NEW RELEASE CYPRES | NOVEMBER 2014
michel fourgon | filigranes liège royal philharmonic | pascal rophé jean-‐pierre peuvion | namur chamber choir
1_Le tracé s’envole for four-‐voices mixed chorus and orchestra (2010) 2_Filigranes “concert” for orchestra (2006) 3_La Brise du Roseau “concert” for clarinet and orchestra (2004) 4_Cori Spezzati for orchestra (2001)
The first disc entirely devoted to the Belgian composer Michel Fourgon, Filigranes leads the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (OPRL) ‘adrift’ yet under the priceless guidance of Pascal Rophé with his “amazing ability to convey a new score in minute detail and with an expression that make him a conductor with whom every composer today would want to collaborate” (Michel Fourgon). To the perennial question of the most inquisitive and “what about musical creation?”, Filigranes is a tree bearing the fruits of more than ten years of collaboration between the composer and one of the most high-‐profile of European orchestras. With Filigranes, the listener is plunged directly into the very heart of an orchestral morphing that is at once dense and nuanced, a playful patchwork highlighted by inspiration that erupts ‘en filigrane’ -‐ as a watermark. From the cori spezzati of the Renaissance to the indeterminacy of the American avant-‐garde, Filigranes also shows a playful Luigi Nono engaging with Clara Schumann and others. Quite particular attention is paid to the Belgian poet Corinne Hoex – her text sung by the Namur Chamber Choir (CCN), revealing the mysteries of an utterly remarkable correspondence. To this compass rose of contemporary music formed by Michel Fourgon, the OPRL, Pascal Rophé and the CCN, is added the prodigiously inspirational breath of the clarinettist Jean-‐Pierre Peuvion (already the first performer of many works by composers such as Pousseur, Scelsi, Cage, Messiaen, Radulescu, etc.). Listeners, you have a favourable wind! Filigranes will carry you off like the waves of the North Sea “with neither return nor backwash.” DDD | Total time: 65'40 | Booklet: 24 pages Live recording at the Salle philharmonique de Liège on 7 November 2008 (track 4), on 21 January 2005 (track 3) and on 10 June 2011 (track 1), as well as at Maison de Radio France (Salle Olivier Messiaen) during Festival Présences on 16 February 2007 (track 2) Recording, editing and mastering: RTBF/Musiq’3, France Musique – Denis Guerdon Reference: CYP4641 | Bar code: 5412217046415 Cypres-‐Kastafior sprl. | 7, rue d’Alost | B-‐1000 Brussels +32 2 213 36 65 | www.cypres-‐records.com