Vitrail: Shostakovich & Escaich (Live) Trio Messiaen and Trio Xenakis

• Thierry Escaich (b. 1965): Vitrail (Live):
• 1 Escaich: Vitrail (Live) 18:05
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975): Symphony No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 141:
• 2 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 141 (Arr. for Percussions, Celesta, Piano, Violin & Cello by Viktor Derevianko): I. Allegretto (Live) 08:12
• 3 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 141 (Arr. for Percussions, Celesta, Piano, Violin & Cello by Viktor Derevianko): II. Adagio (Live) 15:05
• 4 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 141 (Arr. for Percussions, Celesta, Piano, Violin & Cello by Viktor Derevianko): III. Allegretto (Live) 03:55
• 5 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 141 (Arr. for Percussions, Celesta, Piano, Violin & Cello by Viktor Derevianko): IV. Adagio (Live) 16:39
• Total Runtime 01:01:56

Info for Vitrail: Shostakovich & Escaich (Live)

Long-time accomplices, the Messiaen and Xenakis trios join forces to perform an intimate and moving version of Dmitri Shostakovich's last symphony, and mirror the world premiere recording of Thierry Escaich's Vitrail, a spectacular fresco specially composed for the occasion.

Trio Messiaen
Trio Xenakis

Trio Messiaen
It is through the meeting of these three young soloists that the Trio Messiaen was born in 2014.

All three graduated of the CNSM in Paris and winners of prestigious competitions (Jascha Heifetz competition, Felix Mendelssohn competition, Rodolfo Lipizer contest, competition of the societa umanitaria di Milano and Gabriel Fauré contest), they unite their musical personalities at the service of this joint project sealed by a friendship born between the walls of the Conservatoire.

The Trio Messiaen is thrown on the international stage after winning in 2018 – unanimously with congratulations from the jury – the 1st Prize of the International Chamber Music Competition of Lyon, as well as 5 special prizes.

Already acclaimed and distinguished by the media, the Trio Messiaen performs among others at the festivals de la Roque d’Anthéron, Deauville, Bélaye, Povoa de Varzim, at the Folles Journées in Nantes and Tokyo, at La Folle Nuit de Grenoble, and is the guest of France Musique for the show Plaisir du Quatuor hosted by Stéphane Goldet.

In 2019/20, the Trio Messiaen is amongst others the guest of the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, the Besançon International Festival, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Festival Musique en Eté in Geneva, the Auditorium du Louvre, the Grands Concerts in Lyon, the Septembre Musical de l’Orne, La Belle Saison, the Sociedad Filarmonica de Valencia…

Accomplices since their debut with the clarinetist Raphaël Sévère, they approach together the repertoire of the quartet in “Messiaen formation” of which the famous Quartet for the end of time is the masterpiece.

Their first recording in this formation has been released in 2018 (Mirare) and is naturally devoted to Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time and Thomas Adès’s Court Studies from the Tempest.

The Trio Messiaen is in residency at the Singer-Polignac Foundation since 2014.

Trio Xenakis
Composed by the three percussionists Adélaïde Ferrière, Emmanuel Jacquet and Rodolphe Théry, le Trio Xenakis revisits the repertoire through masterpieces of contemporary music, highlighting the percussion’s infinite diversity of timbre.

Post-graduates from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, the three musicians share a common interest for chamber music work and its various repertoire, both melodic and percussive and definitively eclectic. Joining the Fondation Singer-Polignac, in 2018, allows them to deepen the repertoire.

Paying tribute to Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), one of the first composer to focus on the soloist and chambrist potential of the instrument, using mathematical and rhythmical complexity. The trio is exploring musical masterpieces from the past century following the evolution of musical aesthetic, while remaining involved in contemporary creation.

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