Gérard Grisey: Le temps et l'écume & Les chants de l'amour

Featuring

Emilio Pomàrico
Paulo Álvares
Benjamin Kobler
Stephan Meier
Ron Colbers
Arnold Marinissen

Norbert Krämer
Walter Nussbaum
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Ensemble S
Schola Heidelberg
Gerard Grisey

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Grisey viewed sound as a living creature and respected the nature of musical material, influenced by societal debates of his time, including the environmental movement.

Compositional Technique

Grisey's compositional process often began with acoustic investigations, analyzing the overtone structure of an instrumental sound before working with its partial tones.

Composer Biography

Gérard Grisey, a co-founder of spectral music, studied with Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux and attended courses with Ligeti, Stockhausen, and Xenakis.

Performer Biography

Emilio Pomárico, the conductor, studied with Franco Ferrara and Sergiu Celibidache and is known for his focus on contemporary music, working with ensembles like Ensemble Modern.

Performer Biography

SCHOLA HEIDELBERG, founded in 1992, bridges ancient and new vocal music, with its soloists mastering diverse vocal techniques including microtonal intonation and breath sounds.

Composition History

Grisey co-founded the group L'Itinéraire in 1973 with Tristan Murail, Roger Tessier, and Michaël Levinas, which was instrumental in establishing spectral music.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Grisey's work is fundamentally shaped by themes like the compatibility of technology and feelings, and the dualisms of 'man and machine' or 'nature and technology'.