Tristan Murail: Le partage des eaux, Contes cruels & Sillages

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These three works superbly realised under the nuanced direction of Pierre-Andre Valade, provide…a fine introduction for those unfamiliar with Murail's music…the closest [Le partage des eaux]... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Release Date: 18th May 2015
Catalogue No: AECD1222
Label: Aeon
Length: 61 minutes

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Murail: Le Partage des eaux

Work length22:14

Album only

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre-André Valade
Recorded: 5 December 2012
Recording Venue: Maida Vale Studio 1, BBC, London

Murail: Contes cruels

Work length20:28

Album only

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre-André Valade, Wiek Hijmans, Seth Josel
Recorded: 15-19 June 2010
Recording Venue: Muziekcentrum van de Omroep, Hilversum

Murail: Sillages

Work length18:19

Album only

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre-André Valade
Recorded: 15-19 June 2010
Recording Venue: Muziekcentrum van de Omroep, Hilversum

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With this second monograph in the catalogue, æon confirms its attachment to one of the principal representatives of spectral music in France and abroad. Tristan Murail, a major composer and former student of Messiaen’s who early on freed himself from serialism,

explores the whole sound spectrum, which he recomposes using the new technologies.

Blending both Nature as a source of inspiration and the tools of computer analysis as compositional means, the composer lies within the great French tradition of naturalist music going back to the 18th century. A way of returning to the natural model.

The works for large orchestra brought together in this recording present an extensive panorama of the composer’s output between 1985 and 2007, haunted by his futuristic visions and dreamlike elsewheres.

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September 2015

These three works superbly realised under the nuanced direction of Pierre-Andre Valade, provide…a fine introduction for those unfamiliar with Murail's music…the closest [Le partage des eaux] comes to being melodic is with what sounds like a diffuse memory of a Messiaen chorale, yet it is continually mesmerising.

August 2015

It is no exaggeration to say that [Le partage des eaux] does for oceans what Strauss's Alpine Symphony does for mountains…[it is a] compelling reason for acquiring this disc

28th May 2015

Three orchestral works composed in successive decades, all of them recorded for the very first time in wonderfully diligent performances under Pierre-André Valade, provide a good introduction to Tristan Murail’s sound world.

Tristan Murail: Le partage des eaux, Contes cruels & Sillages

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