In Motu: Rota, Martinu, Mendelssohn
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Label: Trptk
Cat No: TTK0071
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 3rd September 2021
Contents
Artists
Intercontinental EnsembleWorks
Nonet, H374Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian' (arr. for nonet)
Nonetto
Artists
Intercontinental EnsembleAbout
In 2018, they released their debut album Traveling Light on the enterprising TRPTK label, featuring arrangements of Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms. The production was met with more than enthusiastic response. “I already wrote about the sublime artistic level, because that’s what the Intercontinental Ensemble (….) has to offer. Of course, symphony orchestras play this music with the proverbial two fingers in their noses, but reduced to this pure form of chamber music, the cards are definitely different: every individual nuance, every accent counts, just as phrasing and dynamics require extreme precision in order to achieve what is ultimately at stake in this case: extreme artistically designed transparency” (Aart van der Wal in Opus Klassiek).
Now there is a strong follow-up with iconic nonets by Rota and and Martinu and an arrangement of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony under the motto In Motu (in motion). “We rehearsed vigorously during the quiet period of the Corona pandemic and wanted to bring something optimistic. Hence the choice of this cheerful repertoire. Moreover, we felt that the time was now ripe to add some contemporary nonets to the repertoire,” says artistic director and violinist Ernst Spyckerelle.
The album starts with the evocative music of Rota, known primarily as a film composer. What is special is that this time he does not have to bend to a director and can go his artistic way unhindered. Martinu’s Nonet is a musical love letter to his native Czech Republic, which he had to leave at a young age and to which he can no longer return. Mendelssohn’s famous Fourth Symphony, as is well known, forms a nostalgic account of his Italian journey.
Remarkably, In Motu is the prelude to a subsequent album, featuring repertoire by female artiste through the ages: with illustrious names such as Louise Farrenc and Clara Schumann and attention to the new generation: Bianca Bongers, Sarah Neutkens and Aregnaz Martirosyan. Few ensembles make such a varied and surprising musical journey as the ever-moving Intercontinental Ensemble.
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