Cassandra Miller, Éliane Radigue, Sarah Davachi, Quatuor Bozzini
decemberdec 14
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© Quatuor Bozzini ©
Monday december 14
20h30
Sarah Davachi, LONG GRADUS: Part III, 20 mins (2020–2021).
French premiere
Cassandra Miller, Three Songs, 25 mins (2025).
French premiere
Éliane Radigue, Occam Delta XV, 37 minutes (2018).
French public premiere
Quatuor Bozzini
Clemens Merkel violin
Alissa Cheung violin
Isabelle Bozzini cello
Stéphanie Bozzini viola
Theresa Baumgartner visuals
In partnership with La Muse en Circuit.
Le Festival d’Automne à Paris is the producer of this concert and presents it as part of the concert series ‘Les Inspirations Visibles’, conceived under the curatorship of Stephen O’Malley and Hampus Lindwall for the Église du Saint-Esprit.
With the support of
Ease, simple pleasures, oral transmission, time in suspension like a lullaby or the stilled surface of a lake, uncluttered, as if reaching out to a veiled, uncertain origin… And of course, the fertile friendship with the Quatuor Bozzini, a favourite of Cassandra Miller, Sarah Davachi and Éliane Radigue, recently passed away. All the above binds together the three serene works in this concert.
After asking questions to the Quatuor Bozzini members about the songs from their childhood and those which they sing to their children, Cassandra Miller composed Three Songs. In it, she draws on songs from the popular repertory: "À la claire fontaine", also well-known in Quebec, or the anti-fascist hymn “Bella ciao”. The work oscillates between tenderness, nostalgia, and comfort, just as much for the listener as for the singer, as well as consolation and a meditation on memory. A work by the Canadian composer and organist Sarah Davachi, winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale Musica 2026, completes this programme. The third movement in this four-part piece, written for the Quatuor Bozzini en 2020, will be performed for the first time in France.
“The simpler the better!" was how Éliane Radigue summed up the Occam’s razor law of parsimony set forth by the medieval philosopher Guillaume d’Ockham:” Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.” Sustained sounds, stirred by the tiniest of pulsations, tune in to the place and present moment, hic et nunc, to the extent that duration depends on it, depending on the acuity of the experience and understanding between the quartet’s musicians. The result has something wonderfully intuitive about it, from its conception to the moment it is shared with those in the audience.
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