L'orchestre s'éclate en ville

In varied repertoires and musical forms determined by the musicians, these one-hour musical times become privileged spaces for interaction and dialogue between artists and audiences.

Wednesday, November 12, 16 p.m. – Renaud-Barrault Library, Avignon
Thursday, November 13, 12:30 p.m. – Lambert Collection, Avignon
From dawn to midnight
Violins, Marie-Anne Morgant and Pauline Dangleterre
Altos, Louise Mercier and Irénée Krumenacker
Cellos, Louise Rosbach and Nicolas Paul

String Quartet "Sunrise" Opus 76.4 in B-flat major by Joseph Haydn
Sextet "Transfigured Night" Op. 4 by Arnold Schoenberg

Thursday, November 13, 20 p.m. – Regional Conservatory, Avignon (Mozart Auditorium)
Songs of Love / Journey to the Land of Love from Spain to Kurdistan
Singing, Emma Prat
Clarinet, Mio Yamashita
Violins, Natalia Madera and Robin Magny
Alto, Irénée Krumenacker
Cello, Louise Rosebach
Double bass and arrangements, Matthias Courbaud

Eh fi amal – Ziad Rahbani/Fairuz (Lebanon)
Avre tu puerta cerrada - Traditional ladino
Noćas mi srce pati – Traditional Bosnian
Amygdalaki tsakisa – Traditional Greek
Oy u vichnevomu sadu (O myliy miy) – Ukrainian traditional
Yovano Yovanke – Traditional Macedonian
Silava li min dikî – traditional Kurdish
Nostalgias – Juan Carlos Cobián/Estrella Morente (Spain)
Lamouni elli gharou menni – Hédi Jouini (Tunisia)
Kele kele – Komitas (Armenia)

"Farewell then, war songs. Let my verse take shape."
In six and five feet alternately:
You, gird your brow with myrtle, O my Muse, and modulate
"That odd number that Love desires!" Ovid, Elegy I

Celebrating love through song is what we offer you in this concert, a journey to the land of love, from Spain to Kurdistan. The songs you will hear are songs of the people, songs of love, more powerful than any "war songs."

Saturday November 15, 15 p.m. – Le Castelas, Rochefort-du-Gard
Sunday, November 16, 15 p.m. – Calvet Museum, Avignon
Romantic Reflections / Concert reading about women artists
Oboe, Thierry Guelfucci
Piano, Cosima Guelfucci

Notturno, from the "Musical Evenings Opus 6" for piano by Clara Schumann
Poem "I live, I die" by Louise Labé
Romances Opus 22 Nos. 2 and 3 for Oboe and Piano by Clara Schumann
Two Petrarch Sonnets No. 123 (I vidi in terra Angelica Costumi) and 104 (Pace ma non trovo) for Oboe d'amore and Piano by Franz Liszt, arr. Cosima Guelfucci
Poem "Of Love" by Nashmia Noormohamed
A tribute to Edith Piaf, Francis Poulenc's Improvisation XV for piano
Lamento / Andante espressivo / Final, Pieces for English Horn and Piano by Clémence Reiset de Grandval

Starting with sonnets by Petrarch, Franz Liszt in a transcription of Cosima for oboe d'amore and piano, we will hear passionately romantic pieces by Clémence de Grandval, Clara Schumann and Francis Poulenc's tribute to Édith Piaf for solo piano.

Saturday, November 15, 15 p.m. – Maison Jean Vilar, Avignon
Trip to America
Trumpet, Guillaume Degrugillier
Cors, Mathilde Dannière and Gaëlle Claudin
Trombone, Didier Comte

Kerry Turner Quartet 1
Program repertoire for Brass Quartet
A Portrait No2 by Georges Gershwin
The Conquest of Paradise by Vangelis
Maple leaf rag by Scott Joplin
West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein
The Pink Panther by Henry Mancini

From Broadway to New Orleans via the Hollywood studios, the brass quartet offers you a journey showcasing the many facets of North American musical culture.

On the program: the elegance of Gershwin, the passion of Turner, the emotion of Bernstein, the timeless charm of Joplin, but also popular styles such as jazz or film music.

By turns virtuoso or lyrical, tender or brilliant, our four musicians offer you a joyful escape to the heart of a century teeming with styles and influences.

A concert full of contrasts and colours where the musical America of the twentieth century is told in brass and breath.

