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New York
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
Intégrales proves an energetic opener for this survey of the city from the eminent, Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain, lucidly conducted by their music director, Matthias Pintscher. Likewise...
New York
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher
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Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
Intégrales proves an energetic opener for this survey of the city from the eminent, Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain, lucidly conducted by their music director, Matthias Pintscher. Likewise...
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Here is the third release in the collaboration between the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Alpha.
This time the musicians of the ensemble and their conductor Matthias Pintscher focus on American music: Intégrales by Edgar Varèse (1924), Music for Wind Instruments by John Cage (1938), Instruments I for six instruments by Morton Feldman (1974), Elliott Carter’s Concerto for clarinet and ensemble (1996), Steve Reich’s WTC 9/11 for string quartet (2009-10), Sean Shepherd’s Blur (2011), and David Fulmer’s Within his bending sickle’s compass come for solo horn and ensemble (2014-15). More than ninety years of creativity and musical profusion at the heart of the global city that the Ensemble Intercontemporain celebrates today.
This double album is released to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the EIC: forty years of discoveries and of promotion of contemporary music at the highest level of performance.
Contents and tracklist
- Matthias Pintscher, Ensemble Intercontemporain
- Recorded: 12-13 February 2015
- Recording Venue: Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris, France
- Matthias Pintscher, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Jérôme Comte
- Recorded: 19 September 2016
- Recording Venue: Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris, France
- Matthias Pintscher, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Jens Macmanama
- Recorded: 22 April 2015
- Recording Venue: Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris, France
- Matthias Pintscher, Ensemble Intercontemporain
- Recorded: 30 September 2016
- Recording Venue: Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris, France
- Eric-Maria Couturier, Matthias Pintscher, Grégoire Simon, Diego Tosi, Jeanne-Marie Conquer, Ensemble Intercontemporain
- Recorded: 13 November 2014
- Recording Venue: Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris, France
- Jens McManama, Matthias Pintscher, Paul Riveaux, Didier Pateau, Jérôme Comte, Sophie Cherrier, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Didier Pateaux
- Victor Hanna, Sébastien Vichard, Matthias Pintscher, Samuel Favre, Benny Sluchin, Emmanuelle Ophele, Didier Pateau, Ensemble Intercontemporain
Awards and reviews
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The Times Records of the Year2017
August 2017
Intégrales proves an energetic opener for this survey of the city from the eminent, Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain, lucidly conducted by their music director, Matthias Pintscher. Likewise a shoo-in is the mischievous sparkle of NY native, Elliott Carter, whose Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra is dispatched with virtuoso ease by soloist Jérôme Comte.
3rd April 2017
The first item on this two-CD evocation of New York’s creative spirit, Varèse’s Intégrales for 11 winds and four percussion, is the eternal standout. There’s nothing quite like its iconoclastic, self-determining vigour: a new world in 11 minutes.
14th April 2017
What does New York sound like? This double-disc collection charts the city’s past century of modern classical music...the performances [Pintscher] gets from [Ensemble Intercontemporain] here are virtuosic, rich, detailed and fairly sober.
