Murail

Known for his scientific explorations of timbre and his innovative syntheses of acoustic and electronic techniques, Tristan Murail is regarded as a composer of the "spectral school." He accepts untempered sound as the basis for his expansive musical language, far removed from tonality, serialism, and aleatoric procedures. Gondwana was developed from electronic music concepts, and its expanding and contracting bands of complex sounds are analogous to those generated through a synthesizer. Shimmering clusters, washes of color, and massed, low sonorities evoke the slow shifting of continents. The Orchestre National de France, directed by Yves Prin, delivers this work with primordial grandeur and astonishing depth. Because of its smaller forces, Désintégrations is more focused and intense than Gondwana, though no less cosmic in its implications. The Ensemble de l'Itinéraire blends effectively with the electronic tape, so it is difficult to distinguish acoustic from synthetic sounds. Time and Again is a departure from the familiar practice of slowly unfolding processes, for its chopped-up material is jumbled, as if sequential events were reordered in a time machine.

When the first concert of the series founded by the composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann (later designated as musica viva) took place at Munich's Prince Regent's Theatre on 7 October 1945, it marked the birth of an important new cultural event in post-war Germany. Up to the present day, this oldest concert series for New Music still brings together the world's most important artists - conductors and interpreters alike - in the field of new and the newest music, also continuing to set new standards for the interpretation of new classical music with the outstanding Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Olivier Messiaen composed his eight-movement Quartet for the End of Time in 1940 while imprisoned in Germany. He drew his inspiration from the Apocalypse written by Saint John the Evangelist, one of the few works he was allowed to keep in the camp. Het Collectif explores this work, never forgetting that it was at the heart of this harsh winter of war, in a context of misfortune, confinement and deprivation, that Messiaen had an angel speak, promising paradise and the end of time… Stalag VIIIa , composed by Tristan Murail, whose title refers to Olivier Messiaen's place of detention in Görlitz in 1940, completes this programme.

Cécile Barrois, jeune professeur des écoles, effectue sa rentrée à l'école Louis Guilloux.
À 22 ans, Cécile va réaliser son rêve de petite fille : devenir maîtresse d'école ! La voilà donc qui affronte, le cœur tremblant, sa première rentrée des classes à l'école primaire Louis-Guilloux. Face à elle dix-huit CP : Baptiste jamais assis sur sa chaise, Audrey qui aime déjà sa maîtresse, Marianne l'endormie, Steven au QI "limite", Louis se zentil, Tom le querelleur, Robin le gros bébé, Toussaint et Démor Baoulé, fraîchement arrivés de Côte-d'Ivoire…

Walden, 12 ans, est emmené par son père dans les forêts du Maine. Une fois sur place, ce dernier l'abandonne dans une cabane avec comme seuls moyens de subsistance quelques boîtes de conserve, des livres et une carabine. A partir de ce jour, le garçon doit se débrouiller pour survivre. …

En achetant la plus belle maison du quartier, les Vendôme pensaient avoir fait une bonne affaire et s'étaient réjouis d'y emménager avec leurs trois enfants. Une nuit, le pire est arrivé. Leur fille Lucrèce s'est jetée du toit, sous les yeux de Malo son petit frère. Traumatisé, le garçon a passé deux mois en hôpital psychiatrique. Depuis son retour, Malo a l'impression que la maison lui joue des tours et s'en prend à lui. Ses affaires changent de place, les murs de sa chambre font des gargouillis, les poignées de porte disparaissent. …