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Intimités

Émilie Girard-Charest

Contemporary music aficionados, and all other listeners too, are encouraged to experience this great Girard-Charest release. The WholeNote, Canada

Girard-Charest seems to work from a limited set of ideas and with a clear focus. […] Interesting work! Vital, Pays-Bas

Prix Opus 2021-22: Album de l’année — Finaliste

Émilie Girard-Charest nous présente l’album Intimités, qui réunit 4 œuvres composées entre 2014 et 2019. Destinées à différents ensembles, ces œuvres offrent un moment d’intimité dans les univers musicaux d’Émilie. Des cordes et encore des cordes, parfois accompagnées de piano ou de percussions, nous font plonger dans une délicatesse à laquelle se mêle l’émotion brute, et nous sommes portés par l’écriture précise et rigoureuse de la compositrice. L’album révèle l’ampleur et la puissance du langage musical d’Émilie Girard-Charest.

  • Conseil des arts du Canada

CD (AM 263)

  • Étiquette: Ambiances Magnétiques
  • AM 263
  • 2021
  • UCC 771028126323
  • Durée totale: 56:14
  • Boîtier sympathique
  • 126 mm × 126 mm × 5 mm
  • 35 g

Téléchargement (AM 263_NUM)

Vidéos
  • Bande-annonce: Émilie Girard-Charest; vidéo: Farid Kassouf; En anglais, français; Sous-titré en anglais, français; 2022
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Review

Tiina Kiik, The WholeNote, no 27:8, 1 juillet 2022
Contemporary music aficionados, and all other listeners too, are encouraged to experience this great Girard-Charest release.

Review

Dolf Mulder, Vital, no 1335, 21 mai 2022

Émilie Girard-Charest is a rising star from the Montréal-scene. So far, this Canadian cellist, composer and improviser is most known for her work as a performer, being a member of various ensembles, and being involved in the premiere of many new compositions from diverse composers. Her compositions have been performed by ensembles like Zukan trio, Thin Edge New Music Collective, SuperMusique, a.o. Also she has several albums out. All of them are collaborations with artists like Violeta Garcia ( Impermanence ), Sergio Castrillón ( Enthousiasme viscéral ), a.o. Intimités is the first album with compositions solely by Émilie Girard-Charest. Four works are presented here: Asyndètes (2017), Épanchements (2014), Heurts (2019) and Intimités (2018). Asyndètes (2017), is written for a quartet, performed here by violinists Lyne Allard, Geneviève Liboiron and Jean René, plus

Girard-Charest herself on cello. An interaction of short attacks and movements with changing dynamics gives a constant suggestion of discontinuity. Épanchements (2014) is written for a trio lineup. Again we hear Liboiron and Girard-Charest joined by pianist Daniel Anez. Often the music is close to silence here, interrupted by high-pitched and long-stretched noisy sounds. Heurts is a work of more joyful and playful movements for violin and cello accompanied by piano (Daniel Anez) and percussion (Noam Bierstone). Intimités (2018) is written for an ensemble performed here by the Montréal chamber ensemble Novarumori. This microtonal work has penetrating dissonant passages resulting from slow evolving movements. Her strings-dominated works are accessible and stripped down in a way. Girard-Charest seems to work from a limited set of ideas and with a clear focus. On the other hand, the works aren’t accessible at all and need careful attention before they reveal why they are there. Interesting work!

Girard-Charest seems to work from a limited set of ideas and with a clear focus. […] Interesting work!