IDAGIO | Nicolas Bacri: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 - Works for Flute 5060113447333

Featuring

Danielle Breisach
Yana Avedyan
Andrew Briggs
Nicolas Bacri

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Nicolas Bacri's compositional teaching emphasizes counterpoint as the matrix of Western music, focusing on the superimposition of lines and their harmonic interaction.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Nicolas Bacri aims to retain the most beautiful aspects of the tonal system, such as dissonance and modulation, without preserving its traditional 'modus operandi'.

Composer Biography

Nicolas Bacri considers the act of writing music a 'terrible ordeal' due to the pressure of living up to his preconceived musical imagination.

Performer Biography

Danielle Breisach, a flautist on this album, is Principal Flute with the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra and piccolo-player with the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra.

Recording & Production

The pieces on this album were recorded between 2015 and 2019 in the Audio for the Arts studio in Madison, Wisconsin.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Composer Nicolas Bacri believes that after 1950, great composers should be measured by what they 'saved' from tradition, rather than what they 'changed'.

Composer Biography

Nicolas Bacri was influenced by a wide range of composers, including Mahler, Debussy, Sibelius, and the Viennese school, which shaped his musical language from childhood.