Shows
Bach
The Art of Fugue, Jean-Sébastien Bach's incomplete masterpiece, in a version for eleven instruments and five musicians who play with the fugues in a gold and red scenery, reflection of the great composition workshop.
"Yves Charpentier draws a sumptuous ethereal tone from his flutes, the oboe combines French suppleness and German softness, Jean-Christophe Murer, clarinettist, plays wonderfully; the bassoon is astounding with virtuosity and the horn player strikes up with a burning temperament. Great Art…"
La Liberté / Fribourg (Suisse)
music : Jean-Sébastien Bach
new concert version by Olivier Dejours
Lights, scenography : Agnès Laurent et Georges Peltier
Duration : 90 mn
creation 1996 – en coproduction avec le théâtre de Villefranche-sur-Saône
recorded by Espace 2, Radio Suisse Romande (1998)
autour du spectacle : concert commenté « Fuguons ! Bach ou la fugue dans tous ses états »
Bleu d’Outremer
In echo to the dazzling poems of rené Char and vibrant paintings of Vieira da Silva, Bruno Belthoise at the piano and Le Concert Impromptu celebrate the fine franco-portuguese friendship in verses and in music under the direction of Yves Charpentier.
music : Sergoi Azevedo, Fernando Lopes-Graça, Olivier Messiaen, Filipe Pires, Bernard de Vienne
Directors : Yves charpentier et Bruno Belthoise
texts : René Char, Vieira da Silva
duration : 1 hour 15 minutes
creation october 2004
Erotica
With an invited soprano, Erotica sings of love : Irish, medieval, German, sensual, impromptu, new and eternal, multiple and universal. The voice becomes instrument, the instruments speak and sing.
music : Berio, Takemishu, Weill, Corigliano, Serebrier
Lights, scenography : Fabrice Crouzet
duration : 60 mn
creation 1999, Théâtre de La Renaissance
Mozart (,) de Vienne ?
Mozart (,) de Vienne is a both a meeting and a confrontation between a living composer Bernard de Vienne and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
For Mozart, the desire to embrace the Lumières and ideals of the 18th century. For de Vienne the whish to seize the changes of the 21st century. Both invite the wind instruments for their incantatory powers and combine them with the delights of a played, spoken and sung conversation.
Musical creatione : Bernard de Vienne
Direction : Yves Charpentier et Bruno Belthoise
Scenography : Katrin Bremermann assistée de Solène Besnard
Lights : Philippe Andrieux
Adaptation and actor directing : Béatrice Belthoise
Costumes : Emmanuelle Ballon
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Le concert impromptu and Bruno Belthoise, piano
Choros et Bachianas
Collected live in the neighborhoods of Rio by the Brazilian Bach Villa-Lobos, his Choros* are an echo to the luxuriant songs of his skilful Bachianas**.
Between dance and magic, virtuoso musics of fight and celebration given in arena very close to the public.
*Choros : traditional songs **Bachianas : classical formes written in tribute to Bach
"…Rough and sensual music of which the musicians render all the various colours by their dynamic interpretation…"
- Libération
Direction Yves Charpentier et Bruni Belthoise
music : Heitor Villa-Lobos
Scenography, Lights : Philippe Andrieux
duration : 70 mn
création 1998
coproduction with Theatre of Villefranche-sur-Saône
Woods
Wood is a musical and choregraphic show on the theme of the forest, undergrowth and clearings. The pieces played and Jean Michel Bossini's musical creation invent an imaginary folklore choregraphed by Marie-Françoise Garcia, involving all the musicians.
choregraphy and production: Marie-Françoise Garcia
musical creation : Jean-Michel Bossini
artistic direction : Marie-Françoise Garcia and Yves Charpentier
scenography and costumes : Nathalie Roussel
lights/production department : Philippe Andrieux and Serge Alonzo
Prophetic Attitude
Frank Zappa « Rock is great, Zappa is his prophet »
21 concentrated tubes of Zappa, from "King Kong" to "Uncle Meat" played in a choregraphic and luminous hopscotch, counterpoint to the lyrical and psychedelic verses of the prophet.
"…Each member of the group alone is an outstanding soloist. Together they make an absolutely wild cocktail and the Zappa fans go nuts, thank you Impromptu…"
Télérama
Music : Frank Zappa, quintet version : Jean-Michel Bossini
production : Maud Tizon
lights : Philippe Andrieux
duration :70 mn
creation :1997
in coproduction with the Theatre de la Renaissance
CD Prophetic Attitude, l’empreinte digitale
(concert version available)
LA MARELLE MUSICALE
A show for young audiences
To answer the demand for shows made for chidren of 8-11 years old
Used to addressing children, Le Concert Impromptu has made up a musical form just for them and on the occasion forms up a "pocket-size ensemble", the Ulip trio, avatar of Oulipo : two members of Le Concert Impromptu converse with Tanjia Muller who displays her talents on the flute, the cello and accordion !
Inspired by the « Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle » created by Raymond Queneau and George Perec, mixing the works of Bach, Mozart, Cage, Vivaldi and Carter, the musicians lead their audience into a world of deceptive appearences, where order and disorder sometimes make one.
The show questions the rule of the game and the game on the rule. This famous Oulipian constraint, source of creativity, is declined musically in words and music within the hopscotch and the inventive perspectives that it creates.
A show that questions and stimulates curiosity, La Marelle Musicale wants before all to install a real complicity with the young audience.
Revival 2008/2009
European Patrimony days
Château des Ducs de Savoie (73)
• 20 et 21 september 2008
L’Aire Libre – St Jacques de la Lande (35)
• 23 et 24 febuary 2009
Flâneries de Reims (51)
• July 2009