DISCOGRAPHY

Allain Gaussin CD

 

HARMONIE DES SPHÈRES
Ensemble Sillages,
AmeSON, ASCP 1324 - 2014

Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Charles Cros, 2014

L'HARMONIE DES SPHÈRES
Ensemble Sillages,
Renaud Déjardin, conductor

SATORI
Jean Marc Fessard, clarinet

OGIVE
transcription for flute and piano
Sophie Deshayes, flute
Vincent Leterme, piano
JARDIN ZEN
Jean Marc Fessard, clarinet


TOKYO-CITY
Vincent Leterme, piano

CHAKRA
Alexandra Greffin Klein, Lyonel Schmit, violins
Gilles Deliège, viola
Séverine Ballon, cello

Philippe Arrii-Blachette, art director of Sillages Ensemble chose to group in this CD six works of Allain Gaussin. They testify of the style of the composer, profoundly inhabited by a constantly evolving energy but also by a ceaseless melodic search.

FNAC | AMAZON

 

IRISATION-RITUEL, ARCANE, CAMAÏEUX
Salabert, distribution Harmonia Mundi SCD 9410 - 1995

Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Charles Cros, 1995

IRISATION-RITUEL
Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique
Peter Eötvös, conductor
Irène Jarsky, soprano
Pierre-Yves Artaud, flute

ARCANE
Jay Gottlieb, piano

CAMAÏEUX
Ensemble Itinéraire, Yves Prin, conductor

Two major works of Allain Gaussin, the one for large orchestra and soloists, the other one for solo piano. Two masterpieces. Irisation-Rituel reveals one of the main sources of inspiration of Allain Gaussin, the nature as the object of metaphysical and cosmic meditation. A powerful orchestral writing, livened up by telluric strengths but also by sketched breaths or by long ornamented melodic phrases. Arcane, mysterious by definition, renews in a very personal and surprising way the piano writing. Camaïeux draws tints of the first tries of writing with electronic sounds.

FNAC | AMAZON

 

ÉCLIPSE, OGIVE, EAU-FORTE
Vinyl record Arpège Calliope, CAL 1853 - 1983

ÉCLIPSE
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Peter Eötvös, conductor

OGIVE for flute and harpsichord
Pierre-Yves Artaud, flute
Elisabeth Chojnacka, harpsichord

EAU-FORTE
Atelier Musique de Ville d'Avray
Jean Louis Petit, conductor

Very beautiful interpretations of the works written around the period when the composer stays at the Villa Medicis. In this first monographic record are already in germ, the main characteristics of the style of Allain Gaussin.

PRICEMINISTER

 

Recordings in a compilation

 

THE ARDITTI QUARTET EDITION
Montaigne Records, 782 002 - 1991

CHAKRA
Arditti quartet


Arditti quartet, four interpreters at the top of their art, gives life to "the conception fundamentally energetics of the sound material in Allain Gaussin’s works" (Alain Durney). The sound material of Chakra results from a mess of extended techniques of an extreme variety and novelty as well as of a contrapuntal writing reinvented by the composer.

AMAZON

 

MUSIQUE FRANCAISE DU XXe SIECLE
Ensemble Triton II
REM, 311 294 - 1996

OGIVE pour flute and piano
Chiharu Tachibana, flute
Takehido Yamada, piano


Ogive
is played by the young ensemble Triton II who aims to promote contemporary music in keeping with the thinking of composers. In that piece, the meditative thought of Allain Gaussin, joining together Western tradition and Far eastern tradition, is here splendidly interpreted.

 

RÉPERTOIRES POLYCHROMES
MFA - Radio France MFA 216 021/22 - 1997

OGIVE for flute and harpsichord
Ensemble Triton II
Mie Ogura, flute
Fuminori Tanada, harpsichord


Through these "Répertoires polychromes", the Documentation Center of the Contemporary Music pays tribute in " the daring of the composers " as in the " talent of their interpreters " which build together " the musical directory of our future ". Triton II plays with talent the transcription for flute and harpsichord wich was written before the transcription for flute and piano.

 

COSMOGONIES
Yvan Bellocq, Flutes
Galun Records - 2004

LA CHEVELURE DE BÉRÉNICE
Yvan Bellocq, flute


Composer and flutist, Yvan Bellocq achieves, with an immense sensibility, the will of Allain Gaussin " to invent something new in melodic phrase ". The influence of the musics of Far East appears in the modal writing ornamented as in the very uncluttered conception of time.

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