collectif9 – No Time for Chamber Music (2021) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Collectif 9 is a Montreal-based string ensemble whose main focus is an original exploration of the classical repertoire, including transcriptions for chamber ensemble of large-scale works. Alpha is starting a collaboration with this innovative group and now presents its very first album, recorded in 2018 and consisting of music by (and inspired by) Gustav Mahler, “No Time for Chamber Music”, a nod to Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, inspired in its turn by Mahler’s Second Symphony.

Mahler himself often quoted his own works, and his rich instrumental textures have provided a source of inspiration for composers and arrangers alike. The programme begins with two works drawn from his First Symphony, “Comme un bruit de la nature” (Like a sound of Nature) and “L’Enterrement du chasseur” (The hunter’s Burial), inspired by a woodcut by the nineteenth-century artist Moritz von Schwind in which the animals mourn the death of the hunter.

The ensemble’s double bass player, Thibault Bertin-Maghit, made the arrangements, while Philippe Hersant has written a Fantaisie based on fragments from a number of works by Mahler.

Tracklist:
1. Like a Sound of Nature (From G. Mahler’s Symphony No. 1) (03:17)
2. The Hunter’s Funeral (From G. Mahler’s Symphony No. 1) (05:38)
3. Funeral March (From G. Mahler’s Symphony No. 2) (14:20)
4. L”andler (From G. Mahler’s Symphony No. 2) (01:50)
5. I Have a Burning Knife (From G. Mahler’s Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen) (03:04)
6. Funeral March (From G. Mahler’s Symphony No. 5) (06:01)
7. The Farewell (From G. Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde) (05:28)
8. Fantaisie `a la mani`ere de callot (07:12)
9. Phantasie aus Don Juan – Imagination (From G. Mahler’s Lieder und Ges”ange, Vol. 1) (02:17)

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