Thierry Pécou: Tremendum

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Pecou's works combine driving rhythms and imaginative textures with strong Latin American influences. This engrossing selection, especially his Tremendum, conveys his exuberant writing. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Jul 2012
Catalogue No: HMC905269
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 73 minutes

Pécou: Tremendum (2005-2010) Concerto-carnaval pour piano, flûte, saxophone, violoncelle et 5 percussions

Work length22:30

Album only

Pécou: Soleil-Tigre (2009) pour violoncelle et piano

Work length12:25

$1.40

$1.75

Pécou: Manoa (2005) pour flûte basse, clarinette basse et violoncelle

Work length10:06

$1.40

$1.75

Pécou: L'Arbre aux fleurs (2010) pour 5 percussions: I. Perles de jade

Work length8:57

$1.20

$1.50

Pécou: L'Arbre aux fleurs (2010) pour 5 percussions: II. Tambour fleuri

Work length8:50

$1.20

$1.50

Thierry Pécou, Guillermo Diego: Paseo de la Reforma (1995-2011) pour flûte, saxophone, violoncelle, marimba et piano

Work length7:08

$1.20

$1.50

Pécou: Danzón (1998) pour flûte solo

Work length3:09

$1.00

$1.25

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This CD is the third harmonia mundi recording of music by Thierry Pécou, whose acclaimed 'Symphonie du Jaguar' won a Diapason d'Or in 2010. This composer of Caribbean descent has consistently extended his sources of inspiration to Latin America and notably in the direction of Mexico, of which we hear echoes in 'L'Arbre aux fleurs' and 'Soleil-Tigre'.

But it is Brazil that lies at the origin of the 'carnival' concerto 'Tremendum', the main work in the programme, presented here in a new version specially made by Pécou for Les Percussions Claviers de Lyon.

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October 2012

Pecou's works combine driving rhythms and imaginative textures with strong Latin American influences. This engrossing selection, especially his Tremendum, conveys his exuberant writing.

November 2012

One element of his music-making that underlines the affinity is a freshness, an aversion to rules – on the strength of the works here he shares something of the if-it’s-fun-I’ll-include-it attitude of the more orthodox composers like Villa-Lobos and Chavez

29th July 2012

Pécou’s music is founded on a few well-defined principles. It is pulse-based. It is unashamed about dwelling on simple melodic cells. It grows through repetition and contrast, rather than metamorphosis. And it passionately and infectiously embraces the musics of South and Central America.

28th July 2012

French-Caribbean composer Thierry Pécou draws on both the musical stylings and the myths of South American culture in these works..his percussion interplay driving along...with an insistence that recalls not just Reich and Glass, but also the batucada percussion ensembles of Brazilian carnivals. Absorbing.

27th October 2012

Pécou delights in music which is jagged, ritualistic – he dreams of “making the whole world resonate.” And this encapsulates exactly what’s so startling about several of the pieces collected on this second Harmonia Mundi anthology – they don’t sound composed at all, more like field recordings collected by an intrepid ethnomusicologist.

Thierry Pécou: Tremendum

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