Samuel Reinhard - For 10 Musicians (CD)
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Samuel Reinhard returns to elsewhere music with 'For 10 Musicians', a four-part ensemble piece recorded in 2025 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. 4-Panel wallet with one disc.
CD release date: November 1, 2025. (*If you would also like to get the digital WAV 44/16 or FLAC 48/24 files, please note that in the message form on the ordering page.)
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TRACK LIST 1. For 10 Musicians I (12:24) 2. For 10 Musicians II (12:23) 3. For 10 Musicians III (12:22) 4. For 10 Musicians IV (12:21) CREDITS
compositions by Samuel Reinhard Paul Jacob Fossum — piano Gintė Preisaitė — piano Anders Banke — bass clarinet Francesco Bigoni — clarinet Henriette Groth — clarinet Carolyn Goodwin — bass clarinet Nicole Hogstrand — cello Pauline Hogstrand — viola Mika Persdotter — viola Vincent Yuen Ruiz — double bass recorded at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark by Pape Arce Bayona and assistant engineer Cintia Gómez Díez with special thanks to Jesper Andersen mixed by Samuel Reinhard mastered by Taku Unami cover art by Jeff Rossi CD designed and produced by Yuko Zama These recordings were made possible with the generous support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Swisslos Kultur Kanton Bern and Burgergemeinde Bern. ℗ © 2025 elsewhere music www.elsewheremusic.net |
Samuel Reinhard returns to elsewhere music with “For 10 Musicians,” a four-part ensemble piece recorded in 2025 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. In each movement, two pianists are assigned a single chord and asked to repeat it at a pace of their choosing for the duration of the piece. Between repetitions, the pianists play a short figure improvised from a set group of notes. They are joined by wind and string players—two clarinets, two bass clarinets, two violas, a cello, and a double bass—who choose and play individual notes from that same group. As in Reinhard’s previous work, the players are instructed to play as quietly as they can while still producing a sound, and are invited to take extended breaks, playing as much or as little as they would like within their assigned duration.
“For 10 Musicians” sees its ensemble unfurling what Reinhard calls his “non-directional” music with restraint and a keen sense of absence as a source of form. Reinhard and his players approach the veil between sound and silence, weaving music from sound on the brink of its nonexistence. Harmonic development is left largely to chance; notes accumulate and recede like indeterminate streaks of fading light marking a dark sky or small disturbances in a still body of water, sometimes pooling or dissolving together into quiet texture. Each movement constitutes a totality whose sense of stillness is colored in by subtle internal changes. Throughout, repetition is the architecture through which the music approaches a state of rest. Q&A with Samuel Reinhard about For 10 Musicians ニューヨーク在住のスイス人作曲家サミュエル・ラインハルトによる『10人の音楽家のために』は、2025年にコペンハーゲンのデンマーク王立音楽アカデミーで録音された4部構成のアンサンブル作品。本作は、2024年にリリースされたラインハルトの『For Piano and Shō』(elsewhere 032)に続く、elsewhere musicにおける彼の作品集の第二弾。
今回のアルバムでは、各楽章において2人のピアニストに単一の和音が割り当てられ、作品全体を通して各自のペースでそれを繰り返すよう指示される。反復の合間には、ピアニストは決められた音群から短いフレーズを即興で演奏する。これに管弦楽器奏者——クラリネット2名、バスクラリネット2名、ヴィオラ2名、チェロ1名、コントラバス1名——が加わり、同じ音のグループから自由に選んだ単音を演奏する。ラインハルトの過去の作品同様、奏者には「音を鳴らしながら可能な限り静かに演奏すること」が指示され、割り当てられた時間内で自由に演奏の時間や量を調整できるほか、長めの休符を挟むことも自由に認められている。 『10人の音楽家のために』では、ラインハルトが「方向性を持たない」と呼ぶ音楽を、アンサンブルが抑制した表現と鋭敏な「空白の感覚」を源泉として演奏していく。演奏者たちは、音と沈黙の間のヴェールに近づき、消え入りそうな音から音楽を紡ぎ出す。和声の発展はほぼ偶然に委ねられ、音は暗雲を刻む不確定な光の筋や、静かな水面の微かな揺らぎのように小さく変化しながら蓄積し、また消えていく。時にそれらは静かなテクスチャーへと集まり、あるいは溶け合う。４つの楽章は一つの大きな全体性を構成し、その静寂感は微妙な内部変化によって彩られる。全編を通じて、反復が音楽を静止状態へと導く構造となっている。 |
