Philippe Manoury: Le Temps, Mode D’Emploi

Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher are ideal interpreters and appear to be immersed in the music, not to mention possessed of infinite virtuosity. If Stockhausen’s Mantra and late Boulez (Répons,... — International Piano, September 2019 More…

Release Date: 27th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: NEOS11802
Label: Neos

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Manoury: Le Temps, Mode D’Emploi

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
SWR Experimental Studio

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<p>Philippe Manoury is one of the most important French composers working today and is a pioneer in combining music with live electronics. <p>With Le temps, mode d'emploi (Time a User's Guide) he created an evening-length work about the phenomenon of time and various possibilities for sculpting and experiencing it. Two real pianos positioned in the middle of the hall are surrounded by four virtual pianos that sound from loudspeakers. <p>This highly complex work is dedicated to the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, who premiered it in 2014 in Witten, Germany in cooperation with the SWR Experimentalstudio and have worked again with them here to produce the studio recording for this CD.

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September 2019

Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher are ideal interpreters and appear to be immersed in the music, not to mention possessed of infinite virtuosity. If Stockhausen’s Mantra and late Boulez (Répons, Sur incises) are part of the journey to Manoury, he carves his own way, exploratory in temporal, gestural and sonic domains with plateaux of beauty and complexity. Not for the faint-hearted, but fascinating and massively rewarding.

1st December 2019

This is the first recording of a 58-minute score for two pianos and live electronics — an exhilarating study in the transformation of sonority.

Philippe Manoury: Le Temps, Mode D’Emploi

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