Fado em Movimento

Following in the footsteps of the ensemble’s previous cross-cultural projects, it was the encounter with Cristina Branco, an undisputed star of Fado, and the magic of her voice that sparked this collaboration. Bringing together the contemporary aesthetic of our three bows with the traditional repertoire of Fado is the challenge we wanted to take on.

Ensemble Des Equilibres,
artistic direction and first violin –  Agnès Pyka
Viola – Sébastien Lévy
Cello – Thibaut Reznicek
Vocals – Cristina Branco
Portuguese guitar – Bernardo Couto

Album release date: February 28, 2025.  Purchase the album here 

César Franck Complete Chamber Music

To mark the bicentenary of  César Franck ‘s birth ,  the ensemble Des Equilibres  celebrates this anniversary by highlighting the complete chamber music for strings in a four-CD set.  This pays tribute to one of the greatest figures of French music in the second half of the 19th century. His work, poised between spirituality and sensuality, was at once innovative, enigmatic, seductive, and powerfully evocative.

Ensemble Des Equilibres,
artistic direction and first violin –  Agnès Pyka
piano –  Sandra Chamoux
cello –  Damien Ventula
cello –  Jeremy Genet
violin –  Marie Orenga
viola –  Emmanuel Haratyk
double bass –  Rémi Demangeon

Album release date: June 23, 2023.  Purchase the album here 

Voyage avec un violon seul

“Even though the first lockdown forced us into isolation, I felt the urge to escape, to wander with my instrument. A solitary stroll, since deprived of my chamber music companions, I still had this instrument to explore and dream with .”

Agnès Pyka traverses four centuries of music here, following the thread of the violin. A versatile instrument, sometimes dance-like, sometimes virtuosic, the sound of the violin is also the link between different musical aesthetics.

Recorded in April, the album was released  digitally on November 26, 2021 by the  Klarthe label.
Physical release on February 25, 2022.

Agnès Pyka, violin

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Brahms Aujourd’hui

Following an exclusive commission from Ensemble Équilibres, Nicolas Bacri, Philippe Hersant and Graciane Finzi created three exceptional compositions in 2018 echoing Brahms’ sonatas.

Ensemble Des Equilibres:
Agnès Pyka – violin
Laurent Wagschal – piano

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Sonatas 4, 5, 6 for violin and piano

Mieczysław WEINBERG

In the first installment of this series dedicated to his violin sonatas, we explored Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s (1919–1996) first three attempts in the genre. In the last three, the composer seems to deliver very personal messages in a perfectly controlled form, both very dense and very free.

Ensemble des Equilibres
Agnès Pyka, violin
Dimitri Vassilakis, piano

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Sonatas 1, 2, 3 for violin and piano

Mieczysław WEINBERG

An odyssey of terror: the early violin sonatas of Mieczysław Weinberg.
Ten or fifteen years ago, only connoisseurs knew who Mieczysław Weinberg was. Then, authors like David Fanning, Per Skans, Tommy Persson, Martin Anderson, and Robert Reilly (in Surprised by Beauty: A Listener’s Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music) passionately introduced him to a small but growing audience. And today, Weinberg is the very archetype of the great, overlooked composer experiencing a posthumous, albeit tragic, renaissance.

Ensemble Des Equilibres
Agnès Pyka, violin
Laurent Wagschal, piano

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Des Cordes Marines

Touched by the beauty and artistic importance of three great but little-known works: the string trios of Jean Cras, Joseph-Ermend Bonnal and Albert Roussel, fundamental pieces of the 20th-century French repertoire, Des Équilibres has made it its mission to immortalize them in the form of a record, in order to offer the general public the pleasure of discovering them, and to ensure that these works receive the posterity that is due to them.

• Joseph-Ermend BONNAL: Trio for violin, viola and cello (1934)
• Jean CRAS: String Trio No. 3 (1926)
• Albert ROUSSEL: String Trio Op. 58 (1937)

Ensemble des Equilibres
Agnès Pyka, violin
Blandine Leydier, viola
Armance Quero, cello

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The 44 Violin Duets by Béla Bartók

Recorded in Paris in the autumn of 2012
by Agnès Pyka and Jan Talich

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Des Equilibres records SANDOR VERESS

The ongoing search for new or unpublished repertoire led Des Équilibres to dedicate its first recording to the two quartets of the Hungarian-born composer Sandor Veress, thus achieving the world premiere of the second of these works.

SANDOR VERESS

• FIRST STRING QUARTET
• SECOND STRING QUARTET (world premiere recording)
• STRING TRIO

Ensemble des Equilibres,
published by HUNGAROTON – Recorded in Budapest from February 14th to 20th, 2011,
4**** CLASSICA

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