Les Plus Belles Musiques Des Films De Miyazaki | Grissini Project

At Salle Molière, we welcome Grissini Project for Les Plus Belles Musiques des Films de Miyazaki

From our stage at Salle Molière, we are proud to host Grissini Project with the program Les Plus Belles Musiques des Films de Miyazaki, a concert designed for listeners who cherish cinematic lyricism as much as chamber-music intimacy. In our hall’s warm acoustics, the ensemble’s strings and piano speak with immediacy and color, revealing the craftsmanship and emotion that have made these film scores beloved across generations. We curate this evening for families, devoted cinephiles, and classical audiences alike: a setting where the hush before the first phrase matters, where melodies breathe, and where the smallest timbral nuance can echo to the last row. As a venue rooted in Lyon’s musical life, we value programs that connect memory and discovery; this one invites you to hear iconic themes afresh—tender lullabies, wind-borne waltzes, forest whispers, and soaring flights—given the focus and finesse of a recital, yet carrying the sweep of the cinema. The ensemble’s approach blends faithful homage with chamber clarity, allowing each motif to emerge with narrative purpose, and our stage configuration will amplify that intimacy, with sightlines and lighting tailored to the music’s poetry.

The artist’s current momentum and the program’s interpretive promise

Grissini Project continues to expand its artistic footprint with new arrangements that foreground the storytelling power of melody and the expressive range of strings, piano, and voice. Their recent seasons have seen packed rooms across European circuits, a growing online audience for studio sessions, and fresh collaborations that enrich their palette while staying true to the heart of the originals. What excites us at Salle Molière is the ensemble’s capacity to sculpt phrases with chamber precision—agogic rubato that breathes, finely balanced counter-lines, and an ear for the harmonic suspensions that make listeners hold their breath. In this program, they trace a musical arc that mirrors Miyazaki’s thematic world: ecological wonder, quiet courage, and the shimmer of everyday magic. You will hear lines passed like lanterns between instruments; pianissimo textures that bloom into full-bodied resonance; and rhythmic dances that sparkle without hurrying. Rather than overwhelm with orchestral mass, Grissini Project invites the audience closer, revealing the inner life of each motif. Their performance practice is informed by classical discipline, yet it embraces the cinematic immediacy that first captivated audiences, making the familiar feel newly discovered under our hall’s attentive acoustics.

For our team at Salle Molière, presenting this concert also means crafting the space around the sound. Expect a stage layout that favors transparency—piano angled to project warmth, strings positioned for natural blend, and lighting that traces the music’s narrative without distraction. The setlist journeys through iconic pages associated with lifelong favorites, touching on the wind and sea, the spirit-haunted forest, the clockwork of cities, and moonlit rooftops, with nods to Mononoke Hime, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, Tonari no Totoro, Majo no Takkyūbin, and Hauru no Ugoku Shiro. Between numbers, the ensemble’s pacing offers space for reflection, and, yes, the encore tradition is embraced when the room’s energy asks for one more memory to carry home. We cherish programs that unite generations; parents and children exchange knowing smiles at the first bar of a theme they share, while seasoned concertgoers savor the voicing, bow articulations, and pedaling that reveal fresh layers. In this spirit, Les Plus Belles Musiques des Films de Miyazaki at Salle Molière is not merely a tribute; it is a living conversation between screen and stage, imagined worlds and the resonant wood of our instruments, the cinema’s glow and the breath of a room listening together.