Ludwig van Beethoven  (1770-1827)
Duo for violin and cello in C major WoO 27 No. 1 (1810) (15 minutes)

Reinhold Glière  (1874-1956)
Duo for violin and cello Opus 39 (15 minutes)

Zoltan Kodaly  (1882-1967)
Duo for violin and cello Opus 7 (1914) (30 minutes)

Maurice Ravel  (1875-1937)
Sonata for Violin and Cello (1920) (22 minutes)

Erwin Schulhoff  (1894-1942)
Duo for violin and cello (1825) (18 minutes)

Thierry de Mey  (1956)
‘Ice’ – Duo for violin and cello (1991) (12 minutes)

Georg Friedrich Handel  (1685-1759)
Passacaglia, from the suite for harpsichord, transcription by Johan Halvorsen (12 minutes)

José María Sánchez Verdú  (1968)
‘Nada’ (2007) (7 minutes)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  (1756-1791)
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola K 364 (1770) (23 minutes)
Duo No. 1 K423 in G minor (17 minutes)

Graciane Finzi  (1945)
Interrupted Moments (11 minutes)

Handel-Halvorsen  (1865-1759) / (1864-1935)
Passacaglia (10 minutes)

Bohuslav Martinu  (1890-1959)
Madrigals (17 minutes)

Edith Canat de Chizy  (1950 – )
“Wild” for viola and cello (2003) (10 minutes)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  (1756-1791)
Sonata for piano and violin in C major K296 (1778) (22 minutes)
Sonata for piano and violin in B-flat major K378 (1781) (23 minutes)
Sonata for piano and violin in F major K376 (1781) (17 minutes)

Ludwig van Beethoven  (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 5, ‘Spring’ (1800) (23 minutes)

Robert Schumann  (1810-1856)
Sonata for piano and violin No. 1 in A minor, Opus 105 (1851) (30 minutes)

Johannes Brahms  (1833-1897)
Piano Sonata No. 1 in G major, Opus 78 (1878/79) (21 minutes)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Opus 100 (1886) (20 minutes)
Piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Opus 108 (1878/87) (30 minutes)

César Franck  (1822-1890)
Sonata for piano and violin in A major FWV 8 (1886) (30 minutes)

Zoltan Kodaly  (1882-1967)
‘Adagio’ – Duo for piano and violin (1905) (10 minutes)

Claude Debussy  (1862-1918)
Sonata for piano and violin in G minor (1916/1917) (22 minutes)

Béla Bartók  (1881-1945)
Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 2 (1921) (25 minutes)

Maurice Ravel  (1875-1937)
Sonata for piano and violin in G major No. 2 (1923/1927) (25 minutes)
Posthumous sonata (12 minutes)

Francis Poulenc  (1899-1963)
Sonata for piano and violin in G (1942/1943) (25 minutes)

Edvard Grieg  (1843-1907)
Sonata for piano and violin in C minor Opus 45 No. 3 (1887) (30 minutes)

Gabriel Fauré  (1845-1924)
Sonata No. 1 for piano and violin, Opus 13 (1875) (26 minutes)

Albéric Magnard  (1865-1914)
Sonata for piano and violin Opus 13 (1901) (40 minutes)

Sergei Prokofiev  (1891-1953)
Sonata No. 2 in D Major Op.94 (1923) (25 minutes)

Mieczyslaw Weinberg  (1919-1996)
Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 1, Op. 12 (1943) (23 minutes)
Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, Op. 15 (1944) (20 minutes)
Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano, Op. 37 (1947) (21 minutes)
Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano, Op. 39 (1947) (20 minutes)
Sonata No. 5 for Violin and Piano, Op. 53 (1953) (25 minutes)
Sonata No. 6 for Violin and Piano, Op. 136 bis (1982) (11 minutes)

Graciane Finzi  (1945 -)
Sonata in 4 movements for violin and piano,  Winternacht  (2018) (18 minutes)

Nicolas Bacri  (1961 -)
Sonata No. 4 for violin and piano, Opus 148 (2017-18) (18 minutes)

Philippe Hersant  (1948 -)
Sonata for violin and piano,  Regenlied  (2018) (15 minutes)

Camille Saint-Saëns  (1835-1921)
‘Fantaisie’ – Duo for violin and harp Opus 124 (1907) (20 minutes)

Jules Massenet  (1842-1912)
‘Meditation from Thaïs’ – Duo for violin and harp (1894) (5 minutes)

Valeri Kikta (1941)
Sonatas for violin and harp (1998) (30 minutes)

Niccolò Paganini  (1782-1840)
‘Grande Sonata’ – Duo for violin and guitar in A major (1805) (21 minutes)

Manuel de Falla  (1876-1946)
‘Seven Spanish Folk Songs’ Duos for violin and guitar (1914/1915) (12 minutes)

