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[…] is La Koro Sutro; this is a setting in Esperanto of the revered Mahayanan Buddhist Heart Sutra which contains the celebrated affirmation that "Form is emptiness, emptiness is only form". Smiles of the Buddha (Les sourires de Bouddha) is a setting for chamber choir by the Vietnamese composer Ton-That Tiêt (b. 1933) of verses by the 8th century Chinese poet Wang Wei. Tôn-Thất Tiết studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire with André Jolivet and followed his teacher's dictum that music should be “a means to express ideas and not an aim in itself”. Despite being an agnostic the Mahayana Buddhism of his native Vietnam is, along with Hinduism, one of the influences on Thất Tiết's music. Edmund Rubbra had a life-long interest in comparative religion and metaphysics, and following a flirtation with Theosophy briefly practiced Buddhism before returning to Catholicism. In 1947 Arnold Bax's […]
2023-10-02 03:30:00
Éventail (CD Review)
by Karl NehringRavel: Pièce en forme de Habanera; Saint-Saëns: Sonate, op.166; André Jolivet: Controversia*; Messiaen: Vocalise-Étude; Morceau de lecture; Ravel: Deux Mélodies hébraïques; Kaddisch; Milhaud: Vocalise-Étude; Debussy: Syrinx; Koechlin: Le repos de Tityre, op. 216/10; Jolivet: Chant pour les piroguiers de l'Orénoque; Debussy: Petite pièce; Saint-Saëns: Le Rossignol; Robert Casadesus: Sonate, op.23. Heinz Holliger, oboe, oboe d’amore; Anton Kernjak, piano; Alice Belugou, harp*. ECM New Series 2694Swiss oboist, composer, and conductor Heinz Holliger (b. 1939) has enjoyed a long and illustrious musical career. Many composers have written works for him, including Frank Martin, Olivier Messiaen, Witold Lutoslawski, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Elliott Carter, Hans Werner Henze, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Isang Yun. A glance at the ECM website reveals that Éventail (“Fan”) is the latest of more that two dozen recordings he has made for the label in those roles of composer, conductor, and performer. Introducing his latest recording, Holliger writes: “The fan that opens like cautious butterfly wings, barely opening or timidly closing again, is the reflection of […]
2023-08-07 14:34:14
Chaminade and Jolivet, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: August 7, 2023. Chaminade and Jolivet. Two French composers were born this week, Cécile Chaminade, on August 8th of 1857, and André Jolivet, on the same day but in 1905. We suspect that in the last three years the music of Chaminade has been played more than throughout the previous 100: we live in the era of Wokeness when a composer’s gender (or race) is considered more important than his or her talent, and as there is a limited number of female composers, even the salon music of Chaminade becomes popular among presenters and performers, if not necessarily the listening public. This is not to say that in the past, women composers weren’t discriminated against: Chaminade, for example, was accused by her contemporary music critics of being both too feminine in her songs and lyrical piano pieces, and too masculine in the larger, more energetic pieces, […]
2023-08-07 14:14:40
André Jolivet - Concerto for Bassoon, Strings, Harp and PianoMaurice Allard (Bassoon)Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra)André Jolivet (Conductor)
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