Musicien et compositeur majeur de notre paysage musical belge, Jean-Paul Dessy nous livre Requiems, tel un rite funéraire qui nous invite à entrer dans l’éternité.
Jean-Paul Dessy, muzikant en belangrijk componist binnen het Belgische muzieklandschap, brengt ons Requiems, als een begrafenisritueel die ons wenkt om de eeuwigheid binnen te stappen.
in Choir & Organ (Jan, 2019)
Belgian composer and cellist Jean-Paul Dessy (b.1963) views concerts (and presumably recordings) as liturgy – playing an instrument is a means of meditating, with composition as a kind of prophecy and sound itself as a revelation. His seven-movement Requiems is not a conventional Requiem setting: rather, it takes texts chosen by the writer-theologian Jean-Yves Leloup from different spiritual traditions. Recorded live in January 2018, the Estonian Philharmonic Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra conducted by Risto Joost give a moving account of this largely contemplative, gentle work, which often engenders a hypnotic quality. Dessy is the soloist in the pieces for solo cello. …
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