Label: Another Timbre - at168

コレは超名演です、持続音マニアは是非！！当店にて多くの音源を紹介している、Wandelweiser派の中心人物にして激シブなミニマル作曲アプローチでお馴染みのAntoine Beuger。本作はダブルベース、アコーディオン、バスクラリネット、ヴァイオリン、バスーン、ビオラ編成によるApartment Houseが演奏した、全64分に及ぶ2004年作曲の長編大作[Jankélévitch Sextets]。試聴の通り絶え間なく変化を続けるアコースティックのレイヤーが驚くほど没入感のある音像を描き出し、それを1時間体感する事によりこの作曲家本来の凄さが理解出来る名作。大推薦。



64-minute piece by Antoine Beuger, composed in 2004, and beautifully realised by Apartment House.

"It’s from a series of pieces I composed, each for a different number of players, from two to twenty. And the number in each piece is really important, because everything that happens can only happen in a situation where there are, in this case, six people. The question I was really involved with in this whole series was how is it to play with this particular number of musicians? It’s quite easy to see that to be two is somehow different from being three. But with five, six, seven, it becomes less easy to grasp the difference. But there will always be differences."

Apartment House play Antoine Beuger’s exquisite hour-long piece from 2004. Wonderfully immersive and absorbing sounds that feel as if they are touching eternity.

James Opstad, double bass
Mark Knoop, accordion
Heather Roche, bass clarinet
Mira Benjamin, violin
Joe Qiu, bassoon
Bridget Carey, viola

Recorded in London, August 2020