Emmanuelle Bertrand
CELLOOlivier Greif
Requiem Sonata. Trio with piano
Harmonia Mundi, 2013Emmanuelle Bertrand - cello
Pascal Amoyel - piano
Antje Weithaas - violin
I have never composed so much in my life. If I ask myself the reasons for such profusion, I realise that it is because I have nothing else in my life but music. If I stop composing, I die’, Olivier Greif wrote after finishing his Trio in 1998. This CD presents two deeply moving works by a true citizen of the world, indifferent to the aesthetic confrontations that marked the half-century of his life. 1950-2000: between these two dates lay ‘a convoluted path through shadows and light, where hope and despair are intertwined like two lianas issuing from a single stump’ (Brigitte François-Sappey).
This title was released for the first time in 2006.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Venezia, Italy
Le Perreux sur Marne, France
Festival Notes d'Automne
Paris, France
Hôtel National des Invalides
Paris, France
Le Havre, France