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[…] Humet (b.1968). Buddhism and Eastern metaphysics are an important influence in Ramon Humet's music; notably in his tetraptych Música del Esse (Music of non-being), and in other works such as Quatre jardins Zen (Four Zen gardens) and Jardí de Haikus (Garden of Haikus). Herman Hesse's 1922 novel Siddhartha, which recounts the spiritual journey of a young man seeking enlightenment, was a sacred text of the 1960 and 70s counterculture. It inspired Claude Vivier's eponymous orchestral work composed in 1976 to a commission from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Claude Vivier (1948-1983) died in 1983 at the age of 35. He is one of a number of hugely talented but rarely performed composers whose cause is not helped by current classical programming which places more emphasis on click bait potential than artistic merit. John Cage and Philip Glass are the two modern composers usually […]
2024-02-15 21:02:07
PREVIEW | The Happenstancers Present FUTURE PASTORALE, Based On Claude Vivier’s Ojikawa
Chamber music meets theatre, and acoustic meets electronic in Future Pastorale, a concert experience featuring Claude Vivier’s Ojikawa.
2023-09-15 15:17:37
Barbican, LondonThe London Symphony Orchestra’s associate artist Barbara Hannigan conducted a programme that mixed mainstream repertoire by Haydn and Strauss with less familiar music from the second half of the 20th century.With the departure of
2023-06-06 10:18:00
A Rumi with a view of Claude Vivier
[…] in Persian and Arabic they are joined by Tunisian singer Ghalia Benali in an album that provides a refreshingly astute viewpoint on the over-exposed Rumi. Even further off the predictability scale is the Constantinople Ensemble's album Cette Ville Étrange, a reimagining of the renowned 1981 Et je reverrai cette ville étrange (And I will see this strange city again) for chamber ensemble including Balinese gong by Canadian composer Claude Vivier. His lack of virtue signalling potential means Vivier is now, quite wrongly, an almost-forgotten figure. But his music has more merit and more attitude than the bland box-ticking 'discoveries' favoured by today's concert programmers, and Vivier has featured here several times, notably in my 2010 post Pushing the classical music envelope. In 2014, ten Montréal musicians, each from another tradition, came together to re-imagine Claude Vivier's challenging Et je reverrai cette ville étrange. They […]
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