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2018-10-01 01:21:00
The West Australian“Contemporary” is still a dirty word among some more conservative members of the classical music audience. Capucon says there is nothing to fear when it comes to Dubugnon's music. “We have to be careful with the words 'contemporary music'.” he agrees.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-05-03 12:30:30
Is France rejecting the Boulez line for the Bacri solution?
[…] populist quarters. From then on, Bacri began to explore tradition, without surrendering to compromise or imitation. This fell beyond the scope of established new music in France, with the result that Bacri found himself outside the establishment. But with the withering of modernist ideals in recent years, Bacri’s music has got increasingly performed and began to be understood as a viable way out of stagnating modernism. In this he was not alone: Karol Beffa, Richard Dubugnon and Guillaume Connesson are, like Bacri, trying to find alternative ways of looking at new music and of finding stimulating perspectives away from the mental prison that new music in France had become. So, this concert at Radio France is, in fact, a spectacular confirmation of the place new tonal music has acquired in the heart of the French musical establishment, and it celebrates Bacri as one of its most gifted and muscially profound […]
2017-01-12 18:30:03
Richard Dubugnon: Arcanes Symphoniques CD review – joy in the orchestra's swooning sonic possibilities
Gubisch/Dolié/ONF/Petitgirard/Waldman/Gabel (Naxos)In some ways the orchestral music of Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon, who is 50 next year, wouldn’t seem out of place in the Vienna of a century ago: joy in the orchestra’s swooning sonic possibilities is everywhere evident in the three works recorded here. First there’s the glitter and grand gestures of five of the Arcanes Symphoniques, the deck of tarot-inspired pieces that occupied Dubugnon on and off throughout his 30s. But the real novelties are the premiere recordings, taken live in concert, of two heady settings of even headier texts by novelist Stéphane Héaume. Triptyque (1999) pits a baritone, the resonant Thomas Dolié, against lean but vivid textures, astringent harpsichord and eerie celesta cutting through wind and brass. Le Songe Salinas (2003), a nocturnal “opera for one singer” using full orchestra alongside North African instruments, is persuasively delivered by mezzo Nora Gubisch and the Orchestre National de France, conducted […]
2016-12-22 16:15:02
Trusler/Wass/Lipman (Orchid Classics) Here is a genuinely imaginative charity record, a download of which would make an excellent virtual stocking-filler. Violinist Matthew Trusler and pianist Ashley Wass have put together Wonderland to raise money for a children’s hospice, via the foundation set up in 2008 in memory of Trusler’s newborn son. Thirteen composers have each contributed a new piece to correspond with a chapter of Alice in Wonderland, linked by Louis de Bernières’s new narration, which is delivered with delicious dryness by Maureen Lipman. The composers offer quite a cross-section of today’s scene, but the easy tunesmiths are outnumbered by edgier offerings from, among others, Stuart MacRae, Sally Beamish, Augusta Read Thomas and Poul Ruders. Stephen Hough’s Mad Hatter piece has crazed snatches of Tea for Two colliding with the Brahms lullaby; Richard Dubugnon’s dreamy meditation on the Queen’s Croquet Ground is followed by a ghostly helping of Mock Turtle Soup […]
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