{"id":1107593,"date":"2026-01-23T13:09:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/norman-lebrecht\/lhebdo-lebrecht-american-tapestry-signum\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:20:23","slug":"lhebdo-lebrecht-american-tapestry-signum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/norman-lebrecht\/lhebdo-lebrecht-american-tapestry-signum\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Hebdo Lebrecht | <em>American Tapestry<\/em> (Signum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">Au terme d\u2019une semaine marqu\u00e9e par les abus de pouvoir am\u00e9ricains, la derni\u00e8re chose que je souhaitais entendre \u00e9tait une musique sentimentale typiquement am\u00e9ricaine interpr\u00e9t\u00e9e par un quatuor \u00e0 cordes du Delaware. Il y a une raison pour laquelle les entreprises s\u2019implantent dans le Delaware. L\u2019\u00c9tat applique un taux d\u2019imposition de 2 %, dispose de tribunaux favorables aux entreprises et ne pose aucune question. Incroyable.<\/p>\n<p>Mais on ne sait jamais ce qu\u2019un enregistrement va r\u00e9v\u00e9ler. Celui-ci pr\u00e9sente quatre styles sans rapport entre eux. Le premier quatuor \u00e0 cordes de Samuel Barber est connu pour son mouvement central m\u00e9lancolique, l\u2019<em>Adagio<\/em> de Barber. Les mouvements ext\u00e9rieurs sont riches en m\u00e9lodies. Tous les compositeurs am\u00e9ricains enviaient le talent de l\u2019oncle Sam Barber pour la m\u00e9lodie.<\/p>\n<p>Le musicien jazz Wynton Marsalis puise son inspiration dans le folklore de la Nouvelle-Orl\u00e9ans, et ce n\u2019est pas pour d\u00e9plaire : c\u2019est une musique authentique, fruit d\u2019un v\u00e9ritable creuset de styles. Le th\u00e8me de quatre minutes compos\u00e9 par John Williams est empreint de nostalgie pour une Am\u00e9rique qui n\u2019a jamais exist\u00e9. Et le troisi\u00e8me quatuor \u00e0 cordes d\u2019Erich Wolfgang Korngold, r\u00e9fugi\u00e9 \u00e0 Hollywood pour fuir Hitler, est une complainte pour une Vienne perdue qui \u00e9tait en grande partie le fruit de l\u2019imagination musicale. D\u2019une mani\u00e8re ou d\u2019une autre, cet album h\u00e9t\u00e9roclite regorge d\u2019aveuglement collectif.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1107590 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-1.jpg 1417w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>Mais les musiciens du <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calidorestringquartet.com\/\">Quatuor Calidore<\/a> jouent comme des anges d\u00e9sincarn\u00e9s. Tirant leur nom de l\u2019\u0153uvre <em>The Faerie Queene<\/em> d\u2019Edmund Spenser et ayant fait leurs armes en tant qu\u2019artistes du <em>BBC New-Gen<\/em>, ils transcendent leur th\u00e8me douteux pour offrir une heure de plaisir et dix minutes de remplissage (je ne dirai pas lesquelles). Leur interpr\u00e9tation du quatuor de Korngold est particuli\u00e8rement exaltante, et \u00e0 peine am\u00e9ricaine. Ou plut\u00f4t, elle appartient \u00e0 une Am\u00e9rique meilleure, pass\u00e9e et peut-\u00eatre future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Traduction : A. Venne<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Au terme d\u2019une semaine marqu\u00e9e par les abus de pouvoir am\u00e9ricains, la derni\u00e8re chose que je souhaitais entendre \u00e9tait une musique sentimentale typiquement am\u00e9ricaine interpr\u00e9t\u00e9e par un quatuor \u00e0 cordes du Delaware. Il y a une raison pour laquelle les entreprises s\u2019implantent dans le Delaware. L\u2019\u00c9tat applique un taux d\u2019imposition de 2 %, dispose de<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more hi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/norman-lebrecht\/lhebdo-lebrecht-american-tapestry-signum\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2760,"featured_media":1107589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"rating_form_position":"","rating_results_position":"","mr_structured_data_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57533,34360],"tags":[64818,49032],"class_list":{"0":"post-1107593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jazz","8":"category-lhebdo-lebrecht","9":"tag-american-tapestry-fr","10":"tag-calidore-string-quartet-fr","11":"type-critique-de-disque"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-1024x1024.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-300x300.jpg","large":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SIGCD970-Cover-1024x1024.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\/1107593"}],"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\/2760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107595,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107593\/revisions\/1107595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}