collectif9 – Vagues et ombres (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:37 minutes | 1,92 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
collectif9, well-known for its innovative programming and its unique arrangements of the classical repertory, here tackles the music of Debussy, following a first recording devoted to Mahler (ALPHA770). With Clair de lune , La Mer and Des pas sur la neige , the Montreal collective invites us into a sumptuous theatre of shadows and waves: ‘Could we, as nine string players, perform Claude Debussy’s La Mer and do it justice? In a musical style where timbre and colour are paramount, attempting to interpret this emblematic work seemed outrageous; but come to think of it, we like a challenge. This is certainly a reinterpretation. Being fewer in number allows us to otherwise reveal a rich rhythmic interplay already present in the work while shedding new light on the balance of voices and harmonies.’ A work by composer Luna Pearl Woolf completes the programme: Contact, ‘a sonic view into the underwater world of beluga whales in the St Lawrence Estuary’.
Tracklist:
01. collectif9 – Debussy: Études, CD 143, Livre 1: IV Pour les sixtes (Arr. for Ensemble by Thibault Bertin-Maghit) (04:05)
02. collectif9 – Debussy: Préludes, Livre 1, CD 125: VI. … Des pas sur la neige (Arr. for Ensemble by Thibault Bertin-Maghit) (04:05)
03. collectif9 – Debussy: Suite bergamasque, CD 82: IV. Passepied (Arr. for Ensemble by Thibault Bertin-Maghit) (03:34)
04. collectif9 – Debussy: Suite bergamasque, CD 82: III. Clair de lune (Arr. for Ensemble by Thibault Bertin-Maghit) (05:23)
05. collectif9 – Woolf: Contact (12:02)
06. collectif9 – Debussy: La mer, CD 111: I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer (Arr. for Ensemble by Thibault Bertin-Maghit) (08:30)
07. collectif9 – Debussy: La mer, CD 111: II. Jeux de vagues (Arr. for Ensemble by Thibault Bertin-Maghit) (07:07)
08. collectif9 – Debussy: La mer, CD 111: III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Arr. for Ensemble by Thibault Bertin-Maghit) (08:48)
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