Notes d'Écume

Here’s the programme!

From 5 to 28 September, Leucate and the Notes d’&Eacume Festival invite some of the most renowned artists on the scène musical française for moments of musical sharing. The ensemble forms a fascinating mosaic of works, colours, composers, feelings and poetics. Friday 5 September, 9pm – Espace Henry de Monfreid Omar Hasan To open the 17th Notes d’Ecume Festival in style: the bewitching tango, a mélodie that « takes hold of us by épousant the torments of the heart and body. writes Omar Hasan. Tango is also a universal language, a link between peoples, a stopover at the end of the world, the amplified shock of a distant land that brings us closer together when it speaks of passion, love, melancholy, madness, happiness and freedom too. Rugby prodigy Omar Hasan hails from Argentina and has played right-back for some of the biggest clubs in the south of France, including Stade Toulousain. It was in Toulouse that he decided to put his gift for singing into practice and take the plunge into a professional career as a baritone. Omar Hasan and the gifted Grégory Daltin take you on a rhythmic and poetic musical journey as you embark on these dreamlike, insane or everyday stories, cradled by the magic of tango. With projectionsLength: 1 hour 20 minutes without intermission  

Saturday 6 September, 21:00 –  Espace Henry de Monfreid Two brothers, two Victoires de la musique classique: a rare consécration! Trumpeter Romain Leleu and tuba player Thomas Leleu combine their exceptional talent with pianist David Bismuth, well known to Toulousans for his work with the Orchestre national du Capitole. Together, they invite us on a musical journey through cinema, where each piece is associated with a film, bringing to life great masterpieces of classical and seventh art.    

Sunday 7 September, 11.00am  – Le Poulpe, Leucate Plage Romain Leleu and Thomas Leleu, virtuosos on the beach A trumpet and tuba duo: what a funny idea! Here are two siblings, Thomas and Romain Leleu, who have come up with the idea of creating a unique ensemble in the midst of pandemonium. If virtuosity, the origin of which is never to be forgotten – that of the word « vertu » – is immediately obvious to the two musicians, who play with astonishing complicity, it is even more the search for a universe of sound with unusual parts that fascinates them. Romain Leleu (trumpet) Thomas Leleu (tuba) Length: 1 hour without intermission*In the event of bad weather : the concert will be held at the Espace Henry de Monfreid, Port Leucate; announcements to this effect will be sent out, from Saturday 9/9, by email and via the festival’s social networks    

Friday 12 September, 21:00 – Espace Henry de Monfreid La Main Harmonique | Kaleidoscope Here the spectator experiences in a brief moment a teeming diversity of polyphonic music characteristic of the musical Renaissance and early Baroque in France, Italy and England. The texts of the various pieces of music are read by the singers, adding an extra dimension to the works. Whether the lyrics are poetic, witty or humorous, these polyphonic miniatures revive a timeless character by revealing a myriad of facets that make the men and women of today’cho. Concert with projections Length: 1h45 with interval  

Saturday 13 September, 9.00pm – Espace Henry de Monfreid Viva l’Amor! Oper’Azul lyrical duo For its first appearance at the Notes d’Ecume Festival, the Opér’Azul duo joins forces with the Quintette à cordes de l’Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse for a brilliant lyrical concert. Based around the universal theme of love, the programme ranges from the operas of Mozart (Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro) and Rossini (The Barber of Séville) to the Neapolitan music of Tosti, via the mélodies of Fauré, Berlioz and Schubert. Love, humour and poetry will be at the heart of this programme designed for all audiences, novices and opera fans alike! Concert with projections Length: 1h45 with interval  

Saturday 19 September, 9:00 pm – Espace Henry de Monfreid Novecento Novecento is the story of a self-taught jazz pianist and improvisation genius in the 1900s. Born on a boat, he was abandoned on a piano in a cardboard box. Raised by the crew, having never known any world other than the sea, he describes the world through the accounts of the passengers. He plays all the tunes he hears on his piano, inventing notes that don’t exist. His reputation grows as he travels between Europe and America. He fascinated and intrigued. He became a symbol for all those who cared about him. He is challenged to a duel, invited to descend. He is tempted to go and see the land. The earth is perhaps too big a keyboard for him. As a result of the war and her poor condition, the liner, the Virginian, is threatened with destruction. Tim Tooney, his trumpet-playing friend, tries to persuade Novecento to leave the ship. Length: 1 hour 25 minutes with no intermission  

Saturday 20 September, 9:00 pm – Eglise de Leucate Village  Schubert, Dvorak | Quatuor Cordes Sensibles Against the backdrop of the church in Leucate Village, performed by the Quatuor Cordes Sensibles made up of musicians from the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse : two summits in the history of chamber music, and in particular of the quartet formation – for some, an aesthetic apogee. The Death and the Maiden is one of the defining works of German Romanticism, touching on a number of existential themes: Schubert composed this fourteenth quartet at the age of 27, gnawed away by the illness that would soon take his life. The result is a particularly poignant Andante con moto. Composed nearly seventy years later on the other side of the Atlantic, Anton Dvoř’s Quartet No. 12 is a vibrant, colourful fresco of sound. With the same energy as the brilliant New World Symphony, created immediately before this work. And with the same dual feeling, Dvorák’s heart constantly swaying between his new homeland and his native Czechéquie.

Sunday 28 September, 21:00 – Espace Henry de Monfreid Michel Berger, ton piano danse toujours Ton piano danse toujours is not just a cover concert, but an immersive one-man show. Many people feel orphaned by the music of Michel Berger and his world, and through this show they rediscover the motion and timeless magic of his songs,” says Jean-Marc Sauvagnargues. A unique moment, where motion and nostalgia meet the timeless power of Michel’s songs. Duration: 2 hours with no interval

.

 Thursday 1 January, 6.00pm – Espace Henry de Monfreid Michel Berger, ton piano danse toujours The Notes d’Ecume Festival comes to a close in style with the fourth edition of the New Year’s Concert! The Orchestre Symphonique Perpignan Catalogne, founded and directed by the conductor Da-niel Tosi, is accompanied by the great violinist Diego Tosi (solo violin with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris) and, for the first time in the history of the orchestra, the violinist Diego Tosi (solo violin with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris); Paris) and, for the first time, the very young ténor Francis Biyong, a prodigy noticed by Daniel Tosi and currently a member of the Choir of the Opéra national du Capitole, Toulouse. Together, they offer a programme of rare density, from virtuoso pieces to poignant operatic arias, and of course with a Viennese vocation;A compendium of motion, conviviality and excellence to share in the New Year in a packed house. Duration: 2:00 with intermission (with admission)

Performance: 2:00 (with intermission)