{"id":1052577,"date":"2024-02-02T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/justin-bernard\/critique-cd-fire-flowers-leaf-music-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:51:31","slug":"critique-cd-fire-flowers-leaf-music-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/justin-bernard\/critique-cd-fire-flowers-leaf-music-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Critique CD | Fire-Flowers (Leaf Music, 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b><i>Luminous Voices\u00a0: Fire-Flowers<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b>Luminous Voices, ch\u0153ur; Timothy Schantz, chef; Cheryl Emery-Karapita et Leanne Regehr, pianos; Laura Brandt,<br \/>\nsoprano; Jonathon Adams, baryton.<br \/>\nLeaf Music 2024<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1052563 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Luminous-Voices-Fire-Flowers-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Luminous-Voices-Fire-Flowers-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Luminous-Voices-Fire-Flowers-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Luminous-Voices-Fire-Flowers-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Luminous-Voices-Fire-Flowers-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Luminous-Voices-Fire-Flowers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Luminous-Voices-Fire-Flowers-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Luminous-Voices-Fire-Flowers-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Luminous-Voices-Fire-Flowers-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Luminous Voices en est d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e0 son 4e album en 4 ans. Cette soci\u00e9t\u00e9 chorale de Calgary a fait de la musique contemporaine sa sp\u00e9cialit\u00e9. Avec <i>Fire-Flowers<\/i>, paru chez Leaf Music, elle renoue avec l\u2019\u0153uvre de Zachary Wadsworth, un compositeur auquel elle avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 consacr\u00e9 un album en 2016 (<i>The Far West<\/i>) et qui, depuis, s\u2019est joint au ch\u0153ur comme t\u00e9nor. Au programme, <i>Battle-Flags<\/i>, d\u2019apr\u00e8s un po\u00e8me de Walt Whitman, et <i>Fire-Flowers<\/i>, du nom d\u2019un po\u00e8me d\u2019E. Pauline Johnson. L\u2019un \u00e9voque la mort sur le champ de bataille; l\u2019autre, la lueur d\u2019espoir devant un spectacle de d\u00e9solation. Le <i>Requiem allemand <\/i>de Brahms sert ici de pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance avec, comme fil conducteur, le dur et parfois long processus de deuil.<\/p>\n<p>Le style de Wadsworth est caract\u00e9ris\u00e9 par des harmonies \u00e9th\u00e9r\u00e9es, s\u2019ouvrant comme des fleurs en \u00e9closion, sans en affecter la beaut\u00e9. Malgr\u00e9 ses ind\u00e9niables qualit\u00e9s, la musique ne semble pas tout \u00e0 fait coller au texte de Whitman, qui demeure bien plus marqu\u00e9 par le traumatisme de la guerre. L\u2019accompagnement au piano, dont l\u2019\u00e9criture est globalement moins euphonique, ach\u00e8ve sur un <i>fa<\/i> grave qui pr\u00e9pare id\u00e9alement l\u2019oreille \u00e0 l\u2019accord d\u2019ouverture du requiem de Brahms sur les mots de l\u2019\u00c9vangile selon saint Mathieu\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Heureux sont ceux qui pleurent, car ils seront consol\u00e9s.\u00a0\u00bb Les solistes livrent une bonne prestation, bien que le baryton Jonathon Adams manque d\u2019\u00e9toffe dans l\u2019aigu. On peut seulement regretter l\u2019absence d\u2019accompagnement orchestral qui aurait fait davantage ressortir la partition et offert un meilleur \u00e9quilibre avec la puissance du ch\u0153ur.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fire-Flowers<\/i> de Wadsworth fait r\u00e9entendre les deux solistes en dialogue avec le ch\u0153ur. La partie de piano est virtuose et pour ainsi dire \u00ab\u00a0enflamm\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb, en r\u00e9f\u00e9rence peut-\u00eatre au titre du morceau. On en appr\u00e9cie l\u2019originalit\u00e9, la fra\u00eecheur et la conclusion toute en douceur.<\/p>\n<h4>Playlist<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_91807\"  width=\"702\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"702\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AN8SOGSoFYk?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luminous Voices en est d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e0 son 4e album en 4 ans. Cette soci\u00e9t\u00e9 chorale de Calgary a fait de la musique contemporaine sa sp\u00e9cialit\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2811,"featured_media":1052566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"rating_form_position":"","rating_results_position":"","mr_structured_data_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17265,17038,17277,17255],"tags":[490,57672,56649,57674,57687],"class_list":{"0":"post-1052577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-contemporaine","8":"category-critiques-de-disques-et-livres","9":"category-musique-canadienne","10":"category-musique-chorale","11":"tag-brahms","12":"tag-canadian-fr","13":"tag-luminous-voices-fr","14":"tag-new-releases-fr-2","15":"tag-zachary-wadsworth-fr","16":"volume-volume-29","17":"issue-vol-29-issue-5-fr","18":"section-critiques"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Fire-Flowers.webp","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Fire-Flowers-300x144.webp","large":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Fire-Flowers.webp"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"ams_acf":[{"key":"le_volume","label":"Le volume","value":[]},{"key":"numero","label":"Num\u00e9ro","value":[]},{"key":"source_url","label":"Source URL","value":""},{"key":"author_name","label":"Author","value":""},{"key":"editchoice","label":"Edit Choice","value":[]},{"key":"is_cover_story","label":"Is Cover Story","value":[]},{"key":"performer_1","label":"Performer 1","value":""},{"key":"performer_2","label":"Performer 2","value":""},{"key":"other_info","label":"Other info","value":""},{"key":"ink_amazon","label":"Ink Amazon","value":""},{"key":"archambault","label":"archambault link","value":""},{"key":"price","label":"Price","value":""}],"multi-rating":{"mr_rating_results":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1052566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}