TRANSCRIPTIONS

ACCENTUS / Laurence Equilbey

 

Les Monts du Reuil

Andy Sommer - director

  

First Part

1   Mahler: Die zwei blauen Augen

from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

2   Ravel: La flûte enchantée

from “Schéhérazade”

3   Mahler: Kein deutscher Himmel

Adagietto from Symphony No. 5

4   Ravel:  L’indifférent

from “Schéhérazade”

5   Wagner:  Im Treibhaus 

from “Wesendonk Lieder”

6   Schubert: Grablied

from “Death and the Maiden” Quartet

7   Schubert: Nacht und Träume

Nacht und Träume opus 43 no.2 D827

8   Barber: Agnus Dei

Adagio for Strings opus 11

 

Second Part

1   Vivaldi: Winter

from the “Four Seasons”

2   Debussy: Les Angélus

3   Ravel: The Fairy Garden

from “Mother Goose”

4   Ravel:  Pavane

from “Mother Goose”

5   Prokofiev: The Field of the Dead

from “Alexander Nevsky”

6   Mahler: Scheiden und Meiden

from ”Lieder aus der Jugendzeit”

7   Debussy: Des pas sur la neige

from “Préludes, Book I”

8   Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

from “Rückert-Lieder”

9   Chopin: Lacrimosa

Étude for piano opus 10 no.6

 

Bonus :

Ravel: Soupir

from “Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé”

 

Critically-acclaimed ever since its first recording, the choral group Accentus has received numerous prizes from the music press for its CDs. Its recording of “Transcriptions”, which has sold more than 100,000 copies, was a Grammy Award nominee in 2004, and its Schoenberg recording with the Ensemble Intercontemporain (2005) received a Midem Classical Award in 2006.

 

Founded by Laurence Equilbey for the purpose of performing the major works of the a cappella repertoire, and with a special interest in contemporary music, accentus is today an ensemble of 32 professional singers which appears at the leading French and international festivals. The choir collaborates regularly with prestigious conductors and orchestras (Pierre Boulez, Jonathan Nott, Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen/Haute Normandie, Concerto Köln, Akademie für Alte Musik).

 

This film was shot after the huge success of the two albums of Transcriptions released since 2003. Accentus and Laurence Equilbey inspired the director Andy Sommer who wrote: “The a cappella music of Accentus is magical, its sound at once luminous and full of mystery. This film-concert, a sort of ‘a cappella musical’ focusing on the repertoire of transcriptions, explores from one work to another the different aspects of the art of Accentus and gives a visual dimension to this unique ensemble.” An opportunity to see and listen again the greatest hits of Accentus’ transcriptions: Barber’s Adagio, Mahler’s Adagietto, Vivaldi’s Winter, Schubert’s Death and the Maiden…

 

Plus 60-page book

 

Naïve DVD V5116