THE NEW CD OF THE PRIMA VISTA QUARTET
  
 
 
  Three french composers:
Gréco Casadesus, Pierre-André Athané and Baudime Jam
 
 
Three French composers, each with their own original poetic universe, present here a selection of recent works from their chamber-music catalogue.
Each one of them,  in his own way,  demonstrates his concern to re-establish a link between the public and contemporary music,  
avoiding both ivory-tower academicism and artistic concession.
 
 
The Prima Vista Quartet's guest artists are :
Lys Nordet (soprano), Hermine Huguenel (mezzo-soprano) and Daniel Grimonprez (double-bass).
  
   
 
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    Gréco CASADESUS

Suppléments d'âme
(2008)
for soprano, string quartet and double bass		 Pierre-André ATHANÉ

String quartet n°1
(2008)		 Baudime JAM

Les Horizons perdus
(2007)
for mezzo-soprano and string quartet		    
   
1. Le second souffle (3'30)
2. Lumières cardioïdes (4'30)
3. Trois tentatives vers la source (3'49)
4. Pour la cime des arbres (5’47)
5. Pour chaque jour qui passe (6’24)
6. Pour le ballet des ombres (5’08)
7. Miracles fugitifs (5’03)
8. Le verger mystérieux (4’53)
9. Sous la lune argentée (8’15)
10. La ronce des regrets (6’09)
11. À la fontaine des amants (8’36)
   
   
Lys NORDET , soprano
Daniel GRIMONPREZ , contrebasse 		 
Hermine HUGUENEL,
mezzo soprano
    
    Biography of Gréco Casadesus Biography of P-A. Athané Biography of Baudime Jam    
    Website of Gréco Casadesus Website of Pierre-André Athané Website of Prima Vista    
 
 
 
Recording at Clermont-Ferrand (la Maison de l'Eléphant) - february 2009
 
   
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Biographies
  
 
Gréco CASADESUS
  
 


Great families of artists pose the problem of a cultural heritage from which it is necessary, sooner or another, to free oneself whilst preserving the essence and future. Gréco, who, owing to a surprising interval in generations, would find himself to be 50 years younger than his prestigious nephew or first cousins, could not elude this observation: it was necessary to blaze new trails.
Before creating, Gréco produced: at the age of 22, he was artistic director at EMI-Pathé Marconi and recorded more than 200 discs with some of the greatest international artists of the time, including Georges Prêtre, Leonard Bernstein, Mstislav Rostropovich, Lorin Maazel, Colin Davis, Aldo Ciccolini, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Dervaux, Cyprien Katsaris, Placido Domingo, Jean Martinon and François-René Duchable, An unfailing lesson in music and sensibility.
But he was a born creator and, at thirty, that need became flagrant: he wrote and recorded Voyage Immobile , his first album. However, what fascinated him above all was the influence that music can exert on writing for film and stage. His earliest experiences, largely devoted to the theatre (Silvia Montfort, Jean Danet & 'Les Tréteaux de France', Jacques Mauclair & the Théâtre du Marais - a 'Molière' award for L'Avare in 1989), were followed by numerous contributions for television and cinema: in all, approximately 70 musical creations, amongst which we can mention Bob Swaim's The Climb with John Hurt, Ray Jafelice's Babar, roi des éléphants and Serge Moati's Jésus.
Claire Huynen's Marie et le vin was a unique experiment: for the first time, a novel was accompanied by original music that, like a film score, contributed its own musical dimension.
In 2001, he wrote the music for the restored version of Henri Diamant-Berger's 1921 film masterpiece, The Three Musketeers , based on the Alexandre Dumas novel.
A unifier, impassioned by his work as a composer, he founded and presided over (2002-2005) the UCMF (Union of Music for Films Composers) whose role is to reveal and defend the specificities of a profession undergoing a major transformation.
At the same time, his appetences as a producer having never left him, he has created Opus Millésime, a catalogue of production and publication dedicated to film and classical music. One of this label's vocations is to show off to best advantage the musical heritage bequeathed by the famous pianist-composer Robert Casadesus (1899-1972), his first cousin, through new recordings and publications of his works, as well as a website of reference (www.robertcasadesus.com).

  
 
Pierre-André ATHANE
 
 

Pierre-André ATHANÉ was born in Angers where he studied piano at the Conservatoire before moving to Paris. He has a keen interest in harmony, orchestration, theatre, performance - and composition, for which he is best known.
His melodic, sensitive, and sometimes nostalgic, music is often heard on stage, radio and television. His best known soundtracks include the French television series Thalassa «Colours of the Sea », the film « Adèle and Kamel » by Vincent Monnet. He also created the strings orchestration for the feature film « Augustin roi du kung fu» by Anne Fontaine.
He has three CDs to his name and has also written a substantial body of « library music » and featured on numerous joint productions. These projects have led to his music being used in advertisements, films and television productions all over the world.
In addition to his music for film and television, Pierre-André has written compositions for orchestra and chamber orchestra, which are regularly heard in concert and he has five musicals to his name, which have featured on stages in Europe and Canada.
He is a member of UCMF (the Union of composers of film music) and is on the committee of FFACE (the Federation of film and audiovisual composers of Europe.


 
 
Baudime JAM
  
 

Baudime Jam Iis violist, musicologist and composer.
He did his musical studies in France (Paris), in Germany, and in the U.S.A. (University of Norman) where he obtained a Master degree in several classes : chamber music, conducting, musicology and composition.
His university studies include also French literature, History, Philisophy, Aesthetic, and Linguistic at the University of Clermont-Ferrand where he obtained a master with his memoir about the Salons of Diderot.
From 1993 to 1997, he worked as a radio producer for radio France, both in Clermont and Paris, and from 1998 to 2000 for RCF 63. He is a frequent lecturer in musicology, and writes CD liner notes for various labels, articles and essays in many occasions. His biographye of George Onslow was described as "the definitive Onslow book" by the Cobbett Chamber Music Journal.
Between 1994 and 1997, he was the artistic director of the Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra, and his assignments as a conductor included also concerts in Warsaw and Praha.
In 1997, he founded the Prima Vista quartet of which he is also the violist. Working as a full time quartet player, he gave more than 650 concerts in France, Europe, the USA and Africa.
As a composer, member of the SACEM and the UCMF, he is the author of concert works, musical tales, silent movies scores (of which he is a specialist), and also many transcriptions, arrangements and orchestrations.

 




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