François Meïmoun is an unclassifiable character: musicologist, arranger and, of course, composer. As his current movements show, the latter component is playing an increasingly large role on his journey. Chamber music has an important place, alongside a quartet with piano and a string quintet; his committed approach to the string quartet genre can be read within. Meïmoun’s aesthetic offers a subtle combination of timbral sophistication and formal intelligence, which are components that can also be found in his Viola Concerto. We are also looking forward to hearing his piece for piano four hands – an instrument Meïmoun is very familiar with as he plays himself.

After his orchestration of the « Sonate » by Ravel, warmly welcomed in Lyon, Yan Maresz is ready for a new revolution with the harp playing. In his concerto, Répliques, he worked on the amplification and the electronics added to this instrument. A game on the double, also served by the orchestra. The harp as you never heard it!

Cristian Măcelaru is joined by internationally acclaimed American cellist Alisa Weilerstein for a specially commissioned concerto by Pascal Dusapin with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on May 26, 2016.

"The piece has a very interesting combination of yearning lyricism and urgent drive. One could almost describe it as neo-romantic in that it is emotionally very open, and yet its orchestration and language is absolutely of today. There is an almost constant, very intricate rhythmic interplay between the orchestra and soloist that gives the piece a nervous energy, and it makes for some incredibly compelling writing." Alisa Weilerstein.

Daniel Hope « My tribute to Yehudi Menuhin » 

"Yehudi Menuhin is the reason I became a violinist. As he used to say, I fell into his lap as a baby of two" declares the musician.

Yan Maresz has taken a delightful gamble by orchestrating Violin Sonata by Maurice Ravel. It was a challenge because it is an intimate score written for chamber musicians. Maresz, lover of Ravel’s music, has selected a chamber orchestra in line with works such as Pavane pour une infante défunte or Tombeau de Couperin. 

Durand Salabert Eschig Editions are proud to see 5 of their composers rewarded with prestigious awards at the beginning of 2016.

This is the result of the encounter between the composer and conductor, Michel Tabachnik, and the writer Régis Debray.  With the collaboration of the Opéra national de Lyon and its director Serge Dorny, this duo has delivered an opera entitled Benjamin, plunging us into the life of Walter Benjamin through dreams and reality. This opera echoes the philosopher’s artistic and cultural influences with great aesthetic diversity. The staging was entrusted to John Fulljames and the musical direction to contemporary music specialist Bernhard Kontarsky.

The winning piece of the 2016 Competition for young Korean composers, organized by 2e2m in partnership with Editions Durand Salabert Eschig and the Institut français as well as Ensemble TIMF, is  "Flower blossom with waving" by Dong-Myung Kim. The work will be published by Editions Durand and premiered in Paris on March 10th at the Auditorium Marcel Landowski in Paris and performed again in Tongyeong on April 1st 2016.

Philippe Manoury’s love story with the string quartet is a relatively recent one. He wrote his first quartet in 1978 while he was studying, but the work was disregarded; his first official quartet is from 2010. It is entitled Stringendo, which isan Italian word indicating an acceleration in tempo and it was performed by theArditti Quartet, the contemporary music world’s legendary group.