ÉGLISE DE TAVERNY
MÉMOIRESSUNDAY JUNE 9TH 2024 - 5:00PM
Marie Perbost, soprano
Magenta Quartet
Surrounded by the musicians of the Quatuor Magenta, soprano Marie Perbost sings of remembrance, set to music by five 20th-century women composers.
When she composed her String Quartet in 1932, Rosy Wertheim was in Paris, a happy period in her life during which she ran a salon where Arthur Honegger and Elsa Barraine met. She returned to the Netherlands in 1937, shortly before the German occupation of 1940, which led her to be persecution for her Jewish origins. Her String Quartet – like her early work Tsigane dans la Lune (Gypsy in the Moon), written in 1916 – resonates today as a reminder of the blossoming years she spent in France, which she was never able to revive after the war. Henriëtte Bosmans followed a similar trajectory: her Quartet of 1927 also testifies to a prosperous period in her career (in the 1930s, she was a regular soloist at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw), which was brutally interrupted by the war. The memory of a music from the past is also at the heart of Yessori, by composer Soo Yeon Lyuh, who attempts to evoke, through the sound of the quartet’s strings, that of the haegeum, a traditional Korean bowed string instrument. Vally Weigl’s Songs of Remembrance , composed to texts by Emily Dickinson, distill a vision of remembrance that is both more metaphysical – linked to the melancholy of time passing – and more sentimental – the regret of not having been able to live out a longed-for love, which can also be sensed in Marguerite Monnot. A way out of this regret, however, emerges in Charlotte Sohy’s music, whose Meditations promise peace, here associated with religious faith.
PROGRAMME
MÉMOIRES
SOO YEON LYUH (1980 – )
Yessori, sound from the past
for string quartet
ROSY WERTHEIM (1888 – 1949)
Quatuor à cordes
Le Tsigane dans la lune
for voice and string quartet
HENRIËTTE BOSMANS (1895-1952)
Quatuor à cordes
CHARLOTTE SOHY (1887-1955)
Méditations op.18
for voice and string quartet
VALLY WEIGL (1894-1982)
Songs of Remembrance
for voice and string quartet
MARGUERITE MONNOT (1903-1961)
L’Hymne à l’amour
for voice and string quartet
DISTRIBUTION
MARIE PERBOST, soprano
MAGENTA QUARTET
MARIE PERBOST
Marie Perbost joined the prestigious Maîtrise de Radio France, where she performed in France and abroad under the baton of the greatest conductors. After graduating from the CNSMDP, she studied with Alain Buet and Cécile de Boever, where she discovered the subtleties of being an opera singer. She completed her training at the Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris. In 2016, she was named Révélation Lyrique by ADAMI. After obtaining a master’s degree with unanimous acclaim, she went on to perfect her skills at the Academies of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Salzburg Festival, where she was lucky enough to sing her first Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The Harmonia Mundi label offered her the chance to record her first album, ‘Une jeunesse à Paris’, devoted to the French music of the Roaring Twenties, mixing melodies, songs and operettas with Les Frivolités parisiennes and Joséphine Ambroselli. Together with her recital partner, they have won numerous prizes, including the Grand Prix of the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Competition in 2015. Both singer and actress, she performs a wide range of operatic roles. She has performed at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Capitole de Toulouse with Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet) in the role of La Folie in Platée by Rameau and the role of Phénice in Armide by Lully. Marie Perbost has received grants from the Fondation l’Or du Rhin (Fondation de France), the Meyer Foundation and the Kriegelstein Foundation.
MAGENTA QUARTET
The Quatuor Magenta is a string quartet founded in 2021 and based in Paris. For the next few seasons, they will be resident artists at ProQuartet – Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre, and junior residents at the Fondation Singer-Polignac. Winners of the Fnapec 2023 competition, where they were awarded the distinction of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, they also received the 3rd prize at the Zukunftsklang Stuttgart 2022 competition and were finalists in the 8th Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna. The Magenta Quartet has been invited to perform at numerous festivals throughout France (Musikfest Parisienne, La Chaise-Dieu, La Roque d’Anthéron, Les Instants de Grasse, Un Été en France with Gautier Capuçon, and the Vibre! and Radio France Montpellier festivals), as well as in Switzerland (Festival de la Collégiale in Neuchâtel) and Germany (Klangraum Konzerte in Cologne). They took part in the recording of flutist Julien Beaudiment‘s California Dreamin’, released in 2023. This season also features a strong emphasis on contemporary music, with the quartet taking part in the Kronos Quartet’s “50 for the Future” marathon at the Biennale des Quatuors de la Philharmonie de Paris, recording Olivier Korber’s quartet and programming one by Yves Balmer. The quartet receives guidance from the Ébène Quartet at their academy in Munich, from Rainer Schmidt of the Hagen Quartet in Basel, and is a member of the Elite programme at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, sponsored by the Modigliani Quartet. He receives support from the Fondation Culture et Musique under the auspices of the Fondation de France and from ADAMI. It is produced by Chapeau l’Artiste Production.
ÉGLISE NOTRE-DAME DE TAVERNY
Notre-Dame de Taverny Church
Rue Jean XXIII- 95150 Taverny
DRIVE FROM PARIS
Take the highway A15 to Cergy-Pontoise, take the exit no. 4 and follow the signs to Taverny.
WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
- Line H (from Gare du Nord, platforms 30 to 36) or RER C to Pontoise, get down at Montigny-Beauchamp + 15 min walk.
- Line H (from Gare du Nord, platforms 30 to 36) to Persan-Beaumont, get down at Taverny + 15 min walk.
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