Lourié: Chamber & Instrumental Music, Vol. 1 - Works with Wind Instruments

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
January 6, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Arthur Lourie
    • PERFORMER
      Birgit Ramsl, Raphael Leone, Paolo Beltramini, Candy Grace Ho, Gottlieb Wallisch, Egidius Streiff, B
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 06, 2023
    • UPC
      5060113446527
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0652
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Sunrise

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Birgit Ramsl

    2. I. quarter note = 96

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Hansjürgen Wäldele, Nicolas Rihs, Egidius Streiff, Agnès Mauri, Mateusz Pawel Kaminski

    3. II. quarter note = 84

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Hansjürgen Wäldele, Nicolas Rihs, Egidius Streiff, Agnès Mauri, Mateusz Pawel Kaminski

    4. Regina Coeli

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Candy Grace Ho, Hansjürgen Wäldele, Simon Lilly

    5. I. Allegretto

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Birgit Ramsl, Egidius Streiff

    6. II. Adagio

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Birgit Ramsl, Egidius Streiff

    7. III. Presto

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Birgit Ramsl, Egidius Streiff

    8. I. Le sacrifice du miel

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Birgit Ramsl

    9. II. Plainte d'ariane

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Birgit Ramsl

    10. III. Labyrinthe

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Birgit Ramsl

    11. 2 Études sur un sonnet de Mallarmé: No. 1. Phrases

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Birgit Ramsl, Gottlieb Wallisch

    12. The Mime

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Paolo Beltramini

    13. The Flute of Pan

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Birgit Ramsl

    14. Funeral Games in Honor of Chronos

      Composer: Arthur Lourié

      Performer: Raphael Leone, Birgit Ramsl, Lucie Brotbek Prochaskova, Gottlieb Wallisch, Nicolas Suter


The turbulent life of Arthur Lourié (1891–1966) – student of Glazunov, friend of Blok, lover of Akhmatova, commissar of the Soviet regime, exile in Germany, France and the USA, ghost-writer for Koussevitzky – is reflected in the wide range of references in his music, from echoes of the ceremonies of ancient Greece to Neo-Baroque and Neo-Classical procedures perhaps inspired by his collaboration with Stravinsky in Paris. Some of the works in this first of two albums surveying his chamber and instrumental music have an almost ritual formality; in others a mischievous grin is not far from the surface.

REVIEWS:

The personnel is spearheaded by flautist Birgit Ramsl and they all play with commendable accomplishment and verve that serve Lourié well. There are also four premiere recordings. However you sum him up, stylistically, his remains a cultured, cultivated and agreeably cosmopolitan voice, drawing on Russian and French traditions to irradiate the ritual formality of his music.

-- MusicWeb International