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I enjoyed everything about this CD: the ever interesting and evocative music, the Delangles’ stellar performances that the composer must surely consider definitive, the well-recorded sonics... — Fanfare, September/October 2021 More…

Release Date: 8th Jan 2021
Catalogue No: BIS2490
Label: BIS
Length: 64 minutes

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Leroux, P: SPP

Work length12:04

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Claude Delangle (soprano saxophone), Odile Catelin-Delangle (piano)

Leroux, P: AMA

Work length15:56

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Odile Catelin-Delangle (piano)

Track length7:13

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II.

Track length8:43

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Leroux, P: Conca reatina (Ruban de Möbius)

Work length14:24

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Claude Delangle (soprano saxophone)

Leroux, P: Répéter... Opposer

Work length6:34

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Odile Catelin-Delangle (piano)

Leroux, P: Dense... Englouti

Work length6:26

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Odile Catelin-Delangle (piano)

Leroux, P: Noûs

Work length9:35

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Claude Delangle (soprano saxophone), Odile Catelin-Delangle (piano)

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The collaboration between composer Philippe Leroux and the husband-and-wife team of Claude and Odile Delangle began in the early 1990s and has grown ever closer over the years. In October 2019 the three met up again for a few intense days, in order to record Noûs, a programme of works for soprano saxophone and for solo piano. The disc is bookended by two duos for the instruments – the opening SPP a reworking by the composer of an earlier score, and the closing Noûs that Leroux wrote for the Delangles only a few months before the recording. In both of these – albeit in different ways – the composer exploresa couple of his favourite principles, namely those of continuity and transformation. Between them we hear works from the past decade, beginning with AMA for solo piano, from 2009. The other two piano works, Répéter… Opposer and Dense… Englouti are both tributes to Claude Debussy, a composer who occupies an important place in the musical universe of Philippe Leroux. At the centre of the disc, finally, is the highly virtuosic Conca Reatina for soprano saxophone. Loosely inspired by the contours of the mountains surrounding the Rieti Valley (Conca reatina), the piece is a dizzying sonic Möbius strip which keeps returning the listener to his point of departure.

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September/October 2021

I enjoyed everything about this CD: the ever interesting and evocative music, the Delangles’ stellar performances that the composer must surely consider definitive, the well-recorded sonics that BIS offers. The disc is simply a must-own for anyone interested in the music of our era, and not just for saxophone or piano enthusiasts—although they, too, will find it indispensable.

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