Cat No: 4761635
Format: CD

CD1: || gigante golia, for voice & instruments. 280 bars for clarinet. 7 Crimes of Love, for voice, clarinet & percussion. 5 Couplets, for soprano & contrabass clarinet. À bout de bras, for 2 clarinets. Simulacre I, for soprano, clarinet & percussion.
CD2: Simulacre III, for soprano, 2 clarinets & marimba. Simulacre IV, for bass clarinet. 4 pièces fébriles, for marimba & piano. Trio for clarinet, cello & piano. Monomanies, for solo voice.

Ensemble Accroche Note: Françoise Kubler (sop.), Armand Angster (cl.), Emmanuel Séjourné (perc.), Michèle Renoul & Brigitte Foccroulle (pfs.), Christophe Beau (vc.), Denis Tempô & Olivier Vivarès (cls.).

Two recent releases ('Machinations', on ACCORD 4729162, and 'The Hamlet-Machine', on CYPRÈS CYP5607) have shown that the music of Georges Aperghis is essentially theatrical, and this holds true even when it is written, as here, on a smaller scale. Ensemble Accroche Note have developed an extraordinary affinity with Aperghis's music over many years, and this double album includes a number of works written for and dedicated to them. All are first recordings.