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Thierry Pécou's Cara Bali Concerto Premiered by the Orchestre National de Lyon

Apr. 20, 2022

Under the baton of Ben Glassberg, the Orchestre National de Lyon and pianist Alexandre Tharaud will give the world premiere of Thierry Pécou's Cara Bali Concerto on April 28 at the Auditorium, Grande Salle in Lyon. Additional performances follow on April 29 (in the same venue) and on May 6-7 at the Théâtre des Arts in Rouen. Thierry Pécou notes:

"The gamelan has provided the source of poetic and formal inspiration for my new piano concerto. The books on the Gamelan Gong Kebyar by the ethnomusicologist Michael Tenzer have given me the opportunity to immerse myself in the mechanisms of this music on which the entire composition is based. The percussive character of the piano clearly evokes the gongs and metallophones of the gamelan. In both movements, we can find the complexity of constantly varying interlocking parts, the time cycles interrupted by the low gong and the seven-note pelog mode. ‘Cara Bali’ could be translated as ‘Bali style’, but my objective is to create points of departure for the imagination and not to imitate the inimitable."


Listen Thierry Pécou's Méditation sur la fin de l'espèce (2017):


(Méditation sur la fin de l'espèce/Theirry Pécou/Ensemble Variances)

To learn more about Thierry Pécou, visit: schott-music.com.

Thierry Pécou
Cara Bali Concerto (2020)
for piano and orchestra
3(3.pic).3(3.h).3.3(3cbn)-4.pictpt.2.3.1-timp-2perc-hp-str
Str. (max.: 16 · 14 · 10 · 8 · 6; min.: 14 · 12 · 8 · 6 · 4)
27'

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