Hersant: Music for Bassoon

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Release Date: 24th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: 95211
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 61 minutes

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Hersant: 8 Duos for Viola and Bassoon

Work length12:35

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Andrea Bressan, Mario Paladin

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Track length2:36

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II. —

Track length1:06

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III. —

Track length1:35

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IV. —

Track length0:43

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V. —

Track length3:36

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VI. —

Track length0:57

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VII. —

Track length1:07

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VIII. —

Track length0:55

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Hersant: Hopi

Work length8:03

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Andrea Bressan

Hersant: 8 Pieces for Bassoon and Instrumental Ensemble

Work length19:50

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Andrea Bressan
Ex Novo Ensemble

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Track length2:48

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II. —

Track length2:12

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Track length1:22

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IV. —

Track length3:45

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V. —

Track length1:17

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VI. —

Track length1:34

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VII. —

Track length2:20

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VIII. —

Track length4:32

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Hersant: Duo Sephardim

Work length7:36

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Andrea Bressan, Mario Paladin

Hersant: Niggun

Work length6:21

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Andrea Bressan

Hersant: Wanderung

Work length7:18

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Andrea Bressan
Schola San Rocco Chorus

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Composing these eight duos for viola and bassoon, eight further pieces for bassoon and ensemble and then independent works for the instrument either solo or with viola and female choir (conjuring unlikely correspondences with both Vaughan Williams and Morton Feldman), Philippe Hersant (b.1948) worked closely with Pascal Gallois, the virtuoso bassoonist who was principal of the Ensemble Inter-contemporain in Paris in the 1980s and 90s.

Gallois’s virtuosity and adventurousness allowed Hersant to explore many new techniques and timbres for the instrument such as particular glissandi and overtone harmonics, but the influence of Messiaen may still be heard not only in the use of folk melodies (Hebrew, Mongolian and American-Indian) which pervade several works, as a kind of found music which is a counterpart to Messiaen’s birds, but in the often open and radiant harmony which characterises Hersant’s music whether for solo instruments such as cello or piano, or in larger-scale works for choir and orchestra.

The Eight Pieces with ensemble form a kind of concerto, or as Hersant describes it, a sequence of paintings, brief and deliberately underdeveloped. The bassoon sometimes melts into the instrumental ensemble (comprising a clarinet, a trombone, a violin, a viola, a cello, a double bass and a piano), whilst in other pieces the soloist role clearly prevails. In the Eight Duos, the popular side of Janacek and Stravinsky may be discerned. Hersant is a craftsman of his art, often working in time-honoured forms of dance, canon and songs without words. This is the most extensive collection of his music for bassoon on record.

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