Tuesday, November 18, 19 p.m. – Church of Saze
Wednesday, November 19, 15 p.m. – Petit Palais Museum, Avignon
Boccherini Training
Violins, Gabriella Kovacs, Marie-Anne Morgant
Alto, Louise Mercier
Cellos, Louise Rosbach, Dorine Lepeltier
Soprano, Clémence Niclas

Stabat Mater in F minor for string quintet and soprano by Luigi Boccherini

Thursday, November 20, 18 p.m. – Higher School of Art, Avignon (Champfleury Site)
Sunday, November 23, 17 p.m. – Delirium, Avignon
Clarinet Quintet
Violins, Teresa Martinez and Robin Magny
Alto, Irénée Krumenacher
Cello, Pierre Landy
Clarinet, Mio Yamashita

Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major K. 581 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 by Johannes Brahms

Separated by 102 years, these two quintets, flagship pieces of chamber music, and particularly of the clarinet repertoire, have much more in common than the similarity of their instrumentation.

In both works, a profound lyricism reigns, though of a very different character, born largely from the possibilities and sonic characteristics of the clarinet. Living in the last years of their lives, Mozart and Brahms were inspired by the artistry and virtuosity of two outstanding clarinetists of their time (Anton Stadler and Richard Mühlfeld, respectively) who would play a decisive role in the composition. In four movements, the two pieces also share an atypical opening to the first movement, where the clarinet arrives as an unexpected surprise, and a final movement in the form of a theme and variations that showcases all the instruments of the quintet.

Friday, November 21, 20 p.m. – Théâtre des Halles, Avignon
Quartet for five voices
Mistral Quartet
– Violins, Pauline Dangleterre and Marie-Anne Morgant
– Alto, Louise Mercier
– Cello, Louise Rosbach
Slam, Dizzylez

String Quartet "Sunrise" Opus 76.4 in B-flat major by Joseph Haydn

This concert originated from an arts and cultural education project conducted with minors incarcerated at the Avignon-Le Pontet Detention Center. For two months, through workshops focused on orchestral music and practice, they were introduced to slam poetry alongside Dizzylez. Their work culminated in a performance accompanied by a string quartet at the Avignon Detention Center.

On stage, you will find this quartet and Dizzylez, to relive and share this unique encounter between slam and the music of Joseph Haydn, interspersed with excerpts from the music of Philip Glass, Lionel Ginoux and Jules Mazyn.

Saturday, November 22, 10:30 a.m. – Utopia Cinema (Handling), Avignon
4tet Hybrid
Violin, Eugène Ducros
Double bass, Frédéric Béthune
Harp, Mathilde Giraud
Voice, Fiona Ait Bounou

Some musical universes seem destined never to meet, and yet; a few harp arpeggios underpinned by a swinging walking bass. Well-placed violin flourishes highlighting a voice that wanders between scat and lyricism.

This is what the 4tet Hybride offers: "a jam session atmosphere after an evening at the Opera." A tribute to jazz in the broadest sense of the term, to improvisation and to those impromptu musical interactions.

It's an ode to the joy of being together, to sharing and open-mindedness. Because after all... why not meet?

Saturday, November 22, 18 p.m. – Church of Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon
Sunday, November 23, 15 p.m. – Transversal Theatre, Avignon
Music without borders
Violin, Corinne Puel
Piano, Andret Mornet

Tango Jealousy by Jacob Gade
Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla
Pavane by Gabriel Fauré
Nocturne No. 20 by Frédéric Chopin
Michel Legrand Medley (solo piano)
Jazz suite “Baroque and blue” by Claude Bolling
The Infernal Tower by John Williams
I Remember Clifford by Benny Golson, in homage to Clifford, a trumpeter who died at 25.
A medley of Once Upon a Time in the West and Ennio Morricone's The Man with the Harmonica, in homage to Claudine Cardinale
Four Seasons, Summer, 3rd movement Presto by Antonio Vivaldi
Memories of Andrew Weber
My heart will go on by James Horner
A Man and a Woman by Francis Lai
Wonderful world by Louis Armstrong
Vittorio Monti's Czardas

Saturday, November 22, 19 p.m. – Le Grenier à Sel, Avignon
From the fifth to the quintet
Vernet Quartet
– Violins, Sophie Saint-Blancat and Eugène Ducros
– Alto, Irénée Krumenacker
– Cello, Emmanuel Lécureuil
Piano, Laetitia Grisi

String Quartet "The Fifths" in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2 by Joseph Haydn (composed in 1797) 
Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 by Anton Dvorak (composed in 1887)

Composed in 1797, the Quartet nicknamed The Fifths because of the interval of a fifth which predominates throughout the 1st movement, is one of the 6 famous quartets op.76 written at the end of Haydn's life (known as the "father" of the Quartet).

Let us now turn to the quintet, one of the masterpieces of romantic chamber music composed in 1887, this quintet by Dvorak blends classical forms and Czech folk colours. 

Free concerts with reservation at: communication@orchestre-avignon.com / +33 4 90 85 22 39

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