Filmaginaires

Since we started the quartet, we have never stopped exploring new repertoires: baroque music, contemporary creations, French and Spanish music, music from South America, whether original music for guitar or arrangements of works for piano or large orchestra. This fifth album, however, represents for us a much more singular approach in the sense that music created for the cinema, although written by composers and often played on the same instruments, differs in its structure, its language and in the preparation of one's interpretation compared to our ‘usual’ classical music. That's why, although we've been playing snippets of film tunes in our rehearsals for several years in order to ‘take our minds off things’, it took us some time to take the plunge and turn it into a real project in the same way as our previous musical experiences.

So the starting point for this album was relaxation, laughter, even ‘hysterical laughter’.
But that didn't stop us from taking it just as seriously as our previous work.

We chose above all to arrange music that speaks to us, some of it very emblematic, for a real journey through time spanning nearly 70 years, from Charlie Chaplin's Smile in 1936 to the music for Catch me if you can created by John Williams in 2002, with a passage through the musical comedy and poetry of Italian cinema.

We have included two references by Roland Dyens, whom we knew well: Filmaginaires, an original for guitar quartet, and Alfonsina y el mar, a veritable hymn in Argentina, arranged with a talent and creativity to which only he had the secret.

Ils en parlent... -> Radio Coteaux - Froggy's delight

    1.    John Williams  Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark - Raiders March
    2.    John Williams  Catch me if you can - Escapades, 1. Closing In
    3.    Nicola Piovani  La Vita è Bella - Buongiorno Principessa
    4.    Nino Rota  Otto e mezzo - La Passerella d'Addio
    5.    Charlie Chaplin  Modern Times - Smile

        Danny Elfman  Batman
    6.    Main Titles
    7.    Joker's Poem
    8.    Waltz of the Death
    9.    Final 

    10.    Roland Dyens - Filmaginaires
    11.    John Williams  Jurassic Park - Theme 
    12.    John Williams  Star Wars - The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)
    13.    Ariel Ramirez - Alfonsina y el Mar (arr. Roland Dyens)

        Leonard Bernstein  West Side Story
    14.    Mambo
    15.    Cha-Cha
    16.    America

Quatuor Eclisses
Gabriel Bianco - Arkaïtz Chambonnet - Pierre Lelièvre - Benjamin Valette