Jean-Baptiste Robin: Fantaisie Mécanique Music with Organ

Featuring

Jean Deroyer
Jean-Baptiste Robin
François Chaplin
Romain Leleu
Philippe Cuper
Frédéric Champion

Orchestre Régional de Normandie

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Compositional Technique

Jean-Baptiste Robin's harmonic language is based on a rigorously developed set of rules submitted to strict symmetry, including 35 sub-chromatic modes and reflective chords.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Jean-Baptiste Robin, the composer, frequently uses oxymorons in his music, such as in his organ concerto where mechanical mechanisms meet fantasy and lyricism.

Performer Biography

Romain Leleu, the trumpet player, is considered one of the finest musicians of his generation and was named "revelation among instrumental soloists" by Victoires de la Musique Classique.

Compositional Technique

Jean-Baptiste Robin frequently reuses themes across different works, a concept he relates to Lisztian thematic transformation.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Jean-Baptiste Robin's music is often powerfully evocative, aiming to narrate, describe, evoke, and stimulate the imagination, sometimes stirring primitive or semi-esoteric sentiments.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Jean-Baptiste Robin's musical world is inspired by the universal principle of the harmony of spheres, which grants access to the celestial harmony controlling the cosmos.

Instruments

The organ used for this recording, in Saint-Martin's church at Dudelange, was originally built in 1912 and later restored and extended to 78 speaking stops, blending German romantic and French symphonic tones.