Tissages du Temps

‘French high art at its best’

Tissages du Temps (Weavings of Time) traces more than three centuries of French musical innovation, showing how each generation transcended the language of the one before while remaining deeply connected to its legacy. From the ornate architecture of the high Baroque to the colour-saturated sound world of impressionism and the radical harmonic and timbral innovations of spectralism, this concert reveals French music not as a sequence of isolated eras, but as a vibrant continuum — threads of imagination woven seamlessly across time. 

Performers Lyrebird Brass, Australia’s trailblazing brass ensemble, two-piano realisation by Kristian Chong and Timothy Young and Geneva’s world-renowned Ensemble Contrechamps, Tissages du Temps invites audiences to hear French music as a tapestry: centuries of imagination, innovation and influence woven into a single, immersive experience. 

PROGRAM

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Te Deum Prélude in D Major

François Couperin Les Barricades Mystérieuses (arr. Bernard Hughes)

Jean-Philippe Rameau Dardanus Suite (arr. Steven Verhlest)

Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2  (arr. Gryzanov)

Gerard Grisey Vortex Temporum 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


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