided, abrupt ending." - Philippe Albèra, concert notes from March 21, 1992, Festival Archipel, Geneva / source : Ircam.fr

Mentions
Biography(s)
Location
Opening concert
ARCo 2025
Concert
Mon. July 7, 2025 | 7:00 pm Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)

DURATION
50 min.

FREE ADMISSION
By reservation only: billetterie@gmem.org

Distribution

Léo Warynski
artistic director

Les Métaboles
together

Valérie Philippin
soprano

Multilateral
together



PROGRAM

Pub 2 (2000)
spoken and sung phonemes for solo soprano—2 min.
Georges Aperghis

Clay
for piano and percussion — 10 min.
WORLD CREATION — ARCO Commission
Lanqing Ding

Rah I'm watching
for solo soprano — 3.5 min.
WORLD CREATION
Valerie Philippin

Dérive 1 (1984)
for six instruments - 6 min.
Pierre Boulez

I prefer flowers
for solo soprano — 2 min.
Jacques Rebotier

blue horizons, tinnitus, red train, inorganic lines and their sorrows
for six instruments — 10 min.
WORLD CREATION — ARCO Commission
Ikumi Yamauchi

Litany of life I didn't understand anything
for solo soprano — 3 min.
Jacques Rebotier

Specchio III, IV, V, VI (2022) — 15 min.
for six singers and six instruments
Johannes Schöllhorn

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