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BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH - Terrain Graeme Jennings violin / Carl Rosman clarinet / ELISION Ensemble Geoffrey Morris guitar / Ken Murray guitar / Erkki Veltheim viola Franck Ollu conductor / Jean Deroyer conductor Includes booklet with text by Richard Toop 0013072KAI - 2010 tracklisting: (01) Terrain (1992) 14:12 for solo violin and ensemble (02) no time (at all) (2004) 7:25 for guitar duo (03) La Chute d'Icare (1988) 9:37 for solo clarinet and ensemble (04) Incipits (1996) 18:03 for solo viola and ensemble (04) Les Froissements d'Ailes de Gabriel (2003) 17:47 for solo guitar and ensemble TT: 60:09 Terrain. Of all these pieces – none of which places anything less than cruel demands on the soloists – Terrain is the most wildly virtuosic. Here, Paganini has to rise from the grave, reincarnated (initially via Irvine Arditti) as a transcendental modernist. From the very first bar, the violin part is electrifying, both in its difficulty and its intensity. At the same time, it is set against an ensemble which, far from offering support, is its very antithesis. The latter consists of the eight instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone and double bass) of Edgard Varèse’s Octandre, which Ferneyhough cites as ensuring that “composing became my definitive goal in life”. (Richard Toop) Terrain. Von all diesen Stücken - welche allesamt harte Ansprüche an den Solisten stellen - verlangt Terrain die unbändigste Virtuosität. Hier muss Paganini ins Leben zurückkehren, wiedergeboren (ursprünglich via Irvine Arditti) als transzendentaler Modernist. Vom allerersten Takt an ist der Violinteil in seiner Schwierigkeit und Intensität elektrisierend. Gleichzeitig sieht er sich einem Ensemble gegenüber, welches, statt unterstützend zu wirkend, seine Antithese verkörpert. Letzteres besteht aus den acht Instrumenten von Edgar Varèses Octandre (Querflöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott, Horn, Trompete, Posaune und Kontrabass) welches, so Ferneyhough, sicherstellte, dass „Komponieren mein definitves Ziel im Leben“ wurde. (Richard Toop) |