Conducted by Roland Hayrabedian, the Musicatreize choir evoked the divine golden rain of the legend in Danaé (1970), in a suggestive vocal strafing supported by percussion, before offering the Mulhouse audience the premiere of the recent Heol dall.
A particularly significant work, this choir accompanied by two pianos masterfully played by Claire Désert and Marie-Josèphe Jude, and whose Breton title means "blind sun", develops in an intense rustle, cut by psalmodic solos, the lively feeling of a quest. Armed with poetry as much as mythology, the composer sings of "the impulse towards death as an essential manifestation of the desire to live", an Epicurean substitute for religious aspiration. A provisional omega that speaks volumes about a kind of mysticism that remains alive in the creative act.

             Christian Fruchart, Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace 28 January 2004

Elisabeth Chojnacka, Françoise Kubler and Accroche-Note, the voices of Musicatreize and then the Percussions de Strasbourg were the experienced and efficient artisans of the François-Bernard Mâche day at Musica.
In the presence of the composer, of course, the event produced an elegant monograph on this musician born in 1935, now a member of the Institut, a scholar and musicologist who was also an academic in Strasbourg. His entire body of work, spanning more than thirty years, nourishes, through infinite reflections on the relationship between language and music, a contemporary meditation on the universal archetypes of culture, and on nature as a model.
And his original approach has always resulted in pages of the utmost finesse, in which sonority plays the leading role, but does not shy away from sometimes highly advanced technologies. These are always lively pieces, with a dramatic structure. Mâche takes us on astonishing planetary journeys, in which he draws on the deep historical and cultural strata of vanished civilisations as much as on the sounds of the natural elements.
...[Musicatreize], supported also by the pianos of Marie-Josèphe Jude and Claire Désert, gave a very happy fate to Heol dall, a work premiered this spring at the Filature in Mulhouse, in which the peaceful romanticism of Novalis offers an antithesis to the apology of the desire for death in a text by Sappho.

       Marc Munch, Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace 23 September 2004