Bruno Mantovani: Le sette chiese, Streets & Éclair de lune

Featuring

Susanna Mälkki
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Bruno Mantovani

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Recording & Production

IRCAM, founded by Pierre Boulez in 1970, is one of the world's largest public research centers dedicated to musical research and creation, with over 150 staff members.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Mantovani's music is inspired by a fundamental tension, which he introduces through fractures, hierarchical elements, and concerted intellectual structures within his works.

Performer Biography

Susanna Mälkki, the current Music Director of the Ensemble intercontemporain, had a successful career as a cellist before studying conducting.

Composer Biography

Mantovani has collaborated with renowned soloists like Emmanuel Pahud and Jean-Guihen Queyras, and conductors such as Pierre Boulez and Susanna Mälkki.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Mantovani sees composing as hearing, and he spends more time revising his works than composing them, believing he can only complete them once he hears them.

Performer Biography

The Ensemble intercontemporain, founded by Pierre Boulez in 1976, consists of 31 soloists dedicated to 20th-21st century music.

Composer Biography

Bruno Mantovani, born in 1974, studied at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM) where he won five first prizes in analysis, aesthetics, orchestration, composition, and musicology.