Mathilde Potier, violin
Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, violin
Jean-Baptiste Souchon-Graziani, viola
Madeleine Douçot, cello
With the dancers of the company Les Schini’s
Choreography: Mélodie Cecchini and Gaëtan Boschini
From the fiery rhythms of Béla Bartók to the sound textures of Sofia Gubaidulina, via the dreamlike world of Henri Dutilleux, Métamorphoses whirl like a quartet that has broken free! A semi-finalist of the Vibre! Competition 2025 and currently in residence in Bordeaux, the young ensemble captivates with its “dramatic richness” (Pierre Gervasoni) and its “passionate and committed” playing (Remy Franck).
At the Agora du Haut-Carré in Talence, they invite the Bordeaux-based contemporary dance company Les Schini’s, whose work blends physicality, theatricality, and musicality. Their choreographic language explores contrasting states, from fluid gestures to more raw and offbeat forms.
Béla Bartók opens the program with his Third String Quartet, the shortest of the six, featuring tightly woven polyphony, a completely new form, and remarkable rhythmic inventiveness. The enigmatic sonorities of Henri Dutilleux’s only string quartet, balanced between harmony and timbre, evoke a nocturnal, incantatory, almost cosmological world. Finally, Sofia Gubaidulina concludes the program with her Third Quartet, written in 1987, where senz’arco takes center stage. Showers of pizzicati—first delicate, then increasingly feverish—create a dizzying effect, blending music and dance in a single breath.
Program :
Dialogue between string quartet & contemporary dance
Béla Bartók — String Quartet No. 3
Sofia Gubaidulina — String Quartet No. 3
Henri Dutilleux — Ainsi la nuit
