Clair-Obscur Saxophone Quartet
Release Date: 14 May 2021
Label: C-Avi
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260085534869
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Memorias is clair-obscur's birthday present for Astor Piazzolla, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2021. A manera de memorias is the title of Argentinean author Natalio GorÃn's anthology of interviews with Astor Piazzolla from the 1990s. That book gave the quartet the idea to record this album, which provides the listener with comprehensive insights into Piazzolla's musical environment. For the album Memorias, clair-obscur has taken Piazzolla's six most important musical models and placed their works alongside his own in six musical tableaux.
The connections can be easy to spot; at other times, they are more subtle. Invariably, however, a novel, unexpected musical context allows us to hear Piazzolla's music in a different way, with a fresh approach. Each of these musical tableaux is introduced by an original interview quote from the book A manera de memorias.
Tracklisting
Andreas Willwohl & Daniel Heide
Laurence Kilsby & Ella O'Neill
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
Kathrin Zukowski, KammerMusikKoln
Katharina Konradi, Catriona Morison, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Antje Weithaas, Denes Varjon
Premysl Vojta, Florence Millet, Ye Wu
Herbert Schuch, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Karolos
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
