50/50
50/50
Henry Purcell
Crown the Altar (extrait de l’Ode « Celebrate this Festival », Z 321)
David Chalmin
Music for a while (d’après « Music for a while » de H. Purcell)
A : Music For A While
B : Hypnotic Cycles
C : Another Song
Martyn Harry
STAB (d’après Les Matassins de J.B. Lully)
David Chalmin
Let me freeze again (d’après King Arthur de H. Purcell)
Martyn Harry
Courante and Sarabande
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Les Matassins (Ballet Xerxès, LWV 12)
Gigue (Ballet de Toulouse, LWV 13)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
« Sans frayeur » (air de cour)
Martyn Harry
Pastorale (d’après Actéon de M.A. Charpentier)
David Chalmin
Ground Z (d’après Crown the Altar de H. Purcell)
Axelle Verner, mezzo soprano
Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu
Franck-Emmanuel Comte, organ and musical direction
Gaultier Durhin, visual conception and scenography
On stage:
1 soloist, 10 instrumentalists (string quintet, bassoon/flute, oboe/flute, theorbo/guitar, organ)
A cross between baroque sounds and contemporary creations, between French and English aesthetics.
Half Baroque, half contemporary, half French, half British: this is the challenge taken up here by Franck-Emmanuel Comte and Le Concert de L'Hostel Dieu. 50/50 presents in the same programme pieces by Lully and by Purcell, together with contemporary creations by the Frenchman David Chalmin, inspired by Purcell but also jazz/rock and minimalism, and the British composer Martyn Harry, inspired by Lully. Both contemporary composers combine the sounds of Baroque instruments with their own expression, thus removing borders and engaging in a dialogue involving different periods and different languages. Axelle Verner lends her mezzo voice and her unique personality to the vocal pages of this programme.
let me freeze again: video clip
50/50's interviews
FULL-LENGTH VIDEO ON CULTUREBOX - FRANCE TV
50/50'S PICTURES
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FRANCE INTER | 06.09.2022 | Stéphane Capron (14')
"The album is rich in diverse sounds."
"A poetic work [clip], beautiful to watch on youtube."
FRANCE MUSIQUE | 19.09.2022 | Emilie Munera (52')
"A very interesting program, which gets off the beaten tracks."
CLASSIQUE MAIS PAS HAS BEEN | 23.09.2022 | Claire de Castellane
"A spinning, heady, silky and strangely timeless music."
"The disc 50-50, gives to hear with talent that the contemporary music does not always answer the injunction to make new."
CONCERTCLASSIC | 25.09.2022 | Laurent Bury
"These different forms of hybridization are quite seductive, and the ensemble finds its usual sound to interpret with vigor two gigues composed by Lully."
RESMUSICA | 30.09.2022 | Jean-Luc Clairet
"50/50 sees ten musicians playing the six immediately seductive compositions, especially those of Chalmin: we can't resist his versions of Music for a while, Let me Freeze again or this amazing Ground Z."
TÉLÉRAMA | 27.10.2022 | Sophie Bourdais
« … les instrumentistes et la mezzo soprano Anaïs Bertrand y entrelaçaient si adroitement le baroque de Purcell et Lully avec les pièces post-minimalistes de Martyn Harry et de David Chalmin, qu’on a très vite renoncé à chercher qui avait fait quoi, quand et de quel côté de la Manche. »
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Produced by Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu
Avec le soutien de Diaphonique, fonds franco-britannique pour la musique contemporaine en partenariat avec la Sacem, les Amis de l’Institut français du Royaume-Uni, le British Council, le Ministère de la Culture, l’Institut français, le Centre national de la musique, la Fondation Salabert, le Crédit Agricole Centre-Est, la Caisse d'Epargne.
With the support of the Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, the Centre National de la Musique and the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
In partnership with the London festival of baroque music, Oxford University, the Ambronay Festival, Label Aparté and Libelo Productions.
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2 sept. 2022 50/50: disc release
