Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé, Ilya Gringolts, Florent Jodelet – Michael Jarrell: Orchestral Works (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé, Ilya Gringolts, Florent Jodelet – Michael Jarrell: Orchestral Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:01 minutes | 885 MB | Genre: Classical
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The music of Michael Jarrell has been said to ‘examine states of dream and unreality, searching for a moment of truth’ – a truth which is often found in the lowest sonorities and slowest tempi, a place where time stands still. His works are often interrelated, not only by a certain sensitivity or a distinctive tone, but also by the recurrence of particular features that he reworks in different contexts. The present disc combines three orchestral works composed over a period of almost a quarter of a century. In Paysages avec figures absentes, played here by solo violinist Ilya Gringolts, the composer wished to find a new approach to writing for violin within an ensemble. Premièred a few months before this recording by the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé, the Sechs Augeblicke for orchestra suggest a concentration or implosion of sound matter within musical fragments, as a sort of reference to Schubert. Finally, the guiding idea of Un long fracas somptueux de rapide céleste with solo percussionist Florent Jodelet is a short, powerful ‘initial explosion’ that recurs, like a punctuation mark, throughout the piece, more or less regularly, in different forms.

Tracklist:
1-01. Ilya Gringolts – Paysages avec figures absentes “Nachlese IV” (18:20)
1-02. Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire – 6 Augenblicke: No. 1, — (05:07)
1-03. Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire – 6 Augenblicke: No. 2, — (04:39)
1-04. Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire – 6 Augenblicke: No. 3, — (01:44)
1-05. Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire – 6 Augenblicke: No. 4, — (01:22)
1-06. Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire – 6 Augenblicke: No. 5, — (02:35)
1-07. Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire – 6 Augenblicke: No. 6, — (03:11)
1-08. Florent Jodelet – …Un long fracas somptueux de rapide céleste… (17:00)

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