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Stravinsky (Music City - January 12, 2010) Michel Portal

Igor Stravinsky - Octet

The book quotes from article written by Stravinsky in 1924: My

Octet is a musical object. [...] My Octet is not a work using "emotion", but a musical composition based on musical elements that are sufficient unto themselves.

The gentle humor is it an emotion, or a musical instrument? It abounds in this room varying atmospheres, debonair walking, circus fanfare liveliness to quiet, impromptu dialogues, such as improvised, all this bright and charming, of course impeccably interpreted by the CIS led by Mälkki.

Enno Poppe - Markt

A CIS enlisted the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra. At the first listening Poppe, I had identified as forward composer. But I'm pretty disappointed, I think. In this piece, I like the concept, zoom in three stages in a relational structure that appears chaotic at first glance (chopped bits of musical cells and fragmented), then where are distinguished from reports and guidelines (the most interesting part, between mysteries and clear explanations), then when everything becomes understandable. This last part, the longest, unfortunately becomes boring quickly, with a melody endlessly repeated pulpit lectern, and percussion in the background blurring the tempo and attacking the orchestra without originality. A big bof.

Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

Susanna Mälkki very familiar with the boundaries of the Great Hall of the City of Music, which enables it to contain just right the potential destructive power of the orchestra spread before her, that taking the scene is not willing to level with the public. She also maintains an outfit perfect rhythm. The enthusiasm of young musicians mentored by veterans of the CIS does the rest: an interpretation full of energy but not too much, which sparkles with detail, without ever the general line is forgotten, and that flows from a source across.

Elsewhere: ConcertoNet
Spotify: Esa-Pekka Salonen - Stravinsky: Pulcinella; Ragtime; Fox; Octet (for the Rite, you already know, I put the link to a reconstruction of the evening Creation )