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File under: ContemporaryAvant-garde
Florian Weber
Imaginary Cycle (Music For Piano, Brass Ensemble And Flute) (LP)
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Idiosyncratic, large-scale and in its fundamental disposition one of a kind, Florian Weber’s Imaginary Cycle, conceived for the unique instrumentation of brass ensemble and piano, is a hybrid of multiple musical languages that seamlessly blends the harmonious with the oblique. Here Weber presents a cycle in four parts, plus an opening and an epilogue, in which the German pianist is joined by a group of four euphoniums, a trombone quartet as well as flautist Anna-Lena Schnabel and Michel Godard on the seldomly used “serpent” brass instrument, together performing a work that blurs the line where improvisation ends and composition begins.
As the ensemble elegantly journeys across Florian’s multiple-idioms-spanning oeuvre, symphonic passages mingle with intricate counterpoint, pastoral notions are contrasted with textures more contemporary and each voice in the ensemble plays an independent part, adding to a whole. A daring and spectacular endeavour, Imaginary Cycle follows Florian’s contributions to the albums by Matthieu Bordenave, Ralph Alessi and his own quartet recording Lucent Waters – though the musical intersections between those albums and this one are few and equivocal. The project, recorded at Sendesaal Bremen in July 2023, was developed in close collaboration with Manfred Eicher, who produced the album.
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File under: ContemporaryAvant-garde
Cat. number: ECM 2782, 651 6889
Year: 2024
Notes:
Heide Benser is credited with "Liner photos (4, left)", while there are actually no photos on page 4 of the booklet.
Recorded July 2022
at Sendesaal Bremen
Mixed March 2023
by [...] and [...],
[...] (engineer)
at Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich
An ECM Production
℗ © 2024 ECM Records GmbH, München [on O-card back; on tray card]
℗ © 2024 ECM Records GmbH [in booklet]
℗ 2024 ECM Records GmbH [on disc]
Printed in Germany
