Alexei Lubimov - Concord - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Guillaume de Machaut was born around 1300 in the environs of Reims, which at that time was a flourishing royal city with a population of almost 20,000, famous throughout Europe for it's textile workshops and trade fairs. Like most cathedrals of Western Europe, Reims is built on the site of an earlier edifice. The Rouelle altar, on the left in the nave, adjacent to the choir screen, was dedicated to the Holy Spirit. But in 1343 a magnificent statue of the Virgin Mary was placed there. In 1341 Archbishop Jean de Vienne established a plainchant Votive Mass for the Virgin, to be performed each week before the Rouelle altar. The Marian Mass was introduced by Guillaume de Machaut and his younger brother Jean as a perpetuation of the archbishop's wish, and it was for that particular liturgy, which was sung every Saturday throughout the year, that Guillaume wrote his famous polyphonic mass. The Messe de Nostre Dame, as it is called in only one of the five surviving manuscripts, is the first complete preserved polyphonic mass known to be by a single hand. It includes the five movements of the Ordinary plus the four-voice Ite missa est. The Mass is not strictly speaking a unified cycle, but there is nevertheless great coherence in it's rhythmic and harmonic languages. The succession of movements shows a broad construction and a harmonious and carefully established stylistic progression, from the Kyrie with it's strong harmonic structure to the Agnus Dei with it's melodic lyricism.

Album Tracks 1. Musique Triste, Parfois Tragique 2. Var Zur Gesundung Von Arinuschka 3. Fur Alina 4. Jaungada Muzika (Neujahrsmusik) 5. Nostalgia 6. I. Allegro Vivavce 7. II. Moderato 8. III. Allegretto 9. IV. Moderato 10. V. Allegretto 11. Pourquoi Je Suis Si Sentimental

My free life within Four WallsInch began with concert performances in 1992 and beyond, followed by a number of stage performances with dancers in Finland and Russia. The collaboration of John Cage with Merce Cunningham began in 1942; and 70 years later, in 2012, knowing my admiration for Cage and my numerous concerts with his music, the outstanding dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov proposed to embody the InchFour WallsInch in a dance on the stage of his Baryshnikov Arts Center (New York) with the participation of legendary 'Merce Cunningham Dance Company', which by this time officially completed it's activities. The director Robert Swinston and 8 dancers played with me the performance of the Four Walls / Doubletoss Interludes, and this became a worthy completion of the history of the Four Walls as a theater, while this piece remains a wonderful independent music, anticipating the style of Glass, Pärt and in general, the entire movement of minimalism. In 2015, BAC founded the Cage-Cunningham Foundation, and I received a Fellow Prize of the First-Ever Cage Cunningham Fellowship.Inch (Alexei Lubimov) Album Tracks 1. Act One 2. I 3. II 4. III 5. Dance 6. IV 7. Dance 8. V 9. VI 10. VII 11. VIII 12. Act Two 13. IX 14. X 15. XI 16. XII 17. XIII