Ensemble Cairn, Guillaume Bourgogne – Pesson: Blanc mérité (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Lucid music. Vivacity, wit, intensity, foldings and unfoldings of the pointillist material, embracing the thing itself and its contradiction – sensuality, drollery, dances, abysses like sudden draughts of air. Movement and standstill . . . Music that slaps, pinches, bites, muffles, growls. Here Pesson reinvigorates what might (already) be his own classicism (Carmagnole); draws a pencil moustache on Mozart, who is more than willing to wear it (Transformations du Menuet K. 355); hounds his language so far into the corner that it seems different, and probably becomes so, in the intransigent light of Opałka (Blanc mérité); a language that ramifies and scintillates in Proust (Ne pas oublier coq rouge dans jour craquelé); grows geometric in Pérec (Neige bagatelle); and denudes itself in ‘enfantines’ (Musica ficta). The Ensemble Cairn, a faithful partner of the label, under its director Guillaume Bourgogne, leads us into territories that could hardly be droller.

Tracklist:
01. Ensemble Cairn / Guillaume Bourgogne – Carmagnole (13:03)
02. Caroline Cren – Musica ficta: Répéter la forêt (Hommage à Giuseppe Penone) (00:42)
03. Caroline Cren – Musica Ficta: Nembutal (Une berceuse pour Jean Genet) (01:52)
04. Caroline Cren – Musica Ficta: Une pensée pour la mer Égée (00:45)
05. Ensemble Cairn – Ne pas oublier coq rouge dans jour craquelé (Moments Proust) (10:27)
06. Caroline Cren – Musica Ficta: @vec Maria (Sur la scala enigmatica de Giuseppe Verdi) (01:58)
07. Caroline Cren – Musica Ficta: Roméo est en miettes (Hommage à Charles-Valentin Alkan) (00:48)
08. Caroline Cren – Musica Ficta: Origami Chopin (01:47)
09. Ensemble Cairn – Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Original (01:43)
10. Ensemble Cairn – Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Glissé (01:20)
11. Ensemble Cairn – Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Hoquet (01:54)
12. Ensemble Cairn – Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Sur quatre notes (01:29)
13. Ensemble Cairn – Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Tyrolienne (02:01)
14. Ensemble Cairn – Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: À la manière d’Olivier Messiaen (02:08)
15. Ensemble Cairn – Neige bagatelle (02:48)
16. Ensemble Cairn / Guillaume Bourgogne / Clément Himbert – Blanc mérité (Avec Roman Opalka) (20:14)