Maurice Ohana (1913-1992) - Anneau du Tamarit - Signes - Livre des Prodiges
Maurice Ohana (1913-1992): Anneau du Tamarit - Signes - Livre des Prodiges
Contemporary | 1990 | EAC | APE+CUE+log | 3% Recovery | 285 MB | Covers+Booklet | 01:13:28 | RS
Alain Meunier - Orchestre National de France - Ensemble Ars Nova
Contemporary | 1990 | EAC | APE+CUE+log | 3% Recovery | 285 MB | Covers+Booklet | 01:13:28 | RS
Alain Meunier - Orchestre National de France - Ensemble Ars Nova
Anneau du Tamarit (1977)
Alain Meunier, cello
Orchestre National de France - conductor : Marc Andrae
1. Anneau du Tamarit
Signes (1963)
Ensemble Ars Nova - conductor : Marius Constant
2. Signes (l'arbre) : Dans la nuit
3. Signes (l'arbre) : L'arbre animé d'oiseaux
4. Signes (l'arbre) : L'arbre noyé de pluie
5. Signes (l'arbre) : L'arbre prisonnier des fils de la Vierge
6. Signes (l'arbre) : L'arbre battu par le vent
7. Signes (l'arbre) : L'arbre brûlé par le soleil
Livre des Prodiges (1978-79)
Orchestre National de France - conductor : Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
8. Livre des Prodiges partie 1 : 1. Clair de terre
9. Livre des Prodiges partie 1 : 2. Cortège des taureaux ailés
10. Livre des Prodiges partie 1 : 3. Immémorial
11. Livre des Prodiges partie 1 : 4. Hydre - 5. Clé des songes
12. Livre des Prodiges partie 1 : 6. Clair de terre - 7. Soleil renversé
13. Livre des Prodiges partie 2 : 1. Conjuration des sorts
14. Livre des Prodiges partie 2 : 2. Alecto - 3. Son noir
15. Livre des Prodiges partie 2 : 4. Jeu des masques - 5. Clair de terre
16. Livre des Prodiges partie 2 : 6. Korô-Ngô
Maurice Ohana's musical influences are truly multi-cultural. He was born in Casablanca , Morocco in 1913 one year after the Treaty of Fès imposed French rule on the country. He came from Sephardic-Jewish stock and his parents were of Spanish-Gibraltarian origin and held British nationality as a result of the Gibraltar connection. This meant that Ohana was a British citizen until he became a French national in 1976. But although the British side of his parents determined his nationality it was his Spanish ancestry coupled with his exposure to traditional tribal music from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa and Afro-Cuban folk-music that helped forge his musical style.
The teenage Ohana left Morocco to study architecture in Paris, a vocation he shared with Iannis Xenakis. But he soon switched his studies to music and became a concert pianist on graduating. He worked as pianist with a Spanish dance group and became immersed in the music of Falla, Albéniz and Granados. But he saw his future as a composer and in 1937 enrolled in the composition class at the Schola Cantorum in Paris where Renaissance polyphony added another layer to his cosmopolitan composition style.
After the end of the 2nd World War, he felt out of sympathy with Boulez and other members of the Darmstadt School, but he was not a disciple. His stylistic influences were pretty eclectic even if they did not include the holy trinity of Boulez, Messiaen and Stockhausen. That great figure of twentieth century music Igor Stravinsky was a major influence with Ohana's Livre des Prodiges (“Book of the Prodigies”) for orchestra paying homage to the Rite through quotation, while some of Ohana's progressive counterpoint recalls Witold Lutoslawski and there are also hints of Carl Orff in his writing for voices.
Among Ohana's early influences are de Falla with whom he shared a passion for the harpsichord.
Ohana's orchestral balances were of the moment and favoured piano and percussion over strings, and he explored new techniques including the use of micro-intervals and writing for the voice as instrument rather than narrator. But counterbalancing these contemporary credentials were references to the past including Medieval and Renaissance Spain and Andalusian flamenco.
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