{"id":27610,"date":"2020-01-25T19:30:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/?p=27610"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T13:35:17","slug":"talking-with-bruno-mantovani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/en\/news\/talking-with-bruno-mantovani\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking with Bruno Mantovani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27612\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 350px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Bruno Mantovani. Photo: Ferrante Ferranti\" width=\"350\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-1362x2048.jpg 1362w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-1000x1503.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-300x451.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-800x1203.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-55x83.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-250x376.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/brunomantovaniferranteferranti-scaled.jpg 1703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruno Mantovani. Photo: Ferrante Ferranti<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is hardly an instrument more grateful for a good new concerto, than the harp. Happily, you\u2019ve another chance to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brunomantovani.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruno Mantovani<\/a>\u2019s extraordinary<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.camac-harps.com\/en\/product\/mantovani-bruno-danse-libre-concerto-for-harp-and-chamber-orchestra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danse libre<\/a><\/em> (2017), for harp and chamber orchestra, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchestredechambredeparis.com\/concert\/dejeuner-concert-debussy-mantovani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on January 28th<\/a>. Marcel Cara will be performing it with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchestredechambredeparis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Orchestre de chambre de Paris<\/a>, at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet in Paris and with Mantovani himself conducting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The same orchestra commissioned the concerto. It was premiered by Isabelle Moretti as the soloist, and she re-performed it twice with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the following year. She and Mantovani also performed it in South America, with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Caracas, and also with young musicians in S\u00e3o Paulo. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.camac-harps.com\/en\/product\/mantovani-bruno-danse-libre-concerto-for-harp-and-chamber-orchestra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danse libre<\/a><\/em> is not Mantovani\u2019s only work for harp. In fact, it\u2019s the most recent, following the solo <em><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.camac-harps.com\/en\/product\/mantovani-bruno-tocar-for-harp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tocar<\/a><\/em> (2007), and the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.camac-harps.com\/en\/product\/mantovani-bruno-quintet-for-bertold-brecht-harp-and-string-quartet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quintette pour Berthold Brecht<\/a><\/em> of the same year. All three surprise the listener, in different ways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bruno Mantovani, director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservatoiredeparis.fr\/accueil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris Conservatoire<\/a> from 2010 to 2019, is one of France\u2019s best-known contemporary composers. We interviewed him about his works for harp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>M. Mantovani, you describe <\/strong><em>Tocar<\/em><strong> as \u201cturning the image of the harp on its head\u201d. How do you do this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The harp\u2019s problem is that it is relentlessly perceived as agreable. The shimmering, gentle sonority is almost dangerous, because it can enclose and limit the instrument in the minds of composers and audiences. It\u2019s also usually orchestrated as an accompaniment. But it has always been obvious to me that the harp has enormous potential to surprise. I should stress that I never write against the instrument, that\u2019s not the same thing. It\u2019s possible to bring out a different register, one that hasn\u2019t been heard before, but which is nevertheless natural for the instrument, belongs to the instrument.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The title of <em>Tocar<\/em> is in itself a different register, as justified and present as those we are already used to. English, French, German, all these languages speak of \u2018playing\u2019 an instrument &#8211; <em>jouer, spielen<\/em>. If one of those languages is your native one, that\u2019s how you think of it. However, the Italians \u2018sound\u2019, <em>suonare<\/em> the harp, and the Spanish <em>tocar<\/em>, they \u2018touch\u2019 it. Language is an expression not only of direct, but also of cultural meaning, and this simple example reveals different attitudes to an instrument. For me, <em>tocar<\/em> carries a sense of improvisation: the idea of touching an instrument, and seeing what happens next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wrote <em>Tocar<\/em> shortly after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brunomantovani.com\/en\/oeuvres-fiche.php?cotage=28413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Streets<\/em><\/a>, a chamber piece for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensembleintercontemporain.