Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, Luna Pearl Woolf
Performer: Collectif9
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA858
Release: 2022
Size: 1.91 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Debussy: Études pour piano: No. 4 ‘Pour les sixtes’
02. Debussy: Des pas sur le neige (from Préludes – Book 1)
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque
03. IV. Passepied
04. Debussy: Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune
05. Woolf: Contact
Debussy: La Merr (Arr. for Ensemble by Thibault Bertin-Maghit)
06. I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer
07. II. Jeux de vagues
08. III. Dialogue du vent et de la me
Collectif9, well-known for its innovative programming and its unique arrangements of the classical repertory, here tackles the music of Debussy, following a first recording devoted to Mahler (ALPHA770). With Clair de lune, La Mer and Des pas sur la neige, the Montreal collective invites us into a sumptuous theatre of shadows and waves: ‘Could we, as nine string players, perform Claude Debussy’s La Mer and do it justice? In a musical style where timbre and colour are paramount, attempting to interpret this emblematic work seemed outrageous; but come to think of it, we like a challenge. This is certainly a reinterpretation. Being fewer in number allows us to otherwise reveal a rich rhythmic interplay already present in the work while shedding new light on the balance of voices and harmonies.’ A work by composer Luna Pearl Woolf completes the programme: Contact, ‘a sonic view into the underwater world of beluga whales in the St Lawrence Estuary’.