The Portulan concert invites you to take multiple journeys between past and present, intimate and symbolic.
The Portulan concert invites us to multiple journeys between past and present, intimate and symbolic: the one begun 50 years ago with the creation of L'Itinéraire, an explorer and discoverer of the unknown territories of sound, of which Tristan Murail was one of the founders, and the one proposed by the composer through this cycle written for eight instruments and initiated in 1999.
Portulans are these ancient maritime maps, sometimes richly decorated, which helped navigators in the Middle Ages to find their way around at sea. Like a very personal map, the twelve pieces of the cycle are as many subjective stopovers of places, readings, striking experiences in the life of the composer: the road of Seven Lakes Drive in the United States or the scrubland near his places of residence, the correspondence of Van Gogh, Debussy, Jules Verne, André Gide and Jorge Luis Borges... up to the title of the work, which is also that of a collection of poems by his father, which marked him as a teenager. The last two pieces of Portulan, presented as a world premiere, bring the cycle to a close, and it is thus presented for the first time in its entirety.
The invitation is extended to follow Tristan Murail's autobiographical portulan, without compass or GPS, in order to better savour the charms and unforeseen events of the journey - even if it means losing oneself for the sake of finding oneself better.
Programme :
Tristan Murail,
Portulan world premiere of the cycle
La Chambre des cartes
Seven Lakes Drive
Foliage through the bells
Last news from the west wind
A letter from Vincent
Garrigue
Paludes
...Happy days...
The Circular Ruins
I would prefer not to...
ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς (L'aurore aux doigts de rose)*
New work*
Portulans are these ancient maritime maps, sometimes richly decorated, which helped navigators in the Middle Ages to find their way around at sea. Like a very personal map, the twelve pieces of the cycle are as many subjective stopovers of places, readings, striking experiences in the life of the composer: the road of Seven Lakes Drive in the United States or the scrubland near his places of residence, the correspondence of Van Gogh, Debussy, Jules Verne, André Gide and Jorge Luis Borges... up to the title of the work, which is also that of a collection of poems by his father, which marked him as a teenager. The last two pieces of Portulan, presented as a world premiere, bring the cycle to a close, and it is thus presented for the first time in its entirety.
The invitation is extended to follow Tristan Murail's autobiographical portulan, without compass or GPS, in order to better savour the charms and unforeseen events of the journey - even if it means losing oneself for the sake of finding oneself better.
Programme :
Tristan Murail,
Portulan world premiere of the cycle
La Chambre des cartes
Seven Lakes Drive
Foliage through the bells
Last news from the west wind
A letter from Vincent
Garrigue
Paludes
...Happy days...
The Circular Ruins
I would prefer not to...
ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς (L'aurore aux doigts de rose)*
New work*
