Concert : “Nocturnal Metamorphoses” by the Opera of Rouen Normandie

When the night comes, everything changes! Ligeti opens his Métamorphoses nocturnes and Beethoven plays one of his finest string quartets.

What do you hear in the silence of the night? Nervous strings, heady pulsations, a metamorphosis is at work to surprise us until the last movement punctuated by almost unreal glissandi. Because yes, we are in Ligeti’s nocturnal dream. It is also an incandescent stream that runs through the third string quartet that Beethoven dedicates to Count Razumowsky. Alternately exuberant and meditative, it takes us on a powerful sonic trajectory, made up of disturbances and lights. The finale, particularly unleashed, confirms the immense register of the composer and leaves us with this strange feeling of having swirled between shadows and ether.

Program

György Ligeti String Quartet No. 1, “Nocturnal Metamorphoses “
Ludwig van Beethoven Quartet for strings opus 59 n°3

Musicians

Violins Teona Kharadze, Tristan Benveniste
Viola Patrick Dussart
Cello Hélène Latour

This concert organized by the Opéra De Rouen Normandie, will take place in the auditorium of the musée des impressionnismes Giverny

* under 18, students