Alain Kremski – Musiques Rituelles pour Cloches et Gongs (1999)
Classical/Contemporary | FLAC lossless | cuesheets+log | covers+booklet | 59m45s | 195mb
Label: Auvidis | cat. no. A 6266
I ordered this cd for the compositions for gongs and bells, of course. They are marvelous.
Alain Kremski performs the score of 'Ritual music for bells and gongs' on the following instruments: 72 early gongs from Iran (17th - 18th century), a number of early gongs from other countries (China, Afghanistan, Syria, Greece, Italy, France) and 13 tuned gongs, the lowest being as much as one metre in diameter. The bells are arranged in a specific order, according to size, timbre and pitch on parallel bars, suspended from rectangular wooden frames. Altogether these bells cover a range of two octaves, with all the chromatic degrees.
Bell frames have been in use since antiquity, both in the Orient and in the West (in the Middle Ages). They may still be seen today in Taiwan, where, standing at the entrance to the temple, they are used for religious ceremonies. This principle of bells supported on a frame inspired Alain Kremski to form this collection which is unique in Europe and now belongs to the Jeunesses Musicales de France. The music Alain Kremski performs on these bells and gongs is written down. He follows a specific course in time and space, in which the successive impressions follow a particular order. The writing of his scores for bells may be compared to that of Gregorian chant, It is very free (flowing, generous, without bar lines, the varying spaces between the notes acting as punctuation and breathing space). The many small vertical arrows placed above or below certain notes indicate the quarter tones. Alain Kremski strikes the outside of the bells with special hammers which are hard enough to produce a clear sound and soft enough to enable the performer to create a whole range of nuances and colours and obtain tones that may be pure, transparent or muffled, with great delicacy both in the loud notes and in the subtlest of pianissimos, and they are light enough to permit great virtuosity and enable the musician to produce a quick succession of notes. To play these works, the composer moves along the main bell frame and also from one frame to the other, setting the bells in motion in a very precise order.
Tracks:
01. Musiques rituelles pour cloches et gongs - Le Christ au Mont des Oliviers [0:18:11.06]
02. Musiques rituelles pour cloches et gongs - Prières et méditation secrètes [0:08:46.98]
03. Musiques rituelles pour cloches et gongs - Poèmes de l'Exaltation [0:10:11.30]
04. Mégalithes pour piano - Regard sur un temps immémorial [0:03:38.53]
05. Mégalithes pour piano - Dans le temple de Gvr'inis [0:06:10.45]
06. Mégalithes pour piano - Camac, porte du Temps [0:12:49.54]
Performer:
Alain Kremski – gongs and bells (tr.1-3); piano (tr.4-6)
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