Les Métanuits

Description

Emile Parisien and Roberto Negro come together in homage to Ligeti's 1st String Quartet. When he was still a young composer, György Ligeti (1923-2006) wrote his first string quartet, subtitled "Nocturnal Metamorphoses," during the 1950s, under the clearly perceptible influence of Béla Bartók. Both holding great admiration for Ligeti, pianist Roberto Negro and saxophonist Émile Parisien - who actively contribute to the vitality of improvised music in France - took on a funny challenge: to adapt this string quartet for piano and sax! The result is "Les Métanuits," whose organic spontaneity is matched only by its oblique intrepidity. True to Ligeti's iconoclastic spirit, the two troublemakers transfigure the original score without altering its rich expressive range - quite the opposite.