Argumenta: Percussion Works by Manoury & Ravel
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Label: Divine Art
Cat No: EKKOZONE01
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 17th November 2023
Contents
Works
ArgumentaLe Livre des claviers
Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Mathias Reumert)
Artists
Mathias Reumert (marimba, vibraphone, percussion, piano)Anders Elten (marimba, vibraphone, percussion)
Works
ArgumentaLe Livre des claviers
Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Mathias Reumert)
Artists
Mathias Reumert (marimba, vibraphone, percussion, piano)Anders Elten (marimba, vibraphone, percussion)
About
“Argumenta synthesizes, in a way, all my previous compositions for keyboard percussion. Written for the outstanding Reumert/Elten Percussion Duo (who perform my works from memory!), Argumenta incorporates many of the techniques and ideas I had experimented with in previous works.
“The title ‘Argumenta’ is quite abstract but implicitly evokes a kind of joust or conversation in which the two musicians exchange ideas and proposals that will serve as a basis for confrontations. Sometimes the two protagonists ‘talk’ about the same thing in the same voice; sometimes they continue to talk about the same thing, but in more individual ways, and sometimes they oppose, pursue, interrupt, or influence each other.
“The marimba is a simple instrument: tuned wooden bars amplified by tube resonators. One would think that it wasn’t possible to create a legato phrasing with this construction. However, the virtuosity of today’s marimbists has transcended the limitations of the instrument. This extraordinary development has allowed me to articulate musical ideas that I previously wouldn’t have considered realizable. I am fighting against the fact that the marimba is a simple construction!”
Reumert and Elten also present Le Tombeau de Couperin in an exciting new version. Maurice Ravel’s masterful hybrid – true to Baroque forms but unmistakably Ravel – was written for solo piano and then orchestrated by the composer. These adaptations, in turn, inspired Mathias Reumert to transcribe the suite for keyboard percussion instruments.
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