Portrait Montréal (CD) Track listing detail
Pulau Dewata
Claude Vivier
- Year of composition: 1977
- Original work:
- Version: Arr. Michael Oesterle, 2002
- Duration: 11:47
- Instrumentation: string quartet
- Commission: Quatuor Bozzini
Stereo
ISRC CAA4J0410017
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
What I wanted to write was a piece imbued with the spirit of Bali: its dances, its rhythms and, above all, an explosion of life, simple and candid. The ending is the traditional signature of many Balinese pieces, a loving homage to this marvellous people from whom I learned so much.”
Premiere
- September 17, 2002, Bozzini Quartet • Concert de saison I, Chapelle Saint-Louis — Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montréal (Québec)
Quatuor à cordes no 2 «Tombeau»
Jean Lesage
- Year of composition: 2002
- Duration: 18:03
- Instrumentation: string quartet
- Commission: ECM+, with support from the CCA
Stereo
“The postmodern response to modernism consists in the acknowledgement that the past, given that it cannot be destroyed, since that destruction would lead to silence, must be revisited: with irony, in a non-innocent manner.” — Umberto Eco
Premiere
- May 14, 2002, Bozzini Quartet • Concert, Salle Pierre-Mercure — Centre Pierre-Péladeau, Montréal (Québec)
Quatuor à cordes no 2 «Tombeau», 1: Divertimento serioso
Jean Lesage
- Duration: 2:29
Stereo
ISRC CAA4J0410018
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
Quatuor à cordes no 2 «Tombeau», 2: Round, Catch and Canon Club
Jean Lesage
- Duration: 2:37
Stereo
ISRC CAA4J0410019
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
Quatuor à cordes no 2 «Tombeau», 3: Divertimento buffo
Jean Lesage
- Duration: 2:02
Stereo
ISRC CAA4J0410020
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
Quatuor à cordes no 2 «Tombeau», 4: Mr Birdcage’s Ground
Jean Lesage
- Duration: 2:40
Stereo
ISRC CAA4J0410021
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
Quatuor à cordes no 2 «Tombeau», 5: Tombeau
Jean Lesage
- Duration: 4:14
Stereo
ISRC CAA4J0410022
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
Quatuor à cordes no 2 «Tombeau», 6: Musique sur laquelle il n’est pas interdit de danser
Jean Lesage
- Duration: 3:40
Stereo
ISRC CAA4J0410023
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
Daydream Mechanics V
Michael Oesterle
- Year of composition: 2001
- Duration: 11:23
- Instrumentation: string quartet
- Commission: Quatuor Bozzini
Stereo
ISRC CAA4J0410024
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
The phrase “Daydream Mechanics” is taken from the title of a book by Québec poet Nicole Brossard. This is the fifth in a series of pieces with this title, all of which use mechanistic devices to provide the base material. This quartet recalls the awkward adventures of childhood when the backyard seemed as full of fearsome possibilities as any unexplored geography. The simple mechanics of controlling ones own maneuvers make a challenge of a cultivated wilderness.
Premiere
- April 29, 2001, Concert, Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin (Germany)
A New Song of Many Faces for In These Times
Malcolm Goldstein
- Year of composition: 2002
- Duration: 19:03
- Instrumentation: string quartet
- Commission: Quatuor Bozzini
Stereo
ISRC CAA4J0410025
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
The music is a structured improvisation composition in which the overall structure, as well as the process of development of each song, are pre-set and performance materials and techniques are clearly delineated. The element of improvisation then becomes the process through which all the musical materials are realized, moment to moment, by each musician within the framework of the composition.
Premiere
- May 2, 2002, Bozzini Quartet • Concert, La Chapelle — scènes contemporaines, Montréal (Québec)
A New Song of Many Faces for In These Times, 1: A Gently Flowing Song
Malcolm Goldstein
- Duration: 19:03
Stereo
A New Song of Many Faces for In These Times, 2: A Brutal Song
Malcolm Goldstein
- Duration: 19:03
Stereo
A New Song of Many Faces for In These Times, 3: An Agitated Song
Malcolm Goldstein
- Duration: 19:03
Stereo
A New Song of Many Faces for In These Times, 4: A Song of Inner Vision — Coda
Malcolm Goldstein
- Duration: 19:03
Stereo