{"id":1096439,"date":"2025-10-06T15:57:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/?p=1096439"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:58:24","slug":"critique-de-disque-alice-ho-dark-tales-duo-concertante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/john-gilks\/critique-de-disque-alice-ho-dark-tales-duo-concertante\/","title":{"rendered":"Critique de Disque | Alice Ho <em>Dark Tales<\/em>, Duo Concertante"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b><i>Ho : Dark Tales<\/i><\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duo Concertante\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navona Records, 2025<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Les <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dark Tales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> d\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/newswire\/newswire-city-opera-vancouvers-chinatown-now-opening-in-september-at-vancouver-playhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alice Ho<\/a> rassemblent cinq morceaux pour violon et piano. Chaque composition est bas\u00e9e sur une histoire de fant\u00f4mes de Terre-Neuve de la collection des histoires du po\u00e8te Tom Dawe, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Old Man\u2019s Winter Night<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. La musique est interpr\u00e9t\u00e9e par le <a href=\"https:\/\/duoconcertante.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duo Concertante<\/a> \u2013 Nancy Dahn au violon et Timothy Steeves au piano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La musique \u00e0 programme est une cr\u00e9ature un peu \u00e9trange\u00a0: elle ne raconte pas vraiment d\u2019histoires. Elle peut toutefois \u00e9voquer une atmosph\u00e8re, et <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dark Tales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> le fait tr\u00e8s bien. Sans aide pr\u00e9alable, serais-je capable de dire que la deuxi\u00e8me pi\u00e8ce, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landwash Spirits<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, parle de fant\u00f4mes de marins noy\u00e9s\u00a0? Je ne pense pas, mais je ressens comme une ambiance de catastrophe et de d\u00e9sespoir et je vois comme une mer agit\u00e9e par la temp\u00eate, le tout aliment\u00e9 d\u2019une vision de vent hurlant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C\u2019est la m\u00eame chose avec les quatre autres morceaux. Chacun a son propre paysage sonore adapt\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019histoire, paysage cr\u00e9\u00e9 en utilisant presque toute la gamme sonore des deux instruments. Le piano peut \u00eatre \u00e9th\u00e9r\u00e9, marteler bruyamment comme une percussion ou juste jouer toute une s\u00e9rie de notes. Quant au violon, au-del\u00e0 des notes fl\u00e9chies et pinc\u00e9es, il en sort des sons ressemblant \u00e0 des couinements et des raclements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alice Ho d\u00e9ploie cette palette de sons de mani\u00e8re \u00e9clectique, allant d\u2019un genre m\u00e9lodique, en passant par l\u2019atonal jusqu\u2019au pas vraiment \u00ab\u00a0musical\u00a0\u00bb. Quand on voit que deux instruments peuvent fa\u00e7onner tout un univers sonore de la sorte, c\u2019est impressionnant. La longueur de ces cinq morceaux varie entre 10 et 14 minutes, soit environ une heure de musique au total.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L\u2019enregistrement a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9 en d\u00e9cembre 2024 au D.F. Cook Hall \u00e0 Saint-Jean. Il est tr\u00e8s net et particuli\u00e8rement d\u00e9taill\u00e9, en tout cas dans la version num\u00e9rique 96\u00a0KHz\/24bit que j\u2019ai \u00e9cout\u00e9e. Il ne sortira qu\u2019en version num\u00e9rique. Il sera disponible sans perte aux r\u00e9solutions 44,1 kHz\/16 bits et 96 kHz\/24 bits, ainsi qu\u2019en version MP3. L\u2019\u00e9tiquette a pour habitude de ne pas proposer de livret. En revanche, une page est d\u00e9di\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019album sur <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.navonarecords.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.navonarecords.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, site qui comprend \u00e9galement des notes et des biographies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traduction\u00a0: Mathilde Wahl<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dark Tales: V. The House in the Drook\" width=\"702\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EiMerwp6Vkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ho : Dark Tales\u00a0 Duo Concertante\u00a0 Navona Records, 2025 Les Dark Tales d\u2019Alice Ho rassemblent cinq morceaux pour violon et piano. Chaque composition est bas\u00e9e sur une histoire de fant\u00f4mes de Terre-Neuve de la collection des histoires du po\u00e8te Tom Dawe, An Old Man\u2019s Winter Night. La musique est interpr\u00e9t\u00e9e par le Duo Concertante \u2013<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more hi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/john-gilks\/critique-de-disque-alice-ho-dark-tales-duo-concertante\/\" title=\"Continuer\">Continuer<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":39309,"featured_media":1096437,"comment_status":"closed","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":[17038],"tags":[63988,54852,63987,46316],"class_list":{"0":"post-1096439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-critiques-de-disques-et-livres","8":"tag-alice-ho-fr","9":"tag-alice-ping-yee-ho-fr","10":"tag-duo-concertante-fr","11":"tag-navona-records","12":"type-critique-de-disque","13":"volume-volume-31","14":"issue-vol-31-issue-2-fr","15":"section-critiques"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dark-Tales-cover.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dark-Tales-cover-300x144.jpg","large":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dark-Tales-cover.jpg"},"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\/1096439"}],"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\/39309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096465,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096439\/revisions\/1096465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}