La Tempete; Simon-Pierre Bestion; Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas
Release Date: 25 August 2023
Label: Outhere / Alpha
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3760014199851
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Bach minimaliste
Description
J. S. Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in D minor is the centrepiece of this programme: 'This music seems absolutely modern to me: a continuous, endlessly developing thread, giving it an almost hypnotic aspect... These adjectives also belong to the vocabulary of today's music, whether it is "popular", as in techno, or "art music", as in the so-called repetitive or minimalist movement', says Simon-Pierre Bestion. Two hundred and thirty years after Bach, Gorecki wrote a harpsichord concerto in the same key, using it 'as a very rhythmic and extremely stealthy instrument'. John Adams, a leading figure of the American minimalist movement, composed Shaker Loops in 1978: 'This masterpiece takes on a special interest because we play on instruments with gut strings. That gives the music a very special texture.' Bach's Passacaglia ('a single musical theme heard forty-one times') and Jehan Alain's Litanies complete this programme, which brings together the Bestion brothers, with Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas as soloist in the concertos.
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
Frankfurt Radio Symphony; Alain Altinoglu
La Nereide
Justin Taylor
Emmanuel Ceysson; Veronique Gens; Quatuor Voce
Barbara Hannigan; David Chalmin; Katia Labeque; Marielle Labeque
Ensemble Altera; Christopher Lowrey
Veronique Gens; Munchner Rundfunkorchester; Herve Niquet
Voces Intimae
Osiris Trio
Olivier Thiery & Sophie Labandibar
Kuijken String Quartet
Kuijken Quartet
Kuijken Piano Quartet
Isabelle van Keulen & Hannes Minnaar
Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble
