Gandrille: Minimalist-Concerto

Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra;

PTY 614126

2015 has been a good, sun-filled year for Jean-Claude Gandrille. The Auvers sur Oise Festival has chosen him as its guest composer. To be fair, he is already well-acquainted with the town, beloved of the Impressionist painters, as he serves as organist there for the Église Notre-Dame. During the festival, ten concerts will include his works; it s a sort of consecration for this improvising organist and composer. The violin concerto has a surprising story in two parts; two parts that are far apart from one another. The first was a poem for violin, subtitled 'Beyond, Towards the Azure...' conceived in 2004 and clearly engaged with Henri Dutilleux s music and poetic sense. Gandrille met Dutilleux and showed him the score, intended for the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium composition competition. The manuscript then slumbered in Gandrille s archives until 2011, when Marcel Khalifé, a brilliant Lebanese oud-player and singer who sits on the board of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, suggested a performance in Doha for March 2012. But the piece was very short: a mere ten minutes. And what if you were to write a second movement? Gandrille set to work on the new movement immediately. The Minimalist-Concerto is surprising from the perspective of its instrumentation, as both the piano and organ dialogue with the orchestra. As with the violin concerto, the work was premiered in Doha, in March 2013.

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10-08-2015

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