Saturday, 24 January 2015

Thierry Escaich - Magic Circus. Chamber Music with Winds (2014) {Indesens Records}


Thierry Escaich - Magic Circus. Chamber Music with Winds (2014) {Indesens Records}
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Classical / Chamber Music / Contemporary Classical / Saxopohone


When you sign on, like Thierry Escaich in a filiation which included Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Dutilleux, writing for wind instruments are self-evident. Admittedly, this composer and organist draws the essence of his language to many other sources, from Bach to Bartуk through Mendelssohn, Brahms and Franck. But an attentive musician musical colors could not resist the urge to put his composing brush on the palette of wood and brass. Organist and internationally renowned improviser, Thierry Escaich is one of the most talented composers of his generation and a major figure of the French music scene.

These pieces are remarkable for the variety of expression and mood achieved within a consistent harmonic and rhythmic language. Common characteristics to which the composer returns time and again are passacaglia-like variation structure over rhythmically irregular ground basses, ostinati and restlessly changing meters and pulse. Broadly and adventurously tonal, with an exhilarating rhythmic vitality, Escaich's idiom lends itself to powerfully evocative narratives of unspoken but clearly delineated programmes such as the blurred, fading memories of generations of departed dancers in Le Bal, the dreamlike Antiphons, with its entangled persistent threads of melody and unstable ground basses, one of the most ingenious sets of diversions around the Dies irae ever in the tenebrous Song, or the fragments of baroque mechanism and renaissance polyphony of Mecanic Song. The composer repeatedly achieves in miniature an almost Mahlerian feat of incorporating the banal - the sad clowns' music of the circus tent or silent film, Satie-esque acrobats, slapstick and colorful processions; waltzes, tangos and popular songs - into a rich tapestry of vivid, almost hallucinatory, sometimes haunted memory. All the pieces dance, and sing; all hint at a serious purpose or message half- hidden in the shadows, while the brightly glittering activity of the appealing surface draws the listener in.

tracklist:
01 - Initium Wind Ensemble (octet) - Magic Circus
02 - Thierry Escaich & Initium Wind Ensemble - Mecanic Song
03 - Axone Saxophone Quartet - Le Bal
04 - Indesens Septet - Antiennes oubliees
05 - Initium Wind Ensemble (quintet) - Trois Instants fugitifs - Instant 1
06 - Initium Wind Ensemble (quintet) - Trois Instants fugitifs - Instant 2
07 - Initium Wind Ensemble (quintet) - Trois Instants fugitifs - Instant 3
08 - Vendome Clarinet Quartet - Ground IV - Part 1
09 - Vendome Clarinet Quartet - Ground IV - Part 2
10 - Nicolas Prost & Paris Saxophone Ensemble - Le Chants des tenebres
11 - Eric Aubier & Thierry Escaich - Tanz-Fantasie

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