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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