"le Tombeau de Poulenc" is a music piece written by French composers Jean-Christophe Cholet and Alban Darche, with the complicity of Matthias Rüegg, leader of Vienna Art Orchestra
Jean-Christophe Cholet and Alban Darche have had for long the idea of working together for a common project in big line-up. Festival "Presence" at Radio France gave them the opportunity to think about it from 2010. The project became real in 2015 with the creation of "Le Tombeau de Poulenc", gathering musicians form their respective bands: Diagonal and Orphicube. The name of this new line-up is "la Diagonale du Cube".
Their common idea for this project was to create an original work that would be inspired by Francis Poulenc. The instrumentation chosen for La Diagonale du Cube enables to sound like a jazz orchestra as well as to recreate a concertino in order to develop a line-up that echoes Poulenc's work: the concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra. 
Mathias Ruëgg (leader of Vienna Art Orchestra) accepted with great pleasure to take part in the musical writing as co-composer. 
The fragrance, the spirit of Poulenc are here, but the project and its frame are free. The point is not to walk in the master’s footsteps, but to become imbued with his whole work in order to create a modern and original music, free from any codes and strongly bolstered by the influences nourishing the 3 composers. The idea is not to juxtapose the 3 distinct suites of each composer, but to alternate their music, thanks to a scenario built as a concerto grosso.