Lucid music. Vivacity, wit, intensity, foldings and unfoldings of the pointillist material, embracing the thing itself and its contradiction – sensuality, drollery, dances, abysses like sudden draughts of air. Movement and standstill . . . Music that slaps, pinches, bites, muffles, growls. Here Pesson reinvigorates what might (already) be his own classicism (Carmagnole); draws a pencil moustache on Mozart, who is more than willing to wear it (Transformations du Menuet K. 355); hounds his language so far into the corner that it seems different, and probably becomes so, in the intransigent light of Opałka (Blanc mérité); a language that ramifies and scintillates in Proust (Ne pas oublier coq rouge dans jour craquelé); grows geometric in Pérec (Neige bagatelle); and denudes itself in ‘enfantines’ (Musica ficta). The Ensemble Cairn, a faithful partner of the label, under its director Guillaume Bourgogne, leads us into territories that could hardly be droller.
Tracklist:
Gérard Pesson (1958- )
01. Carmagnole
02. Musica ficta: Répéter la forêt (Hommage à Giuseppe Penone)
03. Musica Ficta: Nembutal (Une berceuse pour Jean Genet)
04. Musica Ficta: Une pensée pour la mer Égée
05. Ne pas oublier coq rouge dans jour craquelé (Moments Proust)
06. Musica Ficta: @vec Maria (Sur la scala enigmatica de Giuseppe Verdi)
07. Musica Ficta: Roméo est en miettes (Hommage à Charles-Valentin Alkan)
08. Musica Ficta: Origami Chopin
09. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Original
10. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Glissé
11. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Hoquet
12. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Sur quatre notes
13. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Tyrolienne
14. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: À la manière d’Olivier Messiaen
15. Neige bagatelle
16. Blanc mérité (Avec Roman Opalka)
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