FULL Ravel en mille éclats Paris 2023 Klaus Mäkelä, Sabine Devieilhe, Marie-Laure Garnier

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Ravel en mille éclats  
• Composer: Ravel Maurice  
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: Philharmonie de Paris, France  
• Recorded: 2023
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Sabine Devieilhe, Marie-Laure Garnier
• Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä  
• Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris  
• Chorus: Accentus choir Marie-Laure Garnier  
• Chorus Master: Laurence Equilbey  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: ARTE, Philharmonie de Paris  
• TV Director: François-René Martin, Gordon  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, desubs, frsubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

During a poetic stroll through the emblematic places of the life of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), the composer of “Boléro” reveals himself through his music, conducted in particular by Klaus Mäkelä and played by great French performers.

Who was Maurice Ravel, described as a shy and elegant dandy, conscientious and solitary, whose 150th birthday is being celebrated in 2025? Born in 1875 and died in 1937, the composer ” was reluctant to talk about himself “, wrote the musicologist Roland-Manuel in the introduction to the Esquisse autobiographique that the composer agreed to dictate to him in 1928, for want of consenting to an interview. Apart from this short document, which above all illustrates the discretion he displayed throughout his life, the father of Boléro  left as only testimonies the few writings, photos and short films in which he appears.

The duo of directors François-René Martin and Gordon have imagined a purely musical evocation of the father of Boléro . Protagonists without words, the Orchestre de Paris and maestro Klaus Mäkelä, pianist Bertrand Chamayou, coloratura soprano Sabine Devieilhe, the Modigliani quartet, the Accentus choir and its conductor Laurence Equilbey, soprano Marie-Laure Garnier, violinist Raphaëlle Moreau and pianist Célia Oneto Bensaid take on his masterpieces as well as lesser-known pieces. In each chapter of the film, a score played bears witness to a particular aspect of his life and personality. Filmed in the house-museum of Montfort-l’Amaury (where Ravel lived until his death), in the church of Ciboure (where he was baptized), in the convent of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette, built by Le Corbusier in Évreux, and in the Philharmonie de Paris, this film anchors each work in an aesthetic universe rich in plays of light and color, a singular palimpsest where images of the past and the present are superimposed.
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