Roger Boutry: Interférences I (1972)

Описание: 00:00 - I. Interférences I: Allegro
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Bassoon: Maurice Allard
Piano: Roger Boutry (?)
Year of Recording: 1976
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“The composer, conductor, teacher and pianist Roger Boutry was a native Parisian who was born in 1932 and at the age of eleven became a pupil of Marguerite Long (1874 – 1966), Nadia Boulanger (1887 –1979) and Tony Aubin (1907 – 1981) at the Paris Conservatoire. He garnered many prizes there, climaxing with the Prix de Rome in 1954; in 1958, as a pianist, he was awarded a special prize at the immensely prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. From 1962 he was Professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatoire. The idea of his zanily named Interférences I, composed in 1972, is a bizarre dialogue between bassoon and piano, in which unexpected rhythmic and metrical irregularities and pitfalls set up musical ‘interferences’ as the players juxtapose widely contrasted gestures and styles. In this brilliant display piece Debussy, Poulenc and Messiaen are three French composers whose shades are briefly evoked, as are a rugged jazz dance style and a percussive, Bartókian vein (not to mention a disguised reminiscence of the famous bassoon solo at the opening of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps). The bassoon is nevertheless allowed some frankly lyrical unaccompanied solos in the course of this diverting and imaginative work.” (Calum Macdonald)
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