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a r t i s t : Georges Aperghis
t i t l e : Avis de TempΩte
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Cypres (CYP5621)
g e n r e : Beat
r l s. d a t e : February/2006
t r a c k s : 13
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 79,6 MB
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Georges Aperghis and Peter Szendy Libretto
Donatienne Michel-Dansac Soprano
Johanne Saunier Actress and dancer
Lionel Peintre Baritone
Romain Bischoff Baritone
ICTUS
Georges-Elie Octors Conductor
After Die Hamletmaschine-oratorio released by Cypres in 2002,
Ictus returns with a new recording of a big piece by Georges
Aperghis, Avis de Tempete, first performed at the Lille Opera
in November 2004, and revived in June 2005 for the opening of
IRCAM's celebrated Agora festival in Paris.
Born in Athens in 1945, Aperghis settled in France in 1963.
From the 1970s he developed a highly personal style of
composition, on the fringes of mainstream currents in
contemporary music. He turned towards a theatricality of
sound, with a dynamic approach to both text and music, using
video at a very early stage as well as technological
innovation, and in this way he produced works that filled a
gap between theatre, opera and music.
Before composing a single note of Avis de Tempete (Storm
warning), Aperghis had given all his collaborators the
watchword to create an "opera that IS a storm". The librettist
Peter Szendy constructed a 'whale-text', i.e. an uninterrupted
flow of text fragments, words, loops, repetitions, syllables
gleaned from the works of Kafka, Baudelaire, Hugo and
Shakespeare, and structured around two stories by Herman
Melville, The Lightning-Rod Man and the famous Moby Dick. With
Aperghis, however, the text is not set to music, it IS the
music; the words are there to intensify the musical
intoxication and they sometimes lose their meaning to the
point of becoming mere sounds. The singers and reciters
accomplish a veritable feat of prowess, surrounded not only by
ten fabulous instrumentalists, but also by a world of
fascinating electronic effects that "are there to destabilise
the ensemble but also to sweep it away as a real storm would".
This aural hurricane is backed up by some spectacular studio
work on sound. Be careful, the SACD multichannel version might
well blow you away!
The result: music that is profuse, vigorous, organic. Avis de
Tempete is an opera that does not tell a story with events and
characters: it is a mechanism for creating an inner storm,
with its devastating gusts of wind and its depressions, an
incredible storm in a skull. Ictus is the ideal musical crew
for staying in command of this storm, described by the press
as "a total art work".
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01-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 1 [06:44]
02-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 2 [01:54]
03-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 3 [05:48]
04-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 4 [06:48]
05-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 5 [01:20]
06-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 6 [04:34]
07-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 7 [04:45]
08-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 8 [05:41]
09-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 9 [05:00]
10-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 0 [03:14]
11-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 11 [05:30]
12-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 12 [04:23]
13-Avis de TempΩte Pt. 13 [03:26]
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59:07 min