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ensemble Intercontemporain<\/a> and Pierre Boulez (2006). This has a prominent and also startling harp part. The instrument occupies two extremes: the murmuring tremolo at the start, and a big solo of great virtuosity at the end &#8211; quasi an electric guitar riff. I wanted to develop this virtuosity in <em>Tocar<\/em>, because it is through virtuosity that a new, and genuine, side to an instrument reveals itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>That\u2019s important. Where composers give voices to the harp we have never previously imagined, these make a huge impact when it\u2019s also clear that these voices completely belong to the harp. Britten is another composer that did this, or also Harrison Birtwistle, in a very different way. It\u2019s as if the music has always been inside the harp, and it was just waiting for somebody to bring it out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>But it\u2019s one thing to recognise this, and quite another to do it. As a composer, how do you define and identify virtuosity on the harp?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Probably the biggest challenge for composers is the harp\u2019s pedal system. Being not totally chromatic, young composers experience a lot of interdictions, they learn what they cannot do rather than what they can. It\u2019s important not to conflate the technical realities of the mechanism with the idea you must limit yourself. I think playing virtuoso &#8211; on any instrument &#8211; means performing against your habitual reflexes, your learned traditions. Every virtuoso has to be dextrous, but playing fast is not necessarily virtuoso. Many musicians can play fast and fluidly, more today than ever before, and plenty played like that before you, as well. The virtuoso has to create something that surprises the listener, amazes the listener. The transcendental quality of a virtuoso performance is born of this quality. You don\u2019t transcend anything by doing what\u2019s already come before many times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In your harp works, you combine what is striking, because it is new, with studied reference to music that has come before; your own previous compositions, and the works, also across other disciplines, of others. <em>Tocar<\/em> came after <em>Streets<\/em>; <em>Danse libre<\/em> is written in relation to the Debussy Dances. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.camac-harps.com\/en\/product\/mantovani-bruno-quintet-for-bertold-brecht-harp-and-string-quartet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Quintette pour Berthold Brecht<\/em><\/a> (2007) is an extension of stage music you wrote for Brecht\u2019s <em>A Man&#8217;s a Man<\/em>. What relationship is there between your scores, and their related sources?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m interested in the potential of a related text, and how I can bring this out. Because I\u2019m writing something new, thus expressing potential that hasn\u2019t been expressed before, I destabilize the source and the perceptions around it. <em>Danse libre<\/em> is a third dance because chronologically it follows Debussy\u2019s famous two. But musically, it could even be a first dance, preceding them. It anticipates the modal and almost archaic quality of Debussy\u2019s <em>Danse sacr\u00e9e<\/em>. It is also a \u201cDanse libre\u201d for the harp in the way it celebrates the instrument as a rhythmic, powerful and savage presence. The connection with Debussy creates another surprise. The audience think they know what they\u2019re going to hear&#8230;you must destabilize, to be interesting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I look for familiar hierarchies to invert, be they among sources or purely musically. If I write a work for violin and piano, I like to include passages where the violin accompanies, and the piano is the soloist. In Streets, the harp swings from a discrete tremolo to a huge solo. The <em>Quintette pour Berthold Brecht<\/em> contains very expressive passages, but ones which the harp interrupts highly percussively. There\u2019s enormous tension in the intense sequences, but also in the more enigmatic sections. The sparser material is in no way there to relax the discourse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Debussy said: \u201cWorks of art make rules, but rules do not make works of art.\u201d When you upturn our expectations, are you making new rules?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wouldn\u2019t speak so much of rules, but more of frameworks. Today, we are so free: we can write what we want, we can involve technology, we can travel wherever we want to go. That\u2019s not the same as abandoning all structure. You can\u2019t create a new expectation without an existing one to throw it into relief. You need a balance between what we know, and don\u2019t know. One layer feeds the next, and this is also why I\u2019m so interested in other scores and works of art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Isabelle Moretti described Danse libre as \u201ca beautiful homage from one of today\u2019s greatest composers, to the greatest of all masters of French music.\u201d Can we still speak of French music, as we can for the era of Debussy and Ravel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course. Today, everything is much more global, and we have far more access to all styles of music. So I would speak more of French \u201cmusics\u201d; there is a very big range of contemporary aesthetics, and it\u2019s important to be aware of and think critically about that. But still, English, Italian, French, German&#8230;music exists. This is because we are all formed by our native languages, and our cultures shape our ways of thinking. These are also our crucial frameworks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bruno Mantovani, thank you for these insights into your music, and your writing for the harp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21697\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 199px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/isabellemorettiphotoericlarraydieu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/isabellemorettiphotoericlarraydieu-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Isabelle Moretti \/ photo Eric Larrayadieu\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/isabellemorettiphotoericlarraydieu-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/isabellemorettiphotoericlarraydieu-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/isabellemorettiphotoericlarraydieu-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/isabellemorettiphotoericlarraydieu-1000x1506.