Ensemble Connect Performs Rameau’s Entrée de Polymnie from “Les Boréades”

Ensemble Connect performs Rameau’s Entrée de Polymnie from “Les Boréades” as part of its evening-length concert “Through Movement.” Responding to the challenge of pairing music and movement, Ensemble Connect collaborated with a theater director and a choreographer to create a seamless concert experience that reimaged musicians as movers. Prior to “Through Movement,” a group of Ensemble Connect fellows worked on this music in collaboration with early-music luminary Jordi Savall as part of a residency in Paris in 2018, bringing that experience with them to inform this performance in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Room.
Monday, January 27, 2020
Ensemble Connect Up Close: Through Movement
Ensemble Connect
Leo Sussman, Flute
Tamara Winston, Oboe
Noémi Sallai, Clarinet
Yen-Chen Wu, Bassoon
Wilden Dannenberg, Horn
Sae Hashimoto, Percussion
Gergana Haralampieva, Violin
Brian Hong, Violin
Jennifer Liu, Violin
Suliman Tekalli, Violin
Emily Liu, Viola (Guest)
Dana Kelley, Viola (Alum)
Ari Evan, Cello
Arlen Hlusko, Cello
Ha Young Jung, Bass
Directed by Lisenka Heijboer Castañon and Julia Eichten
Lighting design by Christopher Gilmore

[@TurboBinch]

It was almost disconcerting to open this video and hear what I thought was a period ensemble and to see it was a group of modern instruments. So rare to see historically informed performance by modern musicians, but this 👏 is 👏 how 👏 it's 👏 done 👏

[@Wilantonjakov]

@Harold Anderson There is less difference than you may think between modern instruments and those from the Baroque era. The difference is really made by how you play the instrument.

[@alfredhsieh]

In general Rameau's Les Boréades is often playing in quick speed, I appreciated to this perform by lower speed to show more romantic feeling. It's a great playing that i listened.

[@deocello5604]

So magnificent... It's just beautiful ❤🎶

[@colindingwall8171]

I rather like the lady 'tidying up'. It reminds me of working late in the lab and the cleaner would come in and could not care less about what I was doing. just wanted to do her job. Adds something very nice and human to the whole performance. Simply beautiful smile at 1.44m.

[@AlphaSierra5]

Can someone please explain why a barefoot lady was adjusting rugs in the middle of the performance?

[@Wilantonjakov]

That's what I'm wondering. I'm also wondering why they are all barefoot. Are they all having a Thai massage afterwards or something?

[@marcustulliuscicero2676]

Just the usual artsy-shmancy pretentiousness. They should have just played the music, absolutely no need for nonsensical theatrics.

[@Arteshir]

Avant-garde bullshit

[@thomasdent742]

The time signature '2' in French Baroque music means fast tempo, moderate 2 in a bar. This is a dirge ...

[@rogerdesmet983]

une caresse pour les oreilles

[@andruska4]

Au Contraire takes Pretentiousness down a notch, Barefoot more open senses and down to Earth. Like Stephan Hauser great Cellist plays Barefoot as well. Beautiful performance….

[@jonathandavies3370]

I didn't notice their feet, I was just enjoying their music.

[@GillesNoyau-p8c]

Really beautiful. Why are they all barefoot ?

[@mf2006-l7n]

beautiful performance...( Polymnia= one of the 9 Muses in Greek Mythology)

[@carnegiehall]

Thank you for your comment. We're glad you enjoyed this performance.

[@southernbiscuits1275]

The performance was OK. Not anything extraordinary. However, the idea of movement and bare feet is a definite non-starter for me. In a rather introspective piece as this is, one should not be aware of the performers over what one experiences from the music. There is a KZbin video of Vikingur Olafsson performing a piano transcription of this piece interspersed with video vignettes of people and their hobbies. It works perfectly. What happened during this performance was pure gimmickry.

[@Wilantonjakov]

Completely agree. It's aiming to deconstruct by drawing the attention of the viewer away from the music and towards the performers. Self-centred and typical of modernist types who seek to eventually eradicate this kind of music.

[@Aubepin]

@@Wilantonjakov I would call that a self-celebration of the orchestra. Maybe funny for some, but rather disturbing if you came to focus on the subtle harmony of the play.

[@LouisEmery]

How many repeats was that?

[@PinkasC]

1

[@trucmuchemuchetruc1801]

Pas terrible cette interprétation, un peu sec. Écoutez plutôt Minkowski

[@Vetrarbreytin]

Ecoutez celle de Pichon dans son "album" Les enfers. De loin, la meilleure et la plus efficace d'un point de vue du phrasé et pourtant Dieu sait que j'aime Minkowski.

[@amaurychavrier2014]

Subversif.

[@organboi]

Too slow.

[@dudeforcaster8630]

silly man, the slower it is the more beautiful it is :/