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.

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"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.

In a highly anticipated piece, Georges Aperghis, the master of musical theatre, delivers an accordion concerto. An instrument that has long been underrated before coming back to the scene thanks to composers like Luciano Berio, who wrote a wonderful Sequenza, or Mauricio Kagel. Georges Aperghis composed this concerto for Teodoro Anzellotti, a virtuoso of contemporary accordion. Popular sounds and experimental effects combine to create an unprecedented musical discourse offering an irresistible dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra.

Pascal Dusapin is definitely busy at the moment. To be sung, a wonderful chamber opera, is being performed at La Monnaie, a venue that has forged a faithful bond with Pascal Dusapin. Premiered in 1994 at the Théâtre des Amandiers, in the framework of the Festival d’Automne, this work, with its original scenography by James Turrell, based on a text by Gertrude Stein “A lyrical opera made by two”, innovated as much in the use of the voice (three solo soprano) as in the instrumental writing, together with electronics. This new production will give the opportunity to rediscover the third opera by Pascal Dusapin, this time directed by Sjaron Minailo.