Tanguy de Williencourt in commemorative recital ‘TWINS’ at Salle Cortot

Tanguy de Williencourt will perform alongside pianist Guilhem Fabre in a duo piano recital at Salle Cortot on February 11th 2022 at 8:30pm.

Alongside works by Rachmaninoff and Mozart, the duo will perform Jean-Pierre Armanet’s Twins in commemoration of the attack in New York against the twin towers of Manhattan on September 11th 2001.

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for two pianos K448

Jean-Pierre Armanet
Twins

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances

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Words from the Composer:

"Twins" is an opus for two pianos in seven scenes, and is a sound echo of the attack in New York against the twin towers of Manhattan.

This opus evokes the dizzying fury of a collective drama where every individual destiny has suddenly been taken hostage by our contemporary history. Very often in my musical writing, I am influenced by first myths. Here, "Twins" can be listened to as a sonic Armageddon, an event that occurred in our time but which also takes place in the redundant times of Humanity.

I wanted to explore the sound spheres of the small intimate minutes that preceded the attack, those of the attack itself and those of the daze that followed. I wanted it not only as a story but also, in a somewhat phenomenological way, as a succession of emotional states that only music could ultimately account for.

Symbolically, I have therefore associated two pianos so that they speak to each other, like the two martyred twin towers “watching” each other in the process of collapsing. Sometimes the two instruments support each other, sometimes they move away from each other, irreversibly to evoke noises like incredible silences, doubtless even unprecedented.

“Twins” can then also be listened to as a kind of requiem without words, a minimalist requiem carrying within it a message against intolerance, this intolerance without memory which, beyond widely listed Western guilt, has unjustified sacrificial consequences.