Taking on one of Shakespeare's most famous and frightening female characters, Lady Macbeth, in an 11-piece ensemble that include luminaries Liudas Mockunas, Samuel Blaser, and French guitarist Marc Ducret himself, using operatic form to focus his compositions on the emotional depth of his character, blending composed, improvised and sonic material into an exciting and unsettling work, drawing incredible performances from his players.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: France Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 3 Panels w/ booklet Recorded at MidiLive in Villetaneuse, Paris, France, in October, 2018, by Celine Grangey.
"How to "play" Macbeth with sounds? By proposing three successive musical sequences, all based on the same text: Lady Macbeth's monologue in Act V of the play. The first sequence, entrusted to the counter-tenor, immediately installs a poetics of the night: sleepwalker, Lady Macbeth begs the sleep to come - but Macbeth "killed the sleep" and the night became the hell of remorse. The second sequence, sung by the soprano, repeats the same text by illuminating it in a different way: by accentuating the horror of Lady M, the female voice prolongs the anguish of her monologue and her feeling of irreparable, implacable destiny . Finally, a third sequence repeats the remorse that continues to turn in the mind of Lady M, this time sung by the two voices, in an exploded version of the same text: repetition is the essence of remorse, without end or forgiveness possible."-Ayler (via Google translator)