Acoustiques [Live] [Import]

Product Description
The First Unplugged Album from Rita Mistouko. Including New Versions of their Great Titles plus Three New Songs. Recorded Live at L'Opus Cafe in Paris in October 1996.

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Average customer rating: great and fun to listen to.

Acoustiques Les Rita Mitsouko Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Re Rita Mitsouko - (5 Titres en Plus) ASIN: B000005RR8 Release Date: 1999-12-28

Tracks:

1. Nuit D'ivresse
2. Andy
3. Stupid Anyway
4. Marcia Baila
5. Ailleurs
6. Les Histoires D.A.
7. Les Consonnes
8. Les Amants
9. Riche
10. Y'a D'la Haine
11. Cheres Petites
12. La Taille Du Bambou
13. C'est Comme Ca

Album Details

The First Unplugged Album from Rita Mistouko. Including New Versions of their Great Titles plus Three New Songs. Recorded Live at L'Opus Cafe in Paris in October 1996.

Customer Reviews:

great and fun to listen to........1998-11-13

This CD has Rita Mitsouko's greatest hits performed live! She sounds great here. Iis is great party music

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Bornes Acoustiques 67/88 Julos Beaucarne Manufacturer: Epm Musique ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008F1OM Release Date: 1996-02-20

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Sylvie Vartan Acoustiques Sylvie Vartan Manufacturer: Universal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00007DXI4 Release Date: 2002-12-30

Average customer rating: the spectral masterwork finally appears

Gérard Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques Composer: Gerard Grisey , Conductor: Stefan Asbury , and Performer: WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln Manufacturer: Kairos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Tristan Murail: Gondwana; Désintégrations; Time and Again Gérard Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil Gérard Grisey: Solo pour deux; Anubis-Nout; Stèle; Charme; Tempus ex machina The Music of Elliott Carter Vol. 7; Boston Concerto, Cello Concerto, ASKO Concerto, Dialogues Trygve Madsen: 24 Preludes & Fugues [Hybrid SACD] ASIN: B0009HLD7I Release Date: 2005-05-31

Customer Reviews:

the spectral masterwork finally appears.......2005-09-04

In avant circles the name Gerard Grisey holds mysterious power. Grisey, who died in 1998 at the age of 52, had created a new "school" (along with Tristan Murail) known as spectral music, however, this school was more talked about than heard. Now Grisey's major work, "Les Espaces Acoustiques" (1974-85) is finally available -- actually in two recordings, the original on Accord from the late Nineties now reissued, and this new Kairos recording with Stefan Asbury conducting the Asko Ensemble and the WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln.

"Les Espaces" is in six parts which were written separately as stand-alone pieces, though there is a clear structure linking them together, and the full impact is only felt when it is played in its entirety. The opening ("Prologue" -- 15'28) is a solo for viola, played here by Garth Knox. Then follows "Periodes" (15'28) for seven musicians, and "Partiels" (22'02") for 18 musicians. So the sound gradually expands, becoming lusher and more complex. The second disc consists of "Modulations" (16'10") for 33 musicians, followed by "Transitoires" (19'54) for large orchestra and "Epilogue" (8'03") for four horns and large orchestra. "Modulations" has been recorded by Pierre Boulez and his Ensemble Intercontemporain, and was performed in May 2005 by the San Francisco Symphony. I am not yet convinced by the "Epilogue," and tend to think that the ending of "Transitoires" makes a better ending to the overall work, though it is certainly less dramatic. The loud stacatto horns just don't seem to mesh with all that has gone before.

According to Grisey in the liner notes, "[t]he unity of the whole is based on the formal similarity of the pieces and on the two acoustic points of reference: the overtone spectrum and periodicity." He notes that the musical language includes "applying phenomena that have long been studied in electronic studios to the area of instrumental sound. These applications may be heard in their more radical forms in "Partiels" and "Modulations."

I will not attempt a technical exegesis of the work. Grisey's notes and further commentary easily accessible on the web provide some basis for understanding "Les Espaces," as well as Grisey's "spectral" theory of sound. But I can say that it sounds fantastic! The closest thing to it is Ligeti's micropolyphony, so that gives you something to compare it to and judge whether you are likely to enjoy it or not. Grisey and Murail (see my review of his GONDWANA) developed spectral music in reaction against serialism, and their compositions definitely sound less like Boulez than Ligeti and sometimes Xenakis.

Availabiity still seems to be an issue with both this Kairos and the Accord recordings, but "Les Espaces Acoustiques" is well worth tracking down for anyone devoted to the late 20th century avant-garde -- this particular 2002 performance and recording is outstanding.

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GÉRARD GRISEY : Les espaces acoustiques Manufacturer: Accord ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Tristan Murail: Gondwana; Désintégrations; Time and Again ASIN: B0007UXJ1K Release Date: 2005-02-17

Album Description

Gérard Grisey (1946-1998)

Les Espaces Acoustiques

Gerard Grisey died in Paris in November of 1998 at the unready age of 52. He and his comrades Tristan Murail and Hughes Dufour belonged to the French compositional school called "spectralism," but neither Grisey nor his music were well known in the U.S.

t seems somehow fitting that the spectral music movement -- a conscious effort to create new harmonies (in a departure from serialist traditions) by basing music on prescribed harmonic pitch series or spectra -- should have been spearheaded by a small group of French composers. For one thing, it was a Frenchman -- the Napoleonic-era mathematician Joseph Fourier -- who first postulated that any complex waveform of finite duration could be resolved into an infinite series of pure sine waves, each having its own frequency (thus, any time signal has its equivalent representation as a spectrum in the frequency domain). For another thing, Gallic composers have always remained aloof from the Germanic mainstream; from Janequin and Machaut to Messaien and Boulez, the French have always been possessed of a slightly different perspective and have tended to follow their own parallel but fiercely independent paths.

Gerard Grisey (b. 1946) was one of the founders of the spectral movement in France. Though he claims to have moved away from the tenets of spectralism in recent years, his association with spectral music is likely to dog him for the rest of his life -- in the same way that the Impressionist label followed Maurice Ravel to the end of his days and beyond. Grisey attended Germany's Trossingen Conservatory (1963-65) and the Conservatoire National Superieur in Paris (1965-72), where he studied composition with Messaien. He also studied under Dutilleux at the Ecole Normale Superieure and attended the seminars of Stockhausen, Ligeti and Xenakis at Darmstadt. He studied acoustics at the Paris Science Faculty (1974), won a study grant to the Villa Medici in Rome (1972-74), and was in residence at IRCAM in 1980. He has taught composition at Darmstadt, IRCAM, the Scuola Civica in Milan and at various American universities. From 1982 to 1986, he taught at U.C. Berkeley and thereafter! , at the Paris Conservatoire National.

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Acoustiques Rita Mitsouko Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DX7G Release Date: 1997-01-06

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