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Leroux: Nous / Claude Delangle, Odile Catelin-Delangle

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Composer
LEROUX, PHILIPPE
Artist
C. Delangle, O. Delangle
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Jan 01, 2021
Catalog #
BIS-2490
UPC
7318599924908

About

The collaboration between composer Philippe Leroux and the husband-and-wife team of Claude and Odile Delangle began in the early 1990s and has grown ever closer over the years. In October 2019 the three met up again for a few intense days, in order to record Noûs, a programme of works for soprano saxophone and for solo piano. The album is bookended by two duos for the instruments – the opening SPP a reworking by the composer of an earlier score, and the closing Noûs that Leroux wrote for the Delangles only a few months before the recording. In both of these – albeit in different ways – the composer explores a couple of his favorite principles, namely those of continuity and transformation. Between them we hear works from the past decade, beginning with AMA for solo piano, from 2009. The other two piano works, Répéter… Opposer and Dense… Englouti are both tributes to Claude Debussy, a composer who occupies an important place in the musical universe of Philippe Leroux. At the centre of the disc, finally, is the highly virtuosic Conca Reatina for soprano saxophone. Loosely inspired by the contours of the mountains surrounding the Rieti Valley (Conca reatina), the piece is a dizzying sonic Möbius strip which keeps returning the listener to his point of departure.

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 SPP 11:52
    Track
    1
    Title
    SPP
    Duration
    11:52
    Composer
    Philippe Leroux
    Performer
    Claude Delangle, Odile Catelin-Delangle
  2. 2 I. — 07:09
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    07:09
    Composer
    Philippe Leroux
    Performer
    Odile Catelin-Delangle
  3. 3 II. — 08:32
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. —
    Duration
    08:32
    Composer
    Philippe Leroux
    Performer
    Odile Catelin-Delangle
  4. 4 Conca Reatina - Ruban de Möbius 14:14
    Track
    4
    Title
    Conca Reatina - Ruban de Möbius
    Duration
    14:14
    Composer
    Philippe Leroux
    Performer
    Claude Delangle
  5. 5 Répéter … Opposer 06:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    Répéter … Opposer
    Duration
    06:26
    Composer
    Philippe Leroux
    Performer
    Odile Catelin-Delangle
  6. 6 Dense … Englouti 06:18
    Track
    6
    Title
    Dense … Englouti
    Duration
    06:18
    Composer
    Philippe Leroux
    Performer
    Odile Catelin-Delangle
  7. 7 Noûs 09:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    Noûs
    Duration
    09:20
    Composer
    Philippe Leroux
    Performer
    Claude Delangle, Odile Catelin-Delangle