Ilya Gringolts: Orchestral Works – SUPER-AUDIO CD

Title: Orchestral Works
Artist: Ilya Gringolts
Label: Bis
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 7318599926728
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023-12-08
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD

The music of Michael Jarrell has been said to ‘examine states of dream and unreality, searching for a moment of truth’ – a truth which is often found in the lowest sonorities and slowest tempi, a place where time stands still. His works are often interrelated, not only by a certain sensitivity or a distinctive tone, but also by the recurrence of particular features that he reworks in different contexts. The present disc combines three orchestral works composed over a period of almost a quarter of a century. In Paysages avec figures absentes, played here by solo violinist Ilya Gringolts, the composer wished to find a new approach to writing for violin within an ensemble. Premièred a few months before this recording by the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé, the Sechs Augeblicke for orchestra suggest a concentration or implosion of sound matter within musical fragments, as a sort of reference to Schubert. Finally, the guiding idea of Un long fracas somptueux de rapide céleste with solo percussionist Florent Jodelet is a short, powerful ‘initial explosion’ that recurs, like a punctuation mark, throughout the piece, more or less regularly, in different forms

Tracks:
1.1 Paysages Avec Figures Absentes, “Nachlese Iv” [18:00]
1.2 I. – [05:01]
1.3 II. – [04:36]
1.4 III. – [01:41]
1.5 IV. – [01:21]
1.6 V. – [02:31]
1.7 VI. – [02:48]
1.8 … Un Long Fracas Somptueux de Rapide Céleste… [16:47]