Bastille Musique presents its first release »Claude Vivier: Kopernikus« in a brilliant SWR studio recording by the Opera Factory Freiburg, the Holst-Sinfonietta and Klaus Simon (conductor). Besides the CD containing Vivier’s masterful chamber opera from 1980, which he called opéra-rituel de mort, the lavish package includes a 64-pages trilingual booklet (EN, FR, DE) and three photo leaflets with previously unpublished pictures of Claude Vivier as well as the artists during a staged performance.
On peut tenter de définir la musique par des conjectures sur son origine. Les premiers sons ont-ils été émis pour des raisons pratiques de communication ou pour s'enchanter soi-même? Pour imiter le chant des oiseaux ou le grognement des bêtes? Pour calmer un enfant fiévreux ou endormir une douleur? Orphée, le mythique inventeur de la lyre, charmait les animaux, les plantes et même les pierres. La première danse est-elle née de l'impulsion produite par les premiers rythmes?
Du Moyen Âge au XXIe siècle, découvrez des siècles d'histoire et d'évolutions musicales ! …
Baptiste Romain, director of the ensemble Le Miroir de Musique, has just been appointed professor at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. To mark this occasion, he enriches the ‘Instruments’ series on the Ricercar label with a recital devoted to the medieval vielle (bowed fiddle): troubadour songs and dances and polyphonic compositions from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries illustrate the various stages in the evolution of this instrument, the ancestor of the violin.
This is the project of Frank US inspired by the passing of some great musicians from the 70's Prog rock scene (Emerson, Squire, Lake, etc.) His music is a tribute to the symphonic prog rock of the '70s with some ballad type of songs and some sophisticated songs structures taking us back to this era but with some clean modern production.