Polyptych

Presentation

Inspired by a polyp­tych by Duc­cio depict­ing the final epis­odes of Christ’s life, Frank Mar­tin com­posed for Yehudi Menuh­in a work in six tableaux, at once deeply nar­rat­ive and intro­spect­ive. Around this mas­ter­ful com­pos­i­tion, Mari­anne Piketty and Le Con­cert Idéal bring togeth­er Bach, Viv­aldi, Lotti, Vic­tor­ia and Chédev­ille: five cen­tur­ies of music united by the same express­ive power.

Frank Martin’s emo­tions find their echoes in the works of the past. The cen­tur­ies answer one anoth­er, music­al lan­guages inter­sect, and a shared human­ity emerges.

Struc­tured as a suc­ces­sion of images, Polyptyque leads from dark­ness towards peace. The works respond to one anoth­er, embra­cing and trans­form­ing our inner tur­moil, gradu­ally tra­cing a path where beauty opens up anoth­er per­spect­ive on the chaos of the world.