The composer, Pierre Bartholomée, views musical invention as a process of searching, experimenting, and diving into the unknown, involving both memory and risky imagination.
Composer Biography
Pierre Bartholomée, the composer, considers his 1970 piece Harmonique to be his first symphonic work.
Recording & Production
This album is a re-issue from 2017 of a recording originally released in 1987 by Ensemble Musique Nouvelle on Igloo Records, making it a 30-year anniversary re-release.
Compositional Technique
The work Trois Pôles entrelacés, by Pierre Bartholomée, is an homage to Berg's Kammerkonzert, featuring two solo instruments (harp and viola) in dialogue with a wind section, though with a different aesthetic and polyphonic approach.
Composition History
Fancy As A Ground, by Pierre Bartholomée, developed from an earlier virtuoso harp piece called Fancy, which was composed in 1974 for his wife, Francette Bartholomée, a brilliant solo harpist.
Compositional Technique
The piece Harmonique features a large orchestra with stereophonic strings and instrumental 'choruses,' ranging from homogeneous to heterogeneous, and includes wind instruments from the lowest to highest registers.