Astor Piazzolla  (1921-1992)
‘La historia del tango’ – Duo for violin and guitar (1967) (42 minutes)
‘Oblivion’ (1984) (4 minutes)

Aram Khachaturian  (1903-1978)
‘Lyric Poem’ – Duo for violin and guitar (8 minutes)

Béla Bartók  (1881–1945)
Romanian Dances (7 min)

Heitor Villa Lobos  (1887 – 1959)
Bacchianas Brasilairas (5 mins)

Graciane Finzi  (1945-)
‘Osmose’ – (2001) (12 minutes)

Joseph Haydn  (1732-1809)
Trio in E major for two violins and cello Hob V No. 19 (1765) (15 minutes)
Trio in G major for two violins and cello Hob V No. 20 (1755/1765) (13 minutes)
Trio in D major for two violins and cello Hob V No. 21 (1768) (15 minutes)
Trio in D major for two violins and cello Hob V No. D3 (1767) (13 minutes)

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
‘Terzetto’ – Trio en ut majeur pour deux violons et alto Opus 74 (1887) (20 minutes)

Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
‘Sérénade’ – Trio pour deux violons et alto Opus 12 (1919/1920) (21 minutes)

François Rossé (1945)
‘Soupir cosmique’ – Trio pour deux violons et alto (1987) (8 minutes)

Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915)
Trio pour deux violons et alto en ré majeur Opus 21 (1907) (22 minutes)

Johannes Brahms  (1833-1897)
Trio in E-flat major for violin, horn and piano Opus 40 (1864-1865) (29 minutes)

György Ligeti  (1923-2006)
Trio for violin, horn and piano (1982) (23 minutes)

Alban Berg  (1885-1935)
‘Adagio’ – Trio for violin, clarinet and piano (1927) (14 minutes)

Aram Khachaturian  (1903-1978)
Trio for violin, clarinet and piano (1919/1920) (20 minutes)

Béla Bartók  (1881-1945)
‘Contrastes’ – Trio for violin, clarinet and piano Sz 111 (1938/1940 (25 minutes)

Jacques Ibert  (1890-1962)
Trio for violin, cello and harp (1944) (15 minutes)

Henriette Renié  (1875-1956)
Trio for violin, cello and harp (25 minutes)

Max Bruch  (1838-1920)
Trio for violin, cello and harp Opus 83 (1910) (37 minutes)

Marlos Nobre  (1939)
Trio for violin, cello and piano (1960) (18 minutes)

Camille Saint-Saëns  (1835-1921)
Trio No. 2 for violin, cello and piano (1891/1892) (34 minutes)

Johannes Brahms  (1833-1897)
String Quartet in G minor for strings and piano, Opus 25 (1857/1861) (40 minutes)
String Quartet in C minor for strings and piano, Opus 60 (1856/1875) (35 minutes)

Gabriel Fauré  (1845-1924)
String Quartet No. 1 in C minor for strings and piano, Opus 15 (1876/1879) (30 minutes)
String Quartet No. 2 in C minor for strings and piano, Opus 15 (1876/1877) (32 minutes)
String Quartet No. 2 in G minor for strings and piano, Opus 45 (1886/1887) (32 minutes)

Ernest Chausson  (1845-1899)
Piano Quartet Op. 30 (1897)

Jean Françaix  (1912-1997)
Quartet for violin, viola, cello and English horn (1934) (20 minutes)

José María Sánchez Verdú  (1968)
‘Kitab 4’ (1998) (12 minutes)

Mel Bonis  (1858 – 1937)
Nocturne, opus 16 manuscript (1892) (10 minutes)

Max Reger  (1873-1916)
Quintet for Strings and Oboe (1915) (32 minutes)

Toru Takemitsu  (1930-1996)
‘Meanwhile’ Quintet for Strings and Oboe (1986) (10 minutes)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  (1756-1791)
String Quintet in G minor K. 516 (1787) (35 minutes)

Johannes Brahms  (1833-1897)
String Quintet in G major No. 2 Opus 111 (1890) (29 minutes)

Alexander von Zemlinsky  (1871 – 1942)
String Quintet, 1st movement (1894)

Franz Schubert (A.Reimann) (1797-1828)
Mignon for soprano and string quartet (1995) (5 minutes)

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Quartet No. 3 Opus 32 (1916) (22 minutes)

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 10 with voice (1907) (30 minutes)

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Il tramonto, lyric poem for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (1914) (16 minutes)

Music & Dance

A multidisciplinary show in 4 parts

• MEMORY OF STAR EARTH Trio for strings ‘Cosmic Sigh’ (1987/88)
• NIGHT WIFE: Trio for strings ‘Melusine’ (1999)
• ASCENDANCE: String Quartet ‘Cordal Voices’ (1987)
• EASTERN MOVEMENT: String Quintet with piano (2009) with traditional Japanese drums (Taiko).

