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Divertissement! / c/o Chamber Orchestra
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Divertissement! / c/o Chamber Orchestra

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Composer
BARTOK BERNARD IBERT
Artist
C/O CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Jun 04, 2021
Catalog #
BIS-2499
UPC
7318599924991

About

The c/o chamber orchestra is a collective of thirty young musicians from a dozen different countries. Playing without a conductor, the orchestra is dedicated to that particular collaborative process which is the essence of chamber music. For their first album, the members have chosen to highlight a genre more difficult to pin-point than one might think. Its very name, divertimento, implies that it is simply a diversion, light music for entertainment – but many of the best-known examples of the form transcend that definition. And as many composers have learned, even light-hearted music should be taken seriously: humor requires a master’s touch. The four works recorded here offer different perspectives on the genre, starting with Ibert’s seven-movement suite in which the composer constantly plays with the listener’s expectations. Some forty years before Ibert, his compatriot Émile Bernard composed a very different Divertissement. It is scored for double wind quintet, reminiscent of Mozart’s divertimenti and serenades for winds. But even though the music is melodious and carefree, the debt owed by Bernard to the German romantic composers is never far from the surface. A very special case is Bartók’s Divertimento for strings, composed just before the outbreak of World War II. The closing work on the album reunites the winds and strings of the c/o orchestra in a work written especially for this project by the American composer Michael Ippolito, who in his Divertimento pays full tribute to the contrast-rich nature of the genre.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Introduction 01:11
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Introduction
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Jacques Ibert
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  2. 2 No. 2. Cortège 04:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Cortège
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    Jacques Ibert
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  3. 3 No. 3. Nocturne 02:39
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Nocturne
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Jacques Ibert
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  4. 4 No. 4. Valse 03:04
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Valse
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Jacques Ibert
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  5. 5 No. 5. Parade 01:43
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Parade
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Jacques Ibert
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  6. 6 No. 6. Finale 01:54
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Finale
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Jacques Ibert
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  7. 7 I. Andante sostenuto - Allegro molto moderato 06:56
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Andante sostenuto - Allegro molto moderato
    Duration
    06:56
    Composer
    Émile Bernard
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  8. 8 II. Allegro vivace 04:44
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    04:44
    Composer
    Émile Bernard
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  9. 9 III. Andante - Allegro non troppo 09:10
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Andante - Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    09:10
    Composer
    Émile Bernard
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  10. 10 I. Allegro non troppo 08:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    08:28
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  11. 11 II. Molto adagio 07:40
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Molto adagio
    Duration
    07:40
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  12. 12 III. Allegro assai 07:00
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Allegro assai
    Duration
    07:00
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  13. 13 I. Con moto 04:48
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Con moto
    Duration
    04:48
    Composer
    Michael Ippolito
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  14. 14 II. Aria burlesca 05:16
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Aria burlesca
    Duration
    05:16
    Composer
    Michael Ippolito
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  15. 15 III. Menuetto: Allegro maestoso 03:37
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Menuetto: Allegro maestoso
    Duration
    03:37
    Composer
    Michael Ippolito
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra
  16. 16 IV. Adagio - Allegro 04:32
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Adagio - Allegro
    Duration
    04:32
    Composer
    Michael Ippolito
    Ensemble
    C/O Chamber Orchestra