Enfants terribles - Philip Glass

An electrifying dive into American post-modernism is offered by Katia and Marielle Labèque, who testify once again to their unwavering commitment to the music of our time.

In 1996, inspired by the work of Jean Cocteau, Philip Glass composed his Enfants terribles in the form of dance-opera. The transcription for two pianos in the form of Suite, while drawing an ellipse in the place of song, proposes a sumptuously sonorous voyage through the troubling mysteries of adolescence. Alternatively gasping, dark and obsessive, the work has a magnetism to which responds another score – dedicated to the Labèque sisters – from another “enfant terrible”, Bryce Dessner. At the crossroads of musical cultures, from rock to minimalism, his El Chan offers seven sonic poems that vie in inventiveness, between impacts, echoes and abrupt silences.

Piano Katia Labèque & Marielle Labèque

Bryce Dessner
EL CHAN
 
Philip Glass
Four movements for two pianos
Les Enfants Terribles - arrangement Michael Riesman