Par ADOLPHE BRUCE. This work was commissioned by violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv to celebrate and commemorate the life of her namesake, Solomiya Krushelnytska. A Ukranian soprano, Krushelnyts (1872-1952) left home at the age of 21 to study voice in Italy, where she became a very successful opera performer and close friends with Puccini. She is often credited with saving Madama Butterfly from obscurity …

Par FUJIKURA DAI. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Par WEEKS JAMES. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Par JOLAS BETSY. 'Almost half a century after 'B for sonata', here is another musical evocation of my intriguing trip to Bali. Yannis Xenakis and Toru Takemitsu were there, among others, and we were walking around in the dark one evening when a Topeng appeared to us, in full action: Balinese musical theatre with one actor successively playing several legendary characters by means of mask changes c…

Par PAREDES HILDA. When Paris abducted Helen and provoked the Trojan War, Agamemnon and Menelaus were absent from home for ten years. Agamemnon's wife Clytaemnestra had small cause to love him: he had married her by force after killing her former husband Tantalus, and then gone away to war. On his way he sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia at Aulis in order to be able to go ahead with his enterp…

Par DAVIS OLIVER. 'For many years the violinist Kerenza Peacock and I have been discussing the concept of a piece about trees. One day I received in the post from her a book by Annie Davidson entitled, ‘How to be More Tree’. This brilliant book became the inspiration for the Arboretum Suite. The first tree I decided to write about was Aspen. I read that Aspen trees work together sharing water and …

(revidierte Ausgabe 2009). Par ODEH-TAMIMI SAMIR. / Date parution : 2022-06-08/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. / Date parution : 2022-06-14/ Répertoire / Quintette à Cordes

Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. Cette pièce de musique de chambre, composée en 1907?1908, marque une rupture non seulement dans l??uvre de Schönberg, mais aussi plus largement dans l?histoire moderne de la musique. Le système tonal majeur/mineur qui s?imposait depuis des siècles est, au fil des quatre mouvements, abandonné de manière toujours plus sensible au profit d?une atonalité libre. Cette rupture ave…

Par ADOLPHE BRUCE. Study in Solitude was composed in New York during the stay-at-home lockdown of 2020. The piece is a contemplation of the separation from family, friends, and community that everyone was experiencing in some way around the world. The feeling is not just of loneliness, but of being trapped. Staying home for so long, the composer found himself at times pacing around the apartment a…