Aurelien Ballanger

Constellations, the 5th opus in the Solo series of the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, invites you to discover the viola repertoire from the 19th century to the present day. Conveyed with sensitivity and panache by violist Guillaume Leroy, joined by Victor Metral and Aurélien Pascal, this album brings together six previously unreleased works by some of today’s leading composers, set against pieces from the Romantic and modern repertoire. From Schumann to Connesson, not forgetting Lutoslawski, Pépin, Vieuxtemps and Tanguy, let yourself be guided through this galaxy of poetic and powerful works.

“A veritable musical metaphor for the suicide of Europe that was the Great War, both apotheosis and apocalypse. We also hear evocations of Schubert, Liszt, Mahler and Kreisler, all imbued with a kind of nostalgia that belongs only to this mythical city.” - Aurélien Pontier. This album is dedicated to the last years of Imperial Vienna, which gave rise to an artistic effervescence unique in European history. The programme opens with a piano transcription of Strauss's Die Fledermaus and ends with Ravel's La Valse.

Notre cosmos ne serait-il qu’un îlot dérisoire perdu dans un vaste multivers ? Ces univers multiples sont-ils imbriqués les uns dans les autres, tels des poupées russes ? Sont-ils régis par les mêmes lois ou sont-ils des univers-bulles indépendants ?
Conséquence de théories pour certaines très bien établies, le concept d'univers multiples nous oblige à redessiner les contours du réel et à repenser nos mythes fondateurs, nos croyances profondes. …

Présentation des avancées de physique subatomique, de cosmologie et des théories qui prédisent l'existence de mondes parallèles et d'univers multiples. …