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André Jolivet was a contemporary of Messiaen; both composers were part of a short-lived group called Jeune France that rejected the exotic and often jazzy accents of French neo-classicism in favor of weightier ideas, including serialism. Jolivet, along with all the other Jeune France composers except Messiaen, has been largely forgotten. That's too bad, for the string/orchestra works of Jolivet heard here have a sensuous surface appeal that draws the listener into their conceptual and numerological complexities. These performances by the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie (Regional Orchestra of Savoy) under Lithuanian-Chinese-Australian conductor Mark Foster were originally issued in 1994; their reissue is welcome, for recordings and performances of Jolivet's music are still rare. The opening Symphonie pour cordes (or Symphony for strings) is tough going for the listener; when annotator Harry Halbreich argues that "the future has yet to catch up with its boldness," one has to ask just how such prophecy, looking many decades forward, could be possible. Things pick up after that, however, and listeners who immerse themselves in Jolivet's dense string textures will be rewarded with a spacious mysticism that somewhat resembles that of Messiaen, but achieves it by completely different means, more dissonant and more inclined toward polyphony. Try Yin-Yang (track 4), a work commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich and featuring unusual and subtly evolving combinations of a cello with higher strings, often playing in overtones. Jolivet rejected Stravinsky's thoroughgoing influence on French music, and with it Stravinsky's rhythmic élan. So it's hard to fault a symphony programmer who chooses Stravinsky instead, but these involved, contemplative string pieces are good to have in the catalog once again.
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String Symphony (André Jolivet)
Mark Foster, Conductor - Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Orchestra - André Jolivet, Composer
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Mark Foster, Conductor - Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Orchestra - André Jolivet, Composer
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Mark Foster, Conductor - Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Orchestra - André Jolivet, Composer
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Yin-Yang (André Jolivet)
Mark Foster, Conductor - Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Orchestra - André Jolivet, Composer
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Adagio (André Jolivet)
Mark Foster, Conductor - Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Orchestra - André Jolivet, Composer
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La Flèche du Temps (André Jolivet)
Mark Foster, Conductor - Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Orchestra - André Jolivet, Composer
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Andante (André Jolivet)
Mark Foster, Conductor - Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Orchestra - André Jolivet, Composer
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Album review
André Jolivet was a contemporary of Messiaen; both composers were part of a short-lived group called Jeune France that rejected the exotic and often jazzy accents of French neo-classicism in favor of weightier ideas, including serialism. Jolivet, along with all the other Jeune France composers except Messiaen, has been largely forgotten. That's too bad, for the string/orchestra works of Jolivet heard here have a sensuous surface appeal that draws the listener into their conceptual and numerological complexities. These performances by the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie (Regional Orchestra of Savoy) under Lithuanian-Chinese-Australian conductor Mark Foster were originally issued in 1994; their reissue is welcome, for recordings and performances of Jolivet's music are still rare. The opening Symphonie pour cordes (or Symphony for strings) is tough going for the listener; when annotator Harry Halbreich argues that "the future has yet to catch up with its boldness," one has to ask just how such prophecy, looking many decades forward, could be possible. Things pick up after that, however, and listeners who immerse themselves in Jolivet's dense string textures will be rewarded with a spacious mysticism that somewhat resembles that of Messiaen, but achieves it by completely different means, more dissonant and more inclined toward polyphony. Try Yin-Yang (track 4), a work commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich and featuring unusual and subtly evolving combinations of a cello with higher strings, often playing in overtones. Jolivet rejected Stravinsky's thoroughgoing influence on French music, and with it Stravinsky's rhythmic élan. So it's hard to fault a symphony programmer who chooses Stravinsky instead, but these involved, contemplative string pieces are good to have in the catalog once again.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : 73:34 - DDD - Enregistré au Dôme-Théâtre d'Albertville (France) en septembre 1994 - Notes en français & anglais
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 7 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:31
- Main artists: Orchestre des Pays de Savoie Mark Foster
- Composer: André Jolivet
- Label: Timpani
- Area: France
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Contemporary music
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