On 31 July, still at La Meije, it is once again Philippe Manoury and his Chaconne that we will hear performed by the expert and sensitive fingers of Marc Coppey on the cello - but also the latest work by François Meïmoun, Molpé, a duo for cello and piano (Jean-Frédéric Neuburger). What a programme! 

"Molpé is the song, both near and far at the same time, of a mermaid. A song to be perceived, to be followed, to be heard through the layers of the sea. The cello and the piano are here the same voice and they are a shared voice. The border between a song and its environment is at the heart of this work. Everything is song, even sounds that we cannot hear, until the need to go after them.  

The songs of Molpé are not to be taken for what they are, they must be followed, within us all, for each listener of this moment of cantillation. How do you hear in space? How do you hear underwater? How did we hear yesterday? It is the ear that hears but it is the being as a whole that listens. Hearing a song under water is an experience which, certainly, could be tried on the piano and the cello, instrument of being-here and being-elsewhere. Listening to a song is to abstract oneself from any history and any momentary narrative." (François Meïmoun) 

François Meïmoun - Molpé (2020)
for cello & piano
World premiere: 31 July 2021 
Festival Messiaen Pays de la Meije (Église de La Grave)
Marc Coppey,cello
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, piano
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