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| Label Fondamenta |
UPC 0190758276526 |
Catalogue number FON 1802031 |
Release date 04 May 2018 |
"The stunning trio immediately sets in with a captivating romantic theme that sways back and forth between the violin and the cello."
Kerk & Leven, 23-10-2018The pieces of this disc - two cycles of melodies, two trios and a string quartet written between 2014 and 2017 - resonate to form a united and coherent frame that paints a portrait of the work of this young composer to the already brilliant course . To do this, he surrounded himself with some of the best musicians of his generation, such as Yan Levionnois (ffff Télérama for his Bach recording), Guillaume Vincent and Jeanne Crousaud. The four members of the Debussy Quartet, benevolent elders, also officiate in his String Quartet, his first, located in direct line with the Schnittke or Olivier Greif quartets. Clear of any form of chapel and ideology, Matton definitely turns the page of the last century. His Songs on poems by Michel Houellebecq embark us in a centrifugal whirlpool that leaves no voice. At the end of the album, his trio and his cycle on poems by Philippe Jaccottet are as many "scrapes administered with the jubilation of a willingly tyrannical satyr", as the author of the libretto so aptly writes.
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Jules Matton signs here his first disc. A graduate of The Juilliard School of Music and Dance in 2013, his former teacher, John Corigliano, deems him “remarkably talented”, with “impeccable technique”. He received grants from the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation, the Catholic University of Paris and, in 2015, the Banque Populaire Foundation. Having completed a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy, he is also praised by composers such as Thierry Escaich, Philippe Hersant, and Nicolas Bacri. His music has been performed by various musicians: Victor Julien-Laferrière, Bruno Philippe, Jerôme Pernoo, Jodie Devos, the National Ile-de-France Orchestra and many others.
His first opera — The Odyssey — is premiered in April 2018 at the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne, where he is in residence since 2017.
Yan Levionnois obtained the first prize at the André Navarra and In Memoriam Rostropovitch international competitions, and was awarded two special prizes at the last Rostropovitch Competition, including that for the most remarkable personality. He is the Adami 2013 classical revelation, and the prize winner of the Banque Populaire and Safran Foundations. He has given solo performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under conductors such as Daniele Gatti, Dimitry Sitkovetsky, Jacek Kaspszyk, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Heinrich Schiff and Arie Van Beek.
His first solo cd, “Cello Solo”, was released in February 2013 for Fondamenta, and obtained the prestigious ffff of Télérama magazine. His discography also includes a recording of Rachmaninov's second Elegiac Trio with Renaud Capuçon and Denis Kozhukhin, in the “Martha Argerich and Friends” festival, for EMI classics, as well as “Pierrots Lunaires”, a violin and cello duets cd with violinist Mélanie Clapiès, released in 2014 for Fondamenta.
He has many chamber music partners, notably Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, David Grimal, Antoine Tamestit, Gérard Caussé, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley, Brigitte Engerer, David Guerrier, Emmanuel Pahud, Richard Galliano and the Ebène Quartet. An ardent defender of the music of his time, he has worked with composers such as Kryštof Mařatka, Jonathan Harvey, Richard Dubugnon, Martin Bresnick, and Eric Tanguy.
Passionate about Arthur Rimbaud’s poetry, he created Illuminations, a music and poetry show, in which he is both cellist and narrator.
Yan Levionnois began studying the cello with his father before continuing in Paris with Marc Coppey and Philippe Muller, Oslo with Truls Mørk, and New York with Timothy Eddy. He also attended master-classes with Gary Hoffman, Heinrich Schiff, Natalia Gutman, Frans Helmerson, Steven Isserlis, and Natalia Shakhovskaïa.
Jules Matton signs here his first disc. A graduate of The Juilliard School of Music and Dance in 2013, his former teacher, John Corigliano, deems him “remarkably talented”, with “impeccable technique”. He received grants from the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation, the Catholic University of Paris and, in 2015, the Banque Populaire Foundation. Having completed a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy, he is also praised by composers such as Thierry Escaich, Philippe Hersant, and Nicolas Bacri. His music has been performed by various musicians: Victor Julien-Laferrière, Bruno Philippe, Jerôme Pernoo, Jodie Devos, the National Ile-de-France Orchestra and many others.
His first opera — The Odyssey — is premiered in April 2018 at the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne, where he is in residence since 2017.
The stunning trio immediately sets in with a captivating romantic theme that sways back and forth between the violin and the cello.
Kerk & Leven, 23-10-2018
We discover a composer who writes powerful melodies and who, although he ventures to 'heavy' themes, never happens to be bombastic. The vocals are excellent as are the various instrumentalists.
Kerk & Leven, 23-7-2018
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