3701624511138

Montalbetti: Orchestral Pictures

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Jonathan Nott; Gurzenich Orchester Koln; Duncan Ward; Orchestre Phi

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Format: CD

Cat No: ALPHA1113

Release Date:  10 January 2025

Label:  Outhere / Alpha

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  3701624511138

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  Montalbetti

  • Description

    By 2014 Eric Montalbetti had amassed 20 years of experience as Artistic Director of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, all the while he had also been composing, something he had been engaged in since childhood: an activity he did not publicly reveal until 2015. Conscious of the heritage of Debussy and Messiaen ('my very first heroes') as well as skilled in the serialism of Boulez - whose teaching courses he attended at the College de France - and fascinated by the sonic nuances of spectral music, Eric Montalbetti seeks a point of convergence, a possible synthesis enabling him to blend modality and serialism, without rejecting the harmonic contours of composers such as Murail. This new album dedicated to Montalbetti's work includes a Flute Concerto, whose commission was encouraged by Emmanuel Pahud: its telling title is Memento vivere (Remember that you must live).