La Tempete/Bestion,S.-P. - Nocturne - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

L'Ensemble La Tempesta - Musica Claromontana 29 [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/25/2008

J. S. Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in D minor is the centrepiece of this programme 'This music seems absolutely modern to me a continuous, endlessly developing thread, giving it an almost hypnotic aspect... These adjectives also belong to the vocabulary of today's music, whether it is InchpopularInch, as in techno, or Inchart musicInch, as in the so-called repetitive or minimalist movement', says Simon-Pierre Bestion. Two hundred and thirty years after Bach, Górecki wrote a harpsichord concerto in the same key, using it 'as a very rhythmic and extremely stealthy instrument'. John Adams, a leading figure of the American minimalist movement, composed Shaker Loops in 1978 'This masterpiece takes on a special interest because we play on instruments with gut strings. That gives the music a very special texture.' Bach's Passacaglia ('a single musical theme heard forty-one times') and Jehan Alain's Litanies complete this programme, which brings together the Bestion brothers, with Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas as soloist in the concertos.

With VIA, the third album by the chamber jazz trio Storms/Nocturnes, British saxophone legend Tim Garland, world leading vibraphone virtuoso Joe Locke and recent Grammy nominee, pianist Geoffrey Keezer, create a unique three-way dialogue of captivating, immersive music. Bringing their different styles and backgrounds together, they create music which can be spacious or immensely complex, delicate but often approaching orchestral depth, and collectively find their way into a new mood or feel before the listener knows they have left the old one. Their spontaneous interaction, the dovetailing, the assertion of contrasting yet mutually supportive roles are all taken to a new level on this recording. This enduring international alliance of Jazz giants is celebrating it's tenth anniversary with this album and concerts throughout Europe and the U.S. InchThis trio truly sizzles with virtuosity and creativity. Tim, Geoffrey and Joe make an amazing trioInch - Chick Corea.