Between listening sessions, don't forget to relax
With our playful quiz Kima Konpozé?: the art of manuscripts is not reserved for the literary world, it is also at the heart of musical composition (and publishing). For several weeks now, we've shared with you the opportunity to explore our editorial collection, make the most of it! A unique source of surprises and encounters.
Extract n ° 1 : In only a few works for solo voice, he has joined Luciano Berio in the pantheon of immortals who strived for a liberation of the voice.
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Extract n° 2 : He wrote these lines for the violin of Daniel Hope, whose surname is a theme on its own that goes so well with the music of this musical aesthete with such a generous heart.
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Extract n° 3 : Only an excessive lover of History with a capital H could aspire to such a thing, only a compulsive reader could imagine it, only an expert in musical forms could compose it: with the novel Les Bienveillantes brought to the stage, his eponymous opera has made him one of the great lyrical composers of the century.
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Extract n° 4 : Whether it's Lancelot Hamelin or, more recently, Maurice Maeterlinck, it is always with a certain sense of sovereignty that he chooses his librettists.
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Extract n° 5 : Is it because he comes from the most cosmopolitan of all South American cities that he feels so comfortable in the big European cities? Or because his works carry the liberating and airy perfume of the vast expanses of his homeland?
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Extract n° 6 : From the outset he dedicated a concerto to his instrument, the piano. He has persisted and created with tact (but no less brilliance!) a second concerto opus that he has toured on the roads of Ile-de-France.
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Extract n° 7 : It was with one of his own works that the Besançon Competition chose its finalists in 2018, a competition that crowned Seiji Ozawa back in his time.
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Extract n° 8 : In the 19th century, those artists that described society as it was, in its harshness but also its abundance, were called naturalists. Today we could call a naturalist the artist that describes life as it is, both chaotic and fertile, a permanent exchange between bodies and their environment. Our composer would undoubtedly be such an artist, our Zola of the 21st century, and his work premiered last autumn by the Spanish National Orchestra, his manifesto.
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Extract n° 9 : His writing, noble and slender, is so famous that it serves today as iconography for many a history of music. Unique, impossible to mistake for another, it shimmers ex ante his music, as would an anticipatory phenomenology.
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