Roger Muraro knows how to reconcile immersion and elevation. It is always a demanding experience, but strong, rare and therefore precious in a lifetime, to follow him.
After the Twenty looks at the Child Jesus by Messiaen, then the monumental complete Pilgrimage years by Franz Liszt, last summer in the Saint-Robert abbey, the pianist took the public at the La Chaise-Dieu festival to another height of expressiveness; with Liszt again, but this time at the Puy-en-Velay theater, to perform the complete cycle of Poetic and religious harmonies. They reveal the mystical dimension of the composer who transposed the universal verses of Lamartine into music in this glorious and intimate cycle, tormented and peaceful.
Roger Muraro, as if connected to the very thought of Liszt, was a more than sure guide through these pieces imprinted with lyricism and spirituality. He was not alone on stage. Lambert Wilson lent his voice to the poems of Lamartine, but also to texts by Verlaine, Hugo or Corneille – some of which send us back in a rhyme to our distant, but dear years of study. Although they were written by the greatest poets, these texts – which evoke death like childhood, simple nature like the mystery of faith – are here nothing less than inspirations. As such, they remain set back from a music that escapes meaning to retain only an expressive power of rare intensity.
A graceful return to normal for the La Chaise-Dieu Music Festival
Comedian Lambert Wilson does not make the mistake of overacting. He is illustrated by a form of austerity that we do not necessarily know him, but which suits him perfectly. With him, we enter into the intimacy of the master.
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As for the pianist Roger Muraro, he is in his usual role, always careful not to push anyone into the abyss. Totally freed from the score and from an application in the details which would lose the public, he knows how to install the listening in this music as beautiful as it is complex. Roger Muraro reveals a whole world through a succession of impulses and restraints. We succumb to his gesture, masterful or delicate, which captures the essential and allows us to gently escape from any expressive climax.
A useful virtuoso, the pianist demonstrates both a crazy lyricism and a great interiority that allows him to sublimate all the contrasts of the soul, in the eyes and ears of all.
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Because it’s all music. It is not necessary to be a believer to confront these poetic and religious Harmonies. The most Cartesian will also find in Liszt’s music, the whole history of the world.
The festival continues until August 28. The La Chaise-Dieu festival, which began on August 18, offers many other concerts in the famous Saint-Robert abbey, but also across the Haute-Loire, in Brioude, Saint-Paulien, Lavaudieu…
In Le Puy-en-Velay, another meeting is offered, with free access, Saturday August 27, at 5 p.m., at the kiosk in the Henri-Vinay garden: a concert by the POKAM ensemble, made up of teachers from the Ateliers des arts , in partnership with the Urban Community of Puy-en-Velay.
All programming and online reservations at www.chaise-dieu.com.
Text: Pierre-Olivier Febvert
Photos: Vincent Jolfre