Equinoxe

Music at the Threshold of Day and Night The equinox marks that precious moment when day and night balance each other before reversing. It’s a tipping point, a threshold where lights soften or intensify.

This programme, performed by the wind quintet, traverses a complete cycle, between clarity and darkness. In his Wind Quintet, Nielsen highlights each instrument while building an ensemble of remarkable stability: it is day at its apogee.

The lighting shifts with Summer Music by Barber. The composer captures the atmosphere of a declining afternoon, the strange gentleness that precedes twilight.

In the heart of the night, Sciarrino’s sound world, built on the breath of the performers and the use of grating playing modes, evokes a mysterious and unsettling nature.

The suite Belle-Epoque in Sud America by Medaglia reintroduces light through its dancing energy and vibrant colours. As after the equinox, a new season opens, more vivid, more contrasted.