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After the compromised 2020 spring and summer, David Grimal and Les Dissonances's musicians had the chance to get back on stage for several concerts, despite a cultural world still impacted by sanitary context. Let's look back on those happy moments!

    

Tribute to Beethoven

At the beginning of October, David Grimal and Les Dissonances's musicians were happy to meet again around this emblematic composer. They reconnected with their loyal publics of Le Volcan, Scène nationale du Havre, Opéra de Dijon and Philharmonie de Paris.

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Concert : Les Dissonances à la Philharmonie de Paris
"Un concert particulièrement enthousiasmant permettant à David Grimal et Les Dissonances de renouveler l’image d’un Beethoven trop ancré dans la tradition." - Michel Jakubowicz

"A particularly exciting concert allowing David Grimal and Les Dissonances to refresh the image of a Beethoven deeply rooted in tradition."

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David Grimal conduit Les Dissonances au sommet à la Philharmonie - David Grimal lead Les Dissonances to the top at Philharmonie de Paris
"Les Dissonances confirment la place de choix qu’elles occupent dans le monde orchestral" - Augustin Javel

"Les Dissonances bear out their special place in the orchestral world"

CRESCENDO MAGAZINE
Cure de jouvence pour Beethoven - Rejuvenation for Beethoven
"Quel meilleur antidote à l’atmosphère délétère de ces temps troublés que ce message rayonnant de joie ? Le bonheur des musiciens, visible, est contagieux : le public saluera longuement les interprètes, dont on souhaite qu’ils gravent de nouveau ces œuvres, tant leur prestation de ce soir était exceptionnelle." - Yvan Beuvard

"What better antidote to the deleterious atmosphere of those trouble times than this message beaming with joy? The musicians' happiness, visible, is contagious: their performance tonight was so exceptionnal that public applause a long time the artists who will hopefully etch again those works." 

  

Le Salon des Dissonances

Pierrot lunaire - Théâtre Firmin Gémier / La Piscine

Léa Hennino et Yan Levionnois, both Dissonances' musicians, have gathered a team of young talents to offer the public the chance to discover some vocal pieces of Ravel, Brahms and Schönberg; the occasion to listen to Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire (1912) at Théâtre La Piscine, piece that marks the emergence of "Sprechgesang", "spoken singing" !

Musicians : Fiona McGown, soprano / Shuichi Okada, violin / Léa Hennino, viola / Yan Levionnois, cello / Nina Pollet, flute / Renaud Guy-Rousseau, clarinet / Guillaume Bellom, piano

  

AROUND Görge THE DREAMER - Opéra de Dijon

This Dissonances format « en salon » allow the public to meet the musicians in chamber music programs imagined in parallel of lyric pieces of the Opera de Dijon's season. This time, the program answered to Zemlinsky's Görge The Dreamer and gave the word to the woodwinds with Schönberg's Wind Quintet op. 26, Zemlinsky's Jagstück (2 horns and piano) and Enescu's Wind Dicet.

Musicians : Mathilde Calderini, Bastien Pelat - flutes / Alexandre Gattet - oboe / Guillaume Pierlot - english horn / Gaëlle Burgelin, Renaud Guy-Rousseau - clarinets / Lionel Bord, Amiel Prouvost - fagotts / Hugues Viallon, Pierre Burnet - horns / Maris Duquesnois - piano

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CRESCENDO MAGAZINE
Autour de Görge le rêveur, le Salon des Dissonances - Around Görge The Dreamer, the Salon des Dissonances
"Dès le premier mouvement, l’écoute mutuelle, la dynamique, l’articulation forcent l’admiration. La complexité rythmique semble un jeu d’enfant pour les musiciens." - Yvan Beuvard

"From the beginning of the first movement, the mutual listening, the dynamic, the articulation force the admiration. The rhythmic complexity seems to be a walk in the park for the musicians."