Lettres intimes by Eötvös, Saariaho, Janáček, Noiztik (2023/2023), Cité de la musique, Paris, France

No words will be spoken during this concert. The verb is however omnipresent there. According to Peter Eötvös, "the strings allow eminently subtle 'linguistic' articulations", making this paradox possible: epistolary music. “I will be there alone with you. No one else with us”, confides Leoš Janáček to Kamila Stöslova, his muse and impossible love, about his Second Quartet called “Intimate Letters” . Deviating from any preconceived model, this quartet aims to be a mirror of the composer's amorous imagination, a reflection of feelings: of their fluctuating nature as much as of their urgency and immediacy. A feeling of ephemeral found in the Seven Butterflies , composed by Kaija Saariaho after his opera L'Amour de loin. Taking an interest in the correspondence between Mozart, father and son, Eötvös entrusts the viola with the role of Wolfgang and the cello with that of Leopold, the latter providing advice to the former, while most of their lives remain unresolved. -said.