CHÂTEAU DE LA ROCHE-GUYON

Musiques sur l'eau

SUNDAY JUNE 2ND 2024 - 5:00PM

Célia Oneto Bensaid, piano

Around Rita Strohl’s virtuoso cycle of Musiques sur l’ eau, an aquatic journey designed by pianist Célia Oneto Bensaid.

“At last, I was getting in touch with my time; a contact from which were to emerge […] the “Musiques sur l’eau”, works in which a predilection for the six-tone scale is displayed. I must say that, afterwards, I kept this primordial six-tone Rose to express what directly concerned the elements or the Spirits of Nature, foreign to our sensibility.” Composed in 1904, the Musiques sur l’eau marks a turning point in Rita Strohl’s writing, increasingly symbolist and focused on expressing a communion with nature, in particular that “Ocean beside which [she] first saw the light of day”. Rita Strohl’s Naiads (the first movement of this triptych) cross paths with other mythological creatures, such as Cécile Chaminade’s Ondine. The piano will follow Simone Blanchard’s Flot nocturne or describe Marcelle de Manziarly’s Impressions de mer… So many incarnations of these “Spirits of Nature” evoked by Rita Strohl: sometimes placid, like the water flowing through the canals in Jeanne Leleu’s En gondole, sometimes impetuous, like the waves that run up against the shore in Grève (Marcelle de Manziarly)… Sometimes humorous, sometimes melancholy or poetic, Marie Jaëll’s Les Jours pluvieux and Fernande Decruck’s Aquarium will round off this aquatic journey.

PROGRAMME

MUSIQUES SUR L’EAU

RITA STROHL (1865-1941)
Musiques sur l’eau

FERNANDE DECRUCK (1896-1954)
L’Aquarium

JEANNE LELEU (1898-1979)
En Gondole
(extract from En Italie)

MARIE JAËLL (1846-1925)
Les Jours pluvieux

SIMONE BLANCHARD (1893-)
Flot nocturne

CÉCILE CHAMINADE (1857-1944)
L’Ondine

MARCELLE DE MANZIARLY (1899-1989)
Impressions de mer

DISTRIBUTION

CÉLIA ONETO BENSAID, piano

CÉLIA ONETO BENSAID

A singular and committed personality, Célia chooses the repertoire she performs with care: American music (including her own transcriptions), French music, contemporary music and works by female composers all feature prominently in her programmes. A YAMAHA artist, she is the winner of numerous international competitions: Piano Campus, Fondation Banque Populaire, Cziffra, etc. She has been a guest at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Piano aux Jacobins, La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journée de Nantes, the Grand Théâtre de Harbin (China), Salamanca Hall (Japan), Wigmore Hall (London)… A much sought-after chamber musician, she has performed with Renaud Capuçon, Violaine Despeyroux, Elsa Dreisig, Marie-Laure Garnier, Olivia Gay, the Hanson Quartet, Léa Hennino, Héloïse Luzzati, Fiona McGown, Alexandre Pascal and others. Her first solo disc, American Touches (2018), is devoted to Gershwin and Bernstein, and Métamorphosis (2021) to Glass, Pépin and Ravel (5 Classica stars, contemporary disc of the week on France Musique, etc.). She also took part in a monograph on the unpublished works of Charlotte Sohy from La Boîte à Pépites, widely acclaimed by the international press. In January 2023, she released the CD ‘Chants Nostalgiques’ with Marie-Laure Garnier and the Quatuor Hanson, featuring French mélodie, which won TTTT from Télérama.

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