Violin
14,99€
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| Publishing House: Coriolan
| Year of Publication: 2023
| Composer: Toshio Hosokawa, Manon Lepauvre
| Performer: Léo Belthoise
| Format: CD
| Language: French
| Genres: Solo
| Styles: Contemporary
This disc is a sound manifesto sublimating the relationship between time and gesture in the contemporary artistic landscape. It presents a radical approach to solo playing through the work of two composers who each defend a singular vision of musical aesthetics.
Manon Lepauvre, a French composer trained at the CNSM in Paris and Lyon, is interested in Ys 0 in the exploration of multiple modes of playing, the virtuosity of articulations and in the structure of sound materials — further augmenting them with live electronics to create a veritable interactive fireworks display.
Toshio Hosokawa, a Japanese composer trained in Germany, evokes traditional Gagaku in his piece Winter Bird, in five parts, where the influence of the Darmstadt school is still perceptible. In the piece Spell, Hosokawa expounds the concept of sound calligraphy, in which the musician’s gesture unfolds like the brushstroke on a white canvas, giving full expressive force to the briefest events
These four pieces are interspersed with interludes from Ayres for the Violin, by the Italian composer Nicola Matteis, himself a virtuoso violinist. Installed in London in 1672, he composed four books for violin which prefigured the work of Tartini, Corelli, Locatelli and many others. This alternating perspective allows for airy listening and allows the listener to trace lines of force that lead us to our music of today.
