Long-time collaborators the Quatuor Bozzini string quartet of Clemens Merkel, Alissa Cheung, Stephanie Bozzini and Isabelle Bozzini join with Slavic composer living in Montreal Ana Sokolovic, to present a series of 14 short works -- "Ghost 1" & "Ghost 2"; "Commedia dell'arte" in 10 movements; "Blanc dominant"; and "Troisieme page apres le soleil".
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: Canada Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Tracks 1-13 recorded at Salle Oscar-Peterson, at the University of Concordia, in Montreal, Canada, on January 28th ti February 2nd, 2019, by Stephan Schmidt.
Tracks 14 recorded at Nation Film Board Of Canada, in Montreal, Canada, on April 8th, 2013 by Geoffrey Mitchell.
"In most of Ana Sokolovic's work, an extra-musical element serves as a source of inspiration. This particular compositional process is intimately linked to the importance of "pluralities" for Sokolovic; a diversity of approaches, putting different art forms in dialogue.
Short Stories by Sokolovic's long-term collaborator, Quatuor Bozzini, enables us to listen to the encounter taking place between the composer's artistic sensitivity and four of her sources of inspiration. In the realm of visual arts we discover the composer's interest in sculpture; her miniatures, Ghost 1 and Ghost 2, were inspired by Verina Baxter and Klaus Duschat's Enzo's Tumpkin and Scetch II. Triggered by a contemplation of Guido Molinari's pictorial universe, the theme and variations Blanc dominant offers a musical connection to the artist's paintings; a sounding tribute, the "recording of an enchantment."
With "Troisieme page apres le soleil", Sokolovic enters the universe of a short film by Theodore Ushev. The music for this frenetic tableau takes on quasi-narrative qualities. The final piece is a three-part fresco work, Sokolovic's "Commedia dell'arte", which includes a commission by the Quatuor Bozzini. The characters that share the stage of the Commedia and their archetypal personalities have fascinated Sokolovic since childhood, and the theatricality of the genre still vividly resonates with the composer's entire musical production: a direct and intelligible discourse, music that is at once rich, complex, bringing forth archetypes that can be understood and transposed to any age and any nation."-Emanuelle Majeau-Bettez