by David Stark | Sep 29, 2011 | Recordings
Released January 2010. Recognised as one of the youngest and most gifted contemporary composers, Guillaume Connesson brings together an imaginatively diffuse range of influences, from the riches of the musical traditions of his native France to John Adams, Steve Reich...
by David Stark | Sep 29, 2011 | Recordings
Released May 2010. Prélude, choral & fugue Symphonic Variations Prelude, Aria & Final Les Djinns Symphonic Poem Prelude, fugue & variation Following his highly acclaimed award-winning debut album on Naïve, Bertrand Chamayou collaborates with one of...
by David Stark | Sep 29, 2011 | Recordings
Released November 2009. Résurrection, Roussel’s first orchestral work, is a delicate and mysterious piece inspired by Tolstoy’s last novel, while Le marchand de sable qui passe (The Sandman) is a tuneful, colourfully orchestrated suite. His Symphony No. 1 ‘Poem of the...
by David Stark | Sep 29, 2011 | Recordings
Released April 2008. A perennial outsider in French music, Albert Roussel was the tutor of a whole generation of composers, including such diverse figures as Eric Satie and Edgard Varèse. The three works inclided here outline the transitional phase in which...