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2019-09-12 07:30:21
A listening challenge: Philippe Manoury's large-scale musical fresco for piano duo and electronics in a stunning performance
Philippe Manoury Le Temps, Mode d’Emploi; GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, SWR Experimentalstudio; NEOS Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 September 2019 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) Some stunning playing in the world premiere recording of this challenging musical fresco for piano duo and electronicsFor this new disc NEOS from the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo (Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher) features their 2014 commission from French composer Philippe Manoury Le Temps, Mode d’Emploi (Time, Instructions for Use) for piano duet (two pianos) and electronics. The duo gave the UK premiere of the work in 2015 when Andrew Clements in The Guardian described it as a 'rigorous listening challenge'. On the disc the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo is joined by the SWR Experimentalstudio (live electronic realisation, Jose Miguel Fernandez and Dominik Kleinknecht, sound directors).(The disc is released on 27 September 2019) Philippe Manoury studied composition with Max Deutsch (one of Schoenberg's first students in […]
2015-10-18 08:30:04
Glyndebourne, East Sussex; Wigmore Hall, London Glyndebourne hits the road with Mozart’s tricky Turkish opera, and Wigmore Hall cooks up a storm of new musicComic but not quite funny enough, full of glorious arias but cumbersome in its need for spoken dialogue, Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) always presents problems in the theatre. If anything it becomes ever harder for today’s audiences to swallow. Pivoting on a Christian-Ottoman conflict, the uneasy aspects poke away at you however much you push them aside as historical anachronisms. This youthful work was first performed in Vienna in 1782, when orientalism was a novelty, cultural stereotyping acceptable and the jingling and drumming of Janissary bands all part of the exotic mix. Knowing how to pitch it right in tone and mood today remains a hazard. It is also hard to cast. Done badly it can make you […]
2015-10-13 15:32:22
Wigmore Hall, London A programme featuring the UK premiere of Manoury’s hugely ambitious Le Temps, Mode d’Emploi alongside Kurtág and Busoni made few concessions to the audienceAndreas Grau and Götz Schumacher have been playing as a piano duo since their teens, and over three decades and more together they have encouraged a wide range of contemporary composers to write pieces for them. One of their most substantial recent commissions has come from Philippe Manoury; GrauSchumacher gave the first performance of Le Temps, Mode d’Emploi (Time, Instructions for Use) in Witten last year, and brought it to London as the second half of their Wigmore Hall recital.Manoury’s hugely ambitious 55-minute piece, in which the sound of the two pianos is digitally transformed and projected through eight speakers around the auditorium, is, he says, “a large musical fresco on various ways to express time”. Its soundworld owes much to Boulez’s Répons and […]
2015-07-30 11:27:55
Brigitta Muntendorf's Key of presence , for two pianos, tape, and live electronics, was developed at the SWR Experimental Studio and had its premiere earlier this year at the ECLAT Festival in Stuttgart. The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo performs; the text comes from Javier Salinas's poem "Something is coming, my friend." Muntendorf aims here to explore the interaction between "analog" and "digital" worlds — between transient phenomena, such as a sound resonating and disappearing in space, and the infinite data banks in which we attempt to "freeze the present," as she writes in her notes. Previously: Muntendorf .
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