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In the cold of Winter, or Wanyietu in the Lakota language, the string quartet composed by Mellits in 2015 sets the scene, with sounds mingling with verses from the pen of Victor Hugo... alongside extracts from Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (1787) and Mozart's Requiem, transcribed for quartet in 1802. A dialogue between the human and the divine, life and death, heaven and earth... A dialogue between the Adastra Quartet and actress Andréa Ferréol.

The artists

  • Andréa Ferréol : Actress
  • Quatuor Adastra : String quartet

The texts

  • Extraits des Sept Dernières Paroles du Christ
  • Extraits du Requiem
  • Poèmes de Victor Hugo
  • La tombe dit à la rose
  • Après l’hiver
  • Crépuscule
  • À des âmes envolées

Program

duration: 1h10 minutes

  • Marc Mellits

    Excerpts from the quartet n°5 Waniyetu

  • Joseph Haydn

    Excerpts from the Sayings of Jesus on the cross op. 51

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Excerpts from the Requiem KV 626
    Transcription by Peter LICHTENTHAL (1802)
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