Les Chants de l’amour
Gérard Grisey
Les Chants de l'Amour (1982-1984) [Songs of Love]
for twelve mixed voices and tape
"Music has at least one thing in common with Love, and that is that in it human beings discover and learn about Time. The first sketch of Les Chants de l'Amour, in fact the formal layout, dates back to the summer of 1981. At the time, I conceived the idea of large vocal polyphonies enveloped and sustained by a powerful fundamental. The “Chant” program*, designed by Xavier Rodet and Yves Potard at Ircam, and of which I had heard a few examples, immediately seemed to me to be the ideal instrument for creating this continuous voice and these respiratory pulsations, the veritable amniotic fluid of human voices.
Gérard Grisey
First performance of this production on April 22, 2021 at Opéra de Lille.
Captation David Daurier
Le Balcon
Musical director Maxime Pascal
Artistic director and sound editor Florent Derex
Computer music manager Augustin Muller
Scenography David Daurier
Stele design Romain Ronflette
Director of photography Arthur Cemin
Sound recording and mixing Michel Pierre
Sopranos Marie Picaut, Myrianne-Fleur Le Ralle, Elise Chauvin
Contraltos Pauline Sikirdji, Elise Dabrowski, Camille Merckx
Tenors Safir Behloul, Manuel Nuñez Camelino, Xavier de Lignerolles
Basses Mathieu Dubroca, Thill Mantero, Florent Baffi
Executive production of the recording
Gingerlemon | Laetitia Bartoli
With the support of the Opéra de Lille and its teams
Thanks to Caroline Sonrier, IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, Michalis Boliakis, Ágnes Czingulszki, Sivan Eldar, François-Xavier Féron, Michaël Levinas, Jasmine Libiszewski, Suzanne Saint-Cast, Xin-Yun Wu