Guillou Consort, Alessandro Perin - Jean Guillou: Souffles Heroiques, Les Grandes Transcriptions pour Choeur et Orgue (2024)
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Genre: Classical
Polyphonic vocal music, with its diversity of languages, is a particularly fertile field of experimentation for today’s composers.Jean Guillou’s work includes a variety of examples of choral writing, such as the Judith Symphonie opus 21, the oratorio Le Jugement dernier (without opus number), the Missa Interrupta opus 51, and Echo opus 60. Two other more chamber-like works are written for a small number of solo voices: Peace opus 43, for eight mixed voices and organ, and Aube opus 46, this time for twelve mixed voices and organ. In these last two works, the organ is not to be considered as an ‘accompanying’ instrument in the traditional sense, but as a character in its own right, whose confrontation with all the voices, the other protagonists, will weave a very special dramaturgy, intended for the musical translation of the poetic text that constitutes both the support and the source of inspiration.