Michel Fourgon: De Proche En Proche

An album entirely devoted to the trombone – that’s rather unusual! De proche en proche, Belgian composer Michel Fourgon’s second monographic disc on Cypres, features the instrument in a variety of configurations, in stages spanning some twenty years: from solo pieces (with Alain Pire as soloist) to concertos with symphony orchestra and choir (OPRL and Chœur de Chambre de Namur), via several chamber music repertoire arrangements and a surprising and delightful exchange between baroque (Les Agrémens) and modern (ORCW) chamber orchestras tuned a quarter tone apart.

Accompanied by Alain Pire, his long-time collaborator, Michel Fourgon explores all the resources of the instrument in a joyful kaleidoscope with an aesthetic rigour that never distances him from what he considers to be “his” voice at the heart of the music of his time.