Ensemble Variances

Reviews

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

May 3, 2019

Outre-mémoire (...) ventures into a musical exploration of the slave trade... The concert begins before the musicians of Ensemble Variances have even assumed their position. They move throughout the space, and sounds emanate from everywhere... time and again, rhythm remains the driving force.

Operawire

May 2019

The production received overwhelming praise and response from critics and audiences.

Der Opernfreund

April 26, 2019

Thierry Pécou established Ensemble Variances in 2009 and since that time has attracted attention from across the globe with his distinct, beyond definition productions. During his tenure at Paris Oper, Gérard Mortier called these forms "frontière"... At this borderline or rather cross-border area, Thierry Pécou now introduces the "choreographic oratorio".

Anaclase

April 23, 2019

Inside the Théâtre des Arts, an extraordinary assemblage of songs, music, dances and staging of wild animals - wolf, vulture, owls and eagles, directed the specialist Luc Petton and his company Le Guetteur took place.

Mannheimer Morgen

April 10, 2019

Sound of the slave trade - The way the composer refers to Caribbean music and jazz - not by simply quoting it but always remaining true to Thierry Pécou - makes Outre-mémoire a fascinating piece!

Rhein Neckar Zeitung

April 8, 2019

Outre-mémoire is a deeply moving work and performed by brilliant musicians!

Opéra Magazine

April 2019

The ceremonial and ritualized aspect of the composer's music - the genetic code of his language - gives pride of place to percussions...

Le Monde

March 20, 2019

Thierry Pécou is a musician who never repeats himself and who considers every new work as an achievement... he is a unique artist without any comparison in the contemporary landscape.

The Georgia Straight

October 31, 2018

Walking in Beauty takes Modulus Festival to new realms.

The Guardian

Jully 13, 2018

The cello, played by the indefatigable Anssi Karttunen, acts as a mediator between the ensemble and the deep-sea sounds … and the results are strikingly beautiful, sometimes discomfiting, and in the end profoundly elegiac.

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

June 11, 2018

The ensemble Variances under the baton of Thierry Pécou formed the most experimental point in the program. (...) The music became an all-encompassing spatial experience. Frenetic applause from the audience.

Kultura Extra

June 10, 2018

One of the evening's highlights is the performance of La Voie de la Beauté (engl.: Walking in Beauty) by the chamber ensemble Variances under the baton of the French composer, Thierry Pécou. (...) Variations of the tonal soundscapes, sequences and colours are intriguingly tested out and impressively echo as rhythmic mosaics within the resonating church.

The Guardian

April 24, 2018

Outre-mémoire is thus a work that is intensely personal and yet universal for invoking fundamental and still timely questions about wealth and poverty, exploitation and oppression.

Reviews according to the event

  • Cri selon cri / Cry by cry

  • Tremendum / Le Mexique est en fête

  • L'Amour coupable

  • Garden of the Sage

  • L'Oiseau innumérable

  • Entre Ombres & Lumières

  • Thierry Pécou

  • Nahasdzáán

  • CD Orquoy

  • Les Liaisons magnétiques

  • CD Tremendum

  • CD Symphonie du Jaguar

  • Outre-mémoire

  • Sangâta

  • Mysterium Ecologia / Play the Melody of the Earth

  • La Voie de la Beauté / Walking in Beauty

  • Waves

  • Poème du feu

  • Sefarad's

  • Watunna

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    • Biography
    • Thierry Pécou
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    • Management
    • Artistic collaborations
    • Discography
    • Artistic Residency
    • Supports
  • 10 years
  • Projects
    • Batouala
    • Nahasdzáán
    • Play the Melody of the Earth
    • Bachc®ab
    • Takwali
    • Outre-mémoire
    • ... Et que le soir est beau
    • Listening then and now
    • Gamelan Fever
    • Sangâta
    • Walking in Beauty
    • Instants ludiques
    • Sensible Music
    • All the projects
  • Ohuaya
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  • Media
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    • Videos
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