Composer: Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno, Morton Feldman, Bruno Letort, Arvo Pärt, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Performer: François Mardirossian, Thibaut Crassin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Soond
Catalogue: SND22029
Release: 2023
Size: 194 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Sakamoto: A Hearty Breakfast
02. Pärt: Pari intervallo
03. Sakamoto: Batavia
04. Letort: Pianisphère 1st Movement (À Melaine Dalibert)
05. Letort: Pianisphère 2nd Movement (À Brigitte Isaac)
06. Letort: Pianisphère 3rd Movement (À Denis Bosse)
07. Letort: Pianisphère 4th Movement (À François Mardirossian)
08. Sakamoto: A Brief Encounter
09. Eno: By This River
10. Feldman: Two Pianos
11. Sakamoto: Before the War
12. Bryars: My First Homage
It is with a first volume that SoOnd explores the pianistic territories without aesthetic dogma. From Brian Eno to Arvo Pärt, from Ryuichi Sakamoto to Bruno Letort, this recording opens like a window on a new sonic planisphere of today’s repertoire for two pianos. Pianists François Mardirossian and Thibaut Crassin have always been in love with the music of their time, interpreting in duo or solo unbridled repertoires made of the compositional inventions of Luc Ferrari, Philip Glass, Moondog, Alan Hovhaness, Frederic Lagnau or Federico Mompou. For this first recording, the two musicians dexterously combine textures that surprise the listener from the first sounds, playing with the repertoire like a trompe-l’oeil. Minimalist? Conceptual? Tonal? Experimental? Modernist? François Mardirossian and Thibaut Crassin answer these questions by questioning the original construction of a new repertoire, in which the ear is carried away and lost in new planispheres.