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/isabellemorettiphotoericlarraydieu-300x452.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/isabellemorettiphotoericlarraydieu-800x1204.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/isabellemorettiphotoericlarraydieu-55x83.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/isabellemorettiphotoericlarraydieu-250x376.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabelle Moretti. Photo: Eric Larrayadieu<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In 2007, Bruno Mantovani wrote a magnificent harp solo piece, full of intensity, called <em>Tocar<\/em>. From that moment, I dreamed of him writing a concerto for me. I love the way he is &#8220;hair-raising&#8221;, quite outside the usual clich\u00e9s, instead engaging with the harp in its percussive, rhythmic register. Bruno totally understood what I wanted; the concerto is called <em>Danse libre<\/em> (&#8216;Free Dance&#8217;), and I am very grateful to him for this homage to freedom &#8211; tightly crafted, nonetheless! &#8211; that is so important to me. As is often the case in Bruno&#8217;s music, the work is rhythmically highly complex. But this is exactly what you need to give the impression of freedom and improvisation. At any rate, this what I feel in and love about the piece.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8211; Isabelle Moretti. This is an excerpt from an interview with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris (in French). Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchestredechambredeparis.com\/interview-de-la-pianiste-isabelle-moretti-concert-jeudi-7-decembre-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27617\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 190px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/marcelcara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/marcelcara-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marcel Cara\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/marcelcara-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/marcelcara-300x474.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/marcelcara-55x87.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/marcelcara-250x395.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/marcelcara.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcel Cara<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The immense quality of Bruno Mantovani&#8217;s work reveals itself, without a doubt, in the variety of the dynamics, the harmonic richness, the sombre, obsessive character, all in permanent interplay with the resonance of the harp. The first time I heard his preceding works (<em>Tocar<\/em>, the <em>Quintette pour Bertold Brecht<\/em> and also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brunomantovani.com\/en\/oeuvres-fiche.php?cotage=27763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Le Sette Chiese<\/a>, and the solo piano work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brunomantovani.com\/en\/oeuvres-fiche.php?cotage=28823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D\u00e9dale<\/a>), I was immediately struck by the power he unleashes, and the emotional intensity of the music. As well as being magnificent, it is able constantly to surprise the audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Marcel Cara<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27621\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/melanielaurent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/melanielaurent-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"M\u00e9lanie Laurent\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/melanielaurent-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/melanielaurent-300x451.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/melanielaurent-55x83.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/melanielaurent-250x376.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/01\/melanielaurent.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">M\u00e9lanie Laurent<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Bruno Mantovani&#8217;s harp pieces are great challenges for the performer, but their impressive virtuosity is amply rewarded by a corresponding result! By means of their very rich writing, they offer an infinite rainbow of colours and timbres, which allows them to be performed again and again. They also never cease to be surprising; they can even transcend the essence of what you thought was your instrument. For example, the trills &#8211; very important in Mantovani&#8217;s writing &#8211; give the impression of sustained sound, like bowed strings. The more rhythmic passages unleash a phenomenal and almost bestial energy, completely deconstructing the sweet or fairy-like image in which the harp is often trapped. <em>Tocar<\/em>, for example, has entered the canon of the harp&#8217;s contemporary repertoire. Its title is apt, because there is no other piece like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; M\u00e9lanie Laurent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Mantovani, director of the Paris Conservatoire from 2010 to 2019, is one of France\u2019s best-known contemporary composers. You&#8217;ve another chance to hear his extraordinary concerto &#8220;Danse libre&#8221; for harp and chamber orchestra, in Paris on January 28th. 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