{"id":143109,"date":"2025-08-15T19:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/interviews-panm360\/viree-classique-2025-composer-pour-loctobasse-un-defi-de-taille\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:08:12","slug":"viree-classique-2025-composer-pour-loctobasse-un-defi-de-taille","status":"publish","type":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/viree-classique-2025-composer-pour-loctobasse-un-defi-de-taille\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Tour 2025 | Composing For The Cctobass: A Daunting Challenge?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Easy, compose for the octobass? Acquired by the OSM in 2016 at the request of Ken Nagano following a commission from Canimex, a company run by patrons Roger and Huguette Dubois, this instrument, measuring 11 ft. 10 in. (3.6 m) in height and comprising hundreds of parts, pedals, and a system of levers that allow notes to be marked on the neck, which would otherwise be too high, is usually associated with the large orchestras of the Romantic period, when orchestral forces were steadily expanding. Following this new addition to its instrumentarium, the OSM acquired two additional octobasses, which could be heard in Berlioz&#8217;s Les Troyens in February 2020, given the enthusiasm generated by this instrument. This makes the OSM one of the only orchestras in the world to own three models of this massive instrument. But is it possible to give this orchestral instrument a role as a chamber instrument?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5328.JPEG-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5328.JPEG-2.png 600w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5328.JPEG-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5328.JPEG-2-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5328.JPEG-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5328.JPEG-2-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5328.JPEG-2-500x500.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Composer Thierry C\u00f4t\u00e9 has lent himself to this stylistic and compositional exercise. His work R\u00e9silience for octobass, two cellos, and oboe will be premiered and performed during the Maison symphonique\u2019s Discovery Tour as part of the Vir\u00e9e classique. Alexandre Villemaire of PAN M 360 spoke with him about this task he has undertaken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Composer pour l&#039;octobasse\u00a0: un d\u00e9fi de taille? - Entrevue avec le compositeur Thierry C\u00f4t\u00e9\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RRAWtK-drQE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo Credits\u00a0:\u00a0Antoine Saito<\/p>\n\n\n    <div class=\"panm-ads-wrapper alignfull\"><span class=\"panm-ads-copy\">Publicit\u00e9 panam<\/span><div class=\"panm-ads-render\" data-ads-id=\"142754\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy, compose for the octobass? Acquired by the OSM in 2016 at the request of Ken Nagano following a commission from Canimex, a company run by patrons Roger and Huguette Dubois, this instrument, measuring 11 ft. 10 in. 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