John Adams - Chamber Symphony
I do not always the first movement "Mongrel Airs", with its binary rhythm hammered, lines scrambled, his synthesizer sounds too forward (but why put so much attention to information the least musical? it is not so marked on CD!), and always as the second movement, "Aria With Walking Bass, rhythm kindly natured double bass and bassoon, dialogues with the strings and winds, small acid points. Before the CIS (where Eric-Maria Couturier has been replaced by a beautiful cellist not mentioned in the booklet - I finally find his name on Gaze James : Yska Benzakoun), François-Xavier Roth waddles across body, carried away by the speeds superimposed.Ben Hackbarth - Crumbling Walls and Wandering Rocks
After the usual ballet technicians (they are a half on stage!) That move all the chairs and add microphones everywhere, this piece, inspired by Joyce's Ulysses, begins The impact of rocky, deep, spatially, rather well. Things go wrong with the debut of the strings, which have nothing to say, but do so at great length. "Subtle changes of timbre and gesture," says the booklet. Too subtle for me. Trouble deeper and deeper. Some boos. I just do not applaud.Steve Reich - Tehillim
"The most beautiful work of Reich," says my neighbor at the end, and this may be true. In any case, this interpretation was a delight. Perfect balance between instruments and voices amplified, probably because the Synergy Vocals are specialists in this directory and work at the microphone: these four female voices create wonderful harmonies. There is a wind that carries us in one go from one movement to another, bright (ah this entry in which the hands slamming invite us to dance, and the arrival of the votes in canon and bass for suddenly give a depth and thickness; simple but effective unstoppable), bright (no guns, just melodic lines exposed to winds and voice), slow (what a beauty that this movement, watch tinkling, carefully crafted orchestral colors!), then bright again, a clear complexity, in a dazzling kaleidoscopic shimmer.
Spotify: John Adams - Chamber Symphony / Grand Pianola Music , Steve Reich - Tehillim / Three Movements
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