Eric Montalbetti: Chamber Music: Harmonieuses Dissonances

The stage seems set for a demonstration of unashamed eclecticism. The four works included here provide challenging workouts for some first-class performers, led by Christian Tetzlaff…[In Hommage... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…

Release Date: 24th Apr 2020
Catalogue No: ALPHA583
Label: Alpha
Length: 71 minutes

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Montalbetti: Duo pour violon & piano 'Lied des Dankes für das Leben in Freundschaft'

18:35

Alexander Vorontsov, Christian Tetzlaff

Montalbetti: Hommage à Matisse

15:38

Pierre Génisson, Delphine Haidan

I. Nu

3:00

II. Éclat

5:26

III. Couleur

7:12

Montalbetti: Piano Trio

12:54

Hidéki Nagano, Eric-Maria Couturier, Hae Sun Kang

I. Composition suprématiste

4:29

II. Formes circulaires

5:05

III. Formes uniques de la continuité dans l'espace

3:20

Montalbetti: String Quartet 'Harmonieuses dissonances'

24:17

Quatuor Les Dissonances

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Harmonieuses Dissonances: that is the title of the string quartet that closes this second album of music by Eric Montalbetti, but above all it is a statement of the very subject of the works assembled here: they start out from heterogeneous elements, like the diversity of the people we know, or of our moods and thoughts, and aim – through encounters, comparisons, organisation or a search for common ground – to find the meaning of a life that we hope will, in the end, be harmonious. Since the first album of his music, Solos, appeared in 2016, Eric Montalbetti has been fortunate enough to hear seventeen of his scores come to life thanks to some wonderful musicians in France, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Japan and Korea. Two duos (including a Hommage à Matisse), a piano trio and a string quartet, were premiered and have now been recorded by Christian Tetzlaff and Alexandre Vorontsov, Delphine Haidan and Pierre Génisson, the soloists of the Ensemble intercontemporain and the Quatuor Les Dissonances.

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July 2020

The stage seems set for a demonstration of unashamed eclecticism. The four works included here provide challenging workouts for some first-class performers, led by Christian Tetzlaff…[In Hommage à Matisse] Montalbetti shows just how successful he can be in blending a winning directness of expression with a subtlety that comes from constantly varied inflections of dynamics and tonecolour.

April 2020

Montalbetti (who spent two decades working as an arts administrator and kept his music under wraps until a few years ago) counts Pierre Boulez and George Benjamin and among his influences, and it shows. The opening Duo receives an incisive yet lyrical performance from its dedicatee Christian Tetzlaff, and the Hommage à Matisse is every bit as colourful as the paintings which inspired it.

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