Georges Aperghis - Avis de tempête (2005)
Georges Aperghis - Avis de tempête
EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | Cover | 59:07 | 217 MB
21st Century Classical - Contemporary 'opera' | 2005 | Cypres
EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | Cover | 59:07 | 217 MB
21st Century Classical - Contemporary 'opera' | 2005 | Cypres
Georges Aperghis and Peter Szendy, libretto
Donatienne Michel-Dansac, soprano
Johanne Saunier, actress and dancer
Lionel Peintre, baritone
Romain Bischoff, baritone
Ictus Ensemble - Georges-Elie Octors, conductor
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01/13. avis 01 to avis 13 [59:07]
Georges Aperghis' Avis de Tempête was first performed at the Lille Opera in November 2004, and revived in June 2005 for the opening of IRCAM’s celebrated Agora festival in Paris.
Born in Athens in 1945, Aperghis settled in France in 1963. From the 1970s he developed a highly personal style of composition, on the fringes of mainstream currents in contemporary music. He turned towards a theatricality of sound, with a dynamic approach to both text and music, using video at a very early stage as well as technological innovation, and in this way he produced works that filled a gap between theatre, opera and music.
Before composing a single note of "Avis de Tempête" (Storm Warning), Aperghis had given all his collaborators the watchword to create an "opera that IS a storm". The librettist Peter Szendy constructed a 'whale-text', i.e. an uninterrupted flow of text fragments, words, loops, repetitions, syllables gleaned from the works of Kafka, Baudelaire, Hugo and Shakespeare, and structured around two stories by Herman Melville, "The Lightning-Rod Man" and the famous "Moby Dick". With Aperghis, however, the text is not set to music, it IS the music; the words are there to intensify the musical intoxication and they sometimes lose their meaning to the point of becoming mere sounds. The singers and reciters accomplish a veritable feat of prowess, surrounded not only by ten fabulous instrumentalists, but also by a world of fascinating electronic effects that "are there to destabilise the ensemble but also to sweep it away as a real storm would". This aural hurricane is backed up by some spectacular studio work on sound.
The result: music that is profuse, vigorous, organic. "Avis de Tempête" is an opera that does not tell a story with events and characters: it is a mechanism for creating an inner storm, with its devastating gusts of wind and its depressions, an incredible storm in a skull. Ictus is the ideal musical crew for staying in command of this storm, described by the press as "a total art work".
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