Music:
François Rossé

Free choreography:
Shiro Daïmon

Staging:
François Rossé & Shiro Daïmon

Performers:
Ensemble Des Équilibres & François Rossé, piano

Dance recital (1 hour 30 minutes)

Music :

• Bach Chaconne from Bach’s 2nd Partita for solo violin • 2nd movement of Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello • 4th movement of Ravel’s Sonata for violin and cello • John Adams’s China Gates for solo piano
• Andante from Bach’s 2nd Sonata for Solo Violin / Godowsky (piano transcription) • Schubert’s Gute Nacht (piano transcription) • Prelude No. 4 in C-sharp Major from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier • Piazzolla’s Grand Tango for Cello and Piano
• Blues from Ravel’s Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano • Schubert’s Trio No. 2, Op. 100, 2nd movement for violin, cello and piano

Choreography by
Christophe Garcia

Performed by
Ensemble Des Equilibres and the company La Parenthèse

A Transfigured Night:

Multidisciplinary variation for string sextet, two dancers and video

The project Une Nuit Transfigurée was born from the meeting of Agnès Pyka, first violin of the ensemble, with David Thelim, a painter from Marseille, and a shared desire to create a dialogue between their art.

Naturally the project developed around Arnold Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night , inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem for the musical part, complemented by the commission to composer Graciane Finzi of two works for string sextet, and movements from quartets No. 5 and No. 4 and the string quintet by Alexander Zemlinsky.

Program

Arnold Schoenberg:
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for string sextet in D minor, Opus 4 (1899)

Alexander Von Zemlinsky
String Quintet, 1st movement (1894)
Quartet No. 1 Op. 4, 1st movement (1896)
Quartet No. 4 Op. 25, 3rd movement (1936)

Graciane Finzi,
Saturated Spaces (2020) and The Land Before Birth (2020), string sextet, original composition

Artistic Director of the ensemble and first violin: Agnès Pyka;
Stage Director: Alain Fromager;
Video: Baptiste Klein;
Painting: David Thelim;
Composition: Graciane Finzi
; Lighting: Maurice Fouilhé

The ensemble Des Équilibres in string sextet.

Agnès Pyka, first violin | Jacques Gandard, second violin | Cécile Grassi, viola |
Alphonse Dervieux, viola | Caroline Boïta, cello | Guillaume Martigné, cello

Her: Prunelle Bry
Him: Tristan Benon

Production credits:
Co-production La Ferme du Buisson, Scène nationale de Marne-la-Vallée, Scène nationale Châteauvallon – Liberté and the ensemble Des Equilibres
Action funded by the Ile-de-France Region
With the support of the City of Toulon
With the support of SPEDIDAM, SACEM, FCM/CNM and the Maison de la Musique contemporaine
With the support of Théâtre des Salins, Scène nationale de Martigues and ACB, Scène nationale de Bar-le-Duc for their residency.

A program focused on the dialogue between classical music of Algerian and Western traditions, following the meeting between Agnès Pyka and Nour-Eddine Saoudi in 2011.

Program : 

Camille Sainte-Saëns
Trio for piano, violin and cello No. 2 in E minor, Op. 92

Nour-Eddine Saoudi
Mediterranean Communion
Bolero Zoraïda
Nouba d’Ziria (Algerian)
Nouba Dance

Performers:
Ensemble Des Equilibres & Nour-Eddine Saoudi (oud & vocals), accompanied by
Margarita Doulache (accordion),
Mokhtar Doulache (flute),
and Khaled Ghazzi (percussion)

A contemporary program with Hispanic colours, born from the encounter with the Sevillian ensemble.

Program :

José María Sánchez Verdú
Nada for cello and guitar
Kitab 4 for string trio and guitar

François Rossé
Mélusine for string trio

Graciane Finzi:
A Woman’s Love and Life for string trio;
Osmose for guitar and viola

Performers:
Ensemble Des Equilibres & Ensemble Zahir

A Franco-Turkish program for the opening of Marseille-Provence 2013

Program
Fazil Say (1970 – ) – Quartet for two violins, viola and cello Opus 29 ‘Divorce’ (2010) (16 minutes)

Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906-1972) – Piano Quintet (22 minutes)

Des Equilibres and Ray Lema, each drawing on their distinct styles, join forces for a special program blending chamber music, jazz, and African sounds. The Congolese jazz musician’s composition for the ensemble, in its string quartet format, and for himself is original and transcends musical boundaries.

Still Point
Piano Quintet (2013)
12 movements (1h15) (Mathissou, Santomé, Ka pwe pwe, Nalelela, Lousala, Salsa Vanilla, Aquarius, Twist and Smile, Motpi II, Mopti I, Valse Kongo, Matongué)

Performers:
Ensemble Des Equilibres & Ray Lema (vocals and piano)