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By Sophie Bourdais
Is Johannes Brahms, important figure of the German Romanticism, still able to inspire the composers of nowadays? Agnès Pyka, violonist and artistic director of the eclectical ensemble Des Équilibres, should have known already the, positive, answer to that question when she asked the French composers Philippe Hersant (1948), Nicolas Bacri (1961) and Graciane Finzi (1945) to create a piece inspired by the Sonata for violin and piano op. 78, 100, 108. [ …] Regenlied (“rain song”) by Philippe Hersant echos one of Brahms themes. With the support of the piano, the oeuvre takes the violin to dazzling hights, while encouring it sometimes to duplicate itself, as if it wants to observe its own reflection.
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