Michael JARRELL (b.1958): Paysages avec figures absentes — Nachlese IV, for violin and orchestra (2009), (Ilya Gringolts violin). Sechs Augenblicke for orchestra (2022), 8 ...un long fracas somptueux de rapide céleste... for percussion and orchestra (1998). Florent Jodelet percussion; Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire; Pascal Rophé conductor. 19.99

Catalogue Number: 1Z029

Label: BIS

Reference: BIS-2672

Format: CD

Price: $19.98

Description: 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.

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