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Ravel - l'exotique

Ensemble Musica Nigella


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From neighbouring Spain to the Orient, passing by eastern lands, the second big wave of exoticism which reached its summit between the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, unquestionably stimulated by numerous universal exhibitions organised in Europe, greatly influenced the writing of occidental composers in search of a new language, including many french composers, thirsty for new sonorities and looking to leave the academism of the past behind them. For Maurice Ravel who, excepting his one and only tour to the United States, had never undertaken a long journey to a far-away country, preferring to stay at home surrounded by small trinkets, most of which only held any value for their owner, finding inspiration in music from other countries or in literature which evoked unknown lands in a new aesthetic was not only a way of escaping the real world but also of creating his own universe, inhabited by imaginary characters where the "swiss clockmaker" could control everything, as he did with the cut-out stars in the shutters at his house in Monfort-L'Amaury which served to recreate a starlit night when the master, a victim of insomnia, managed to catch a few minutes of sleep in the middle of the day…

 

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Shéhérazade

Introduction et allegro

Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé

Tzigane, Rapsodie de concert

Rapsodie espagnole

 

Ensemble Musica Nigella

Takénori Némoto, conductor and transcription

Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano

Pablo Schatzman, violin

Iris Torossian, harp

 

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