FLUCTUANTE-IMMUABLE
Press (English)
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LYON FIGARO
February 8, 1990
MUSIC
Tandem de chefs
(A Tandem of Conductors)
Gérard Corneloup

FLUCTUANTE-IMMUABLE
Press (English)
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LYON FIGARO
February 8, 1990
MUSIC
Tandem de chefs
(A Tandem of Conductors)

It is extremely rare to see orchestra conductors, finicky when it comes to it, give their baton to peers for a part of the program during a concert. That was however the case in the Maurice-Ravel Auditorium, during a contemporary music concert performed by the National Orchestra of Lyons, alternatively conducted by Gilbert Amy and Emmanuel Krivine.
A 20th century music concert would be more exact as the maestro was precisely working with the six pieces of Webern's Opus 6. […]

Gilbert Amy conducted the contemporary part, even though one of the suggested pieces, Varèse's "Arcana", dated back to 1927. However, it sounded much more recent than the Lyons premiere of a creation by Jean-Louis Florenz, world premiered hardly two years before ! […]
Although composed a good ten years before, "Fluctuante-lmmuable" by Jean-Claude Eloy appeared as a remarkably more original, personal, and sensitive piece of music. It is somehow the musical illustration of a famous debate opposing two Greek philosophers: Heraclitus, a believer of the idea of the eternal fluctuating of things and beings, and Parmenides, believer of the idea of eternal immutability. Hence an abundant score starting with long held notes, switching from an instrumental group to the next with a fascinating sound continuity before a surge of timbre-groups frees a changing and diverse chain of energy.
It was appropriate to end the night with the piece of today's music great ancestor: Edgar Varèse […]
The National Orchestra of Lyons, strongly consolidated and stimulated by Gilbert Amy's enthusiasm, gave its best, that is a lot.

GERARD CORNELOUP