Spiritual quest
20th and 21st century music for trumpet and organ
Ádám Rixer
Maurice Clement
Luxembourg, Philharmonie, Grand Auditorium
| Rolf Wallin (*1957) | Elegi D minor |
| Corrado Maria Saglietti (*1957) | Psalms for trumpet and organ |
| André Jolivet (1905-1975) | Arioso barocco |
| Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) | Variations grégoriennes D minor |
| Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) | Hymnus |
| Harald Genzmer (1909-2007) | Sonata for trumpet and organ C major |
| Ivan Boumans (*1983) | Spiritual quest F major |
Playing time: 1:3 (h:m)
Booklet: 20p., English German
Order Nr. AE 11251
EAN 4026798112516
Product category: SACD
Release date: 04/11/2020
- play_circle_outline Restlessness
- play_circle_outline Overwhelming joy, peace
- play_circle_outline Arioso barocco
- play_circle_outline Variations grégoriennes sur un Salve Regina
- play_circle_outline Hymnus
- play_circle_outline Sonate für Trompete und Orgel - Introduktion
- play_circle_outline Sonate für Trompete und Orgel - Allegro
- play_circle_outline Sonate für Trompete und Orgel - Choral, tranquillo
- play_circle_outline Sonate für Trompete und Orgel - Finale
- play_circle_outline Spiritual quest
Unexpected sounds for trumpet and organ from the Philharmonie de Luxembourg. A multifaceted Super Audio CD for the fifteenth anniversary of the grand Karl-Schuke organ in the Grand Auditorium.
Spritual Quest - the title of this album - is a composition by the young Spanish-Luxembourgish composer Ivan Boumans, who wrote the piece especially for this recording of contemporary music for trumpet and organ. This project is a counter-project to the usual albums of the genre 'trumpet & organ' and presents a wide spectrum of partly very different works for this instrumentation. All compositions were written in the second half of the 20th century, or even after 2000, and each of these works develops its own charm, with Maurice Clement making the most refined use of the tonal possibilities of the great Schuke organ of the Luxembourg Philharmonic. Ádám Rixer has been principal trumpet of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg for 20 years and masters the sometimes highly virtuoso solo passages with bravura.
Luxembourg, Philharmonie, Grand Auditorium
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Super Audio CD (SACD) Information
This 'Hybrid' Super Audio CD plays on all CD players and SACD players.
CD Audio: Stereo
SACD: Stereo High Resolution + Multichannel Surround High Resolution
Reviews on “Spiritual quest”
Pizzicato Robert-Jan Erde, 06.12.2020 :
An outstanding CD with many references to Luxembourg has been released on the highly competitive market. The trumpeter Ádám Rixer, the organist Maurice Clement and the sound engineer Christoph Martin Frommen have created a musical reference work that is unparalleled, especially for the works of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The incomparable beauty and organic balance of the lyrical playing of the two musical partners immediately captures the listener, but only fully unfolds when the subtleties of the coded surround sound can be reproduced.
The title Spiritual Quest refers to a work by the Luxembourg composer Ivan Boumans, this year’s winner of the ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) Composer Award, which was composed especially for this recording. This spiritual quest, including the meaning of life, the handling of feelings such as happiness, sadness, hope, desperation or strokes of fate, inevitable or unstoppable changes in life, can, however, be found in all the works selected for this recording.
Each of these compositions also shows a direct or indirect reference to the brilliant work of Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. In it, the trumpet symbolises (according to Ives) the eternal question of existence and the other groups of instruments the hunt for the invisible answer or undisturbed solitude.
Ultimately, however, Rixer’s trumpet on this CD tells life stories in a wonderful dialogue with the organ, stories that literally get under your skin and evoke emotional impulses.
The crystal-clear and contrapuntal voice-leading of the wonderfully registered Schuke organ of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra Luxembourg allows for a precise tracing of every single voice and phrase.
Such exceptional clarity of musical language creates a quasi sound-theatre or cinema for the listener, which is complemented and supported by gentle guidance of the emotions.
The amplification factors such as perfect pulsation, balance of the dialogues, choice of tone colours, narrative dramaturgy, absolute mastery of the most complicated rhythms, precision of melody leading, extraordinary transparency of the language, organic naturalness of phrasing or musical thoughts, appropriate contemplative narration, help the listener to continue this ‘spiritual search’.
The trumpet’s wonderful timbre, which adapts to the respective musical situation, also shows that absolute identification with this instrument conjures up the most beautiful music from all passages, even if they are technically almost unplayable.
The intimacy of the interpretation and the devotion of the two musicians result in a perfect fusion with the performing works.
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