Dialogue slave, Sofia Goubaïdoulina & Svetlana Alexievitch

Two major creators from the Soviet sphere, composer Sofia Goubaïdoulina and writer Svetlana Alexievitch, meet in this show conceived and performed by bassoonists Antoine Pecqueur and Amandine Rivière.

Musician and journalist Antoine Pecqueur develops projects at the crossroads of music and societal issues. Amandine Rivière, a bassoonist committed to creation and transmission, shares with him a taste for contemporary repertoires and forms that bring music into dialogue with other disciplines. Together, they conceive a show where the bassoon becomes in turn voice, sound material, and an instrument of memory.

Through Goubaïdoulina's Sonata for two bassoons, composed in 1977, and excerpts from Alexievitch's War's Unwomanly Face, published in 1985, music and literature enter into dialogue. Goubaïdoulina makes heard, through sound material, the tensions and upheavals of her era; Alexievitch gathers the voices of women who lived through the war, giving a place to those whom history has too often left in the shadows.

The show thus weaves a multifaceted narrative around women, war, and memory, where words extend sounds and music becomes another space of testimony. By bringing musical creation and documentary speech into dialogue, "Dialogue slave" invites us to listen differently to the traces left by Soviet history and to gauge their resonance in our present.

Coordination : Antoine Pecqueur