Claudio Capéo Juste un Petit Gars

The decision as to where the borders of music lie can only be determined by the work of composers, who are always trying to make understandable that which is incomprehensible, to turn chaos into order, to encompass that which has no borders: an impulse of the human spirit since the beginning." (Bernd Alois Zimmermann, 1956) The present CD brings three pieces of occasional music (the miniature ballet "Un petit rien", the Music for a Puppet Theater, "Das Gelb und das Grün" [The Yellow and the Green], and the film music "Metamorphose" [Metamorphosis]) together with the composition which laid the groundwork for the "linguistic compositions" of Zimmermann's Late Period: the highly serialized cantata "Omnia tempus habent.

The title of the first volume in Bertrand Cuiller's projected series on Harmonia Mundi, François Couperin L'Alchimiste: Un petit théâtre du monde, hints at the background of these French Baroque pieces for harpsichord, which were often inspired by the colorful society surrounding the composer. Couperin's titles have always intrigued listeners with their mysterious allusions, and the teasing quality of the music often reveals a quirky sense of humor, though the titles and musical images point to a tradition that extended from Renaissance literature and the practices of the French lute school: to make a piece emblematic of some person, object, or quality by giving it a symbolic title.

Quand Goldman fait les choses, il ne les fait pas à moitié. Une fois de plus, ce coffret de 8 CDs permet de se plonger dans quelques antiques et innoubliables mélodies et de découvrir, également quelques rares perles inédites. Ajouter à ceci de beaux livrets agrémentés par des photos de Claude Gassian et l'objet (car il s'agit là d'un bel objet) en a que plus de valeur. Goldman se met en Huit, pour le bonheur des collectionneurs et surtout des oreilles.