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two devoted to the French composer Gilbert Amy. Like Bruno Maderna in
Italy, Amy enjoyed a successful career as a conductor (among other
things, succeeding Boulez as conductor of Domaine Musical), while also
producing a moderate-sized catalog of quality compositions. Also like
Maderna, Amy brought from his experience in conducting a fine ear for
orchestral tone combinations. This installment includes compositions for more various forces than AGP51. Sonata, Pian'E Forte from 1974 is for soprano, mezzo-soprano, and 12 instruments. Shin'Alim Sha'Ananim from 1979 is for alto voice, clarinet, cello and instrumental ensemble. Relais from 1967-69 is for brass quintet. And Récitatif, Air and Variation from 1970 is for twelve mixed voices a capella. The first two tracks are definitely my favorites in this installment, which is why they are the first two tracks. The installment is transcribed from two LPs on the Erato and Disques Ades labels. The Erato LP is in the excellent Musique Francaise D'Aujourd'Hui series. The installment includes a text file containing liner notes from the two LPs. The liner notes from the Disques Ades release are in French, and are an unedited output of my OCR program. To download AGP52 files, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE LINK AS. 04 - Sonata, Pian'E Forte [23:50] 05 - Shin'Alim Sha'Ananim [14:34] 06 - Relais [13:23] 07 - Récitatif, Air and Variation [13:21] Liner notes from LP |
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