Tiersen - La Plage: Arrangements for Guitar
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96124
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 15th January 2021
Contents
Works
A quaiComptine d'ete no.1
Comptine d'ete no.2
Comptine d'un autre ete: L'apres midi
La dispute
La plage
La valse d'Amelie
La valse des monstres
Le banquet
Sur le fil
Artists
George Tossikian (guitar)Works
A quaiComptine d'ete no.1
Comptine d'ete no.2
Comptine d'un autre ete: L'apres midi
La dispute
La plage
La valse d'Amelie
La valse des monstres
Le banquet
Sur le fil
Artists
George Tossikian (guitar)About
Tiersen shot to worldwide fame with his quirky, haunting score for the Oscar-winning Amélie (2001), but by that point he had gained considerable experience composing soundtracks for short films and incidental music for plays. Several of these pieces ended up on his first album, Valse des Monstres (1995); they also featured intricate arrangements incorporating various instruments.
Borrowing from French folk music, chanson, musette waltz, and street music, as well as rock, avant-garde, and classical and minimalist influences,Tiersen’s deceptively simple style has a classical base in the music of Chopin, Satie, Philip Glass and Michael Nyman. His gentle melodies lends themselves to the intimate language of the guitar, and Tossikian has selected pieces from throughout Tiersen’s career, focusing on these two albums but also including the title track La Plage.
Since the days of Segovia, guitarists have practised the art of transcription, and the Greek guitarist George Tossikian continues that tradition with this album. In pieces scored for solo piano or violin, he has aimed for close fidelity, whereas in the ensemble numbers he has taken a freer, more creative approach in order to recreate the colours of Tiersen’s score using guitar techniques such as natural harmonics and tremolo. The result is no less delightful or captivating than the originals.
One of the most gifted and creative of modern Greek guitarists, George Tossikian was born in Piraeus in 1981. He has made several fine recordings of Greek and Latin-American music; this album marks his debut on Brilliant Classics.
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