Musica Perduta - Oratory of Stphilip Blacks - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mike Richmond - On the Edge [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/01/1994

The title of the fifth of the pieces by Vittorio Montalti (Rome 1984) featured on this refers, as we will see, to a book by Georges Perec; it is dated 2013 and is therefore from the same year as his first theatrical work, performed at the Biennale Musica di Venezia, L'arte e la maniera di af-frontare il proprio capo per chiedergli un aumento. The long title corresponds literally to the French title of a book by Perec from 1968, which was published posthumously. The titles of the four instrumental works recorded on this album all contain an extramusical reference, whose connotations are nevertheless always expressed in abstract terms, not descriptive. At the centre of the we find a piece for solo voice, Bestiaire Remix from 2014, which is a re-elaboration of two previous works, Bestiaire and Bestiaire II in which some texts from a collection of poems by Apollinaire, illustrated by Raoul Dufy (1910), have been fragmented by Inchbreaking up the words and syllablesInch (one of the procedures typical of Montalti's anti-naturalist research on vocality). InchIn Bestiaire Remix - the composer comments - I cut out some passages from the pre-existing texts and reassembled them almost like a movie director might do. My idea is to be able to rebuild a unity starting from the fragment and linking elements that are totally heterogeneousInch

After listening to a substantial number of operas, cantatas, concertos, and chamber music left by the immensely prolific Georg Philipp Telemann, one might assume there would soon be nothing new to discover. This is far from the truth, as demonstrated by the latest production from Camerata Koln and it's director, Michael Schneider. The InchSix Quatuors ou Trios 1733Inch are not merely a continuation of Telemann's Concerti da camera. They differ significantly polyphonic, chromatic quirks, delicate cantilenas, highly virtuosic (and expertly executed) miniatures, and finally, a series of ancient women's portraits in the contemporary colors of the InchGetreue Music-MeisterInch - if anything is repeated here, it is the amazement at an almost limitless, inexhaustible imagination.