VALÉRY AUBERTIN (b.1970): 2ème Livre d'orgue, 7 excerpts from Le Livre ouvert, Op. 6.

Catalogue Number: 07J137

Label: Triton

Reference: TRI 331151

Format: CD

Price: $35.98

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Description: On the strength of this collection one is left in little doubt that Aubertin is well on his way to being a major contributor to the organ repertoire of our time. Inevitably, one cannot avoid the name of Messiaen, and there is, of course, a direct comparison to be made; also with Jacques Charpentier, with whom he studied. An organist himself, Aubertin clearly draws on his experience of the coloristic and textural possibilities of the instrument, as Messiaen did, in his heightened sense of harmonic color - mildly dissonant yet with an underlying sense of tonal harmony, less often used functionally than to provide structure to an otherwise broadly atonal idiom, much as the relationships between colors will provide shape and form to an abstract, nonrepresentational painting, as random splashes of unrelated colors would not. Aubertin is less concerned with rhythmic formality and structural devices that became academic serialism in later hands than Messiaen was; his use of polyrhythm is more free, and the incorporation of Baroque forms, such as the passacaglia in the First Sonata, hints at a more polyglot, post-modern æsthetic. The sonatas that make up the 2nd Livre d'orgue are more spare in texture, less harmonically complex for the most part than the works that make up part of the current form of the projected Livre ouvert, and hint at earlier, pre-romantic models and a greater asceticism, though always within a clearly recognisable and individual style within which the composer is clearly capable of a wide range of instantly communicative expression. 2 CDs. Marie-Ange Leurent, Eric Lebrun, Michel Bourcier, Pierre Farago, Valéry Aubertin (Cavaillé-Coll organ of Saint-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts, Paris).

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