{"id":1113617,"date":"2026-04-03T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/john-gilks\/critique-de-disque-mark-abel-4-4-2-simone-mcintosh-delos\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:41:05","slug":"critique-de-disque-mark-abel-4-4-2-simone-mcintosh-delos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/john-gilks\/critique-de-disque-mark-abel-4-4-2-simone-mcintosh-delos\/","title":{"rendered":"Critique de disque | Mark Abel : <en>4.4.2<\/em>, Simone McIntosh, Delos"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b><i>Mark Abel\u00a0: 4.4.2<\/i><\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simone McIntosh, mezzo-soprano; Michael McMahon, piano; Alice K. Dade, fl\u00fbte et piccolo; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano; Jennifer Choi, violon; Jonah Kim, violoncelle; Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delos, 2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">Le compositeur californien <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markabelmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Abel<\/a> vient de faire para\u00eetre <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4.4.2<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, un album de quatre \u0153uvres, chacune mettant en vedette un duo de musiciens. La premi\u00e8re est un cycle de quatre m\u00e9lodies pour mezzo-soprano et piano dont les textes adapt\u00e9s par le compositeur sont inspir\u00e9s du feuilleton<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> As the World Turns<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> qui lui a aussi donn\u00e9 le titre. Le d\u00e9but de la premi\u00e8re chanson <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rising High<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> pourrait donner l\u2019impression qu\u2019il s\u2019agit d\u2019un autre cycle sans grande valeur de m\u00e9lodies am\u00e9ricaines, mais elle gagne rapidement en complexit\u00e9 et en int\u00e9r\u00eat avec une ligne vocale souvent th\u00e9\u00e2trale et une r\u00e9elle originalit\u00e9 au piano, tr\u00e8s bien rendues par <a href=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/newswire\/meredith-wohlgemuth-et-simone-mcintosh-gagnent-cmim-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simone McIntosh<\/a> et Michael McMahon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samantha Sketches<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> est tout aussi imaginatif. Cette \u0153uvre pour fl\u00fbte (piccolo dans le deuxi\u00e8me morceau) et piano propose trois morceaux. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Best of Intentions<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> est vif, m\u00e9lodieux et novateur; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skyward<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> est plus introspectif et <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Urgent Manner<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> est plus \u00e9toff\u00e9 et insistant. L\u2019interpr\u00e9tation d\u2019Alice K. Dade \u00e0 la fl\u00fbte et de Ieva Jokubaviciute au piano est convaincante.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Symbiotica<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> marie ce qui l\u2019est rarement\u00a0: le violon (Jennifer Choi) et l\u2019orgue (le compositeur). Si la combinaison de deux instruments donne de bons r\u00e9sultats dans une \u0153uvre de deux mouvements \u2013 preuve des connaissances approfondies d\u2019Abel dans les expressions musicales plus populaires \u2013 ce n\u2019est pas le cas pour les autres sur le disque. Ce morceau espi\u00e8gle et un peu jazz\u00e9 est plut\u00f4t divertissant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La derni\u00e8re \u0153uvre, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Door Opens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, pour violoncelle (Jonah Kim) et piano (Keisuke Nakagoshi) pr\u00e9sente un premier mouvement introspectif et plut\u00f4t magnifique et un second d\u2019une complexit\u00e9 rythmique consid\u00e9rable. Il s\u2019agit de musique tonale, mais d\u2019une belle cr\u00e9ativit\u00e9 et parfaitement bien interpr\u00e9t\u00e9e.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Les enregistrements effectu\u00e9s entre mai\u00a02024 et avril\u00a02025 dans plusieurs studios d\u2019Am\u00e9rique du Nord sont d\u2019une excellente qualit\u00e9. Ils sont offerts en CD, fichier MP3 et fichier num\u00e9rique sans perte en r\u00e9solutions de 44,1\u00a0kHz et 16\u00a0bits ou 96\u00a0kHz et 24\u00a0bits. Pour cette critique, nous avons utilis\u00e9 la version haute r\u00e9solution. L\u2019album comprend un livret avec notes, biographies et autres textes; l\u2019illustration de la page couverture inspir\u00e9e par Kandinsky a \u00e9t\u00e9 cr\u00e9\u00e9e par l\u2019IA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Il s\u2019agit donc d\u2019un projet de 72\u00a0minutes de musique de chambre tonale qui, sans r\u00e9volutionner le genre, s\u2019\u00e9coute bien gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une excellente \u00e9quipe de musiciens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Traduction\u00a0: V\u00e9ronique Frenette<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simone McIntosh Sings Mark Abel: &#039;Oh, What a Glorious Thing&#039;\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OBt-Yt6Js0k?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>Mark Abel\u00a0: 4.4.2\u00a0 Simone McIntosh, mezzo-soprano; Michael McMahon, piano; Alice K. Dade, fl\u00fbte et piccolo; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano; Jennifer Choi, violon; Jonah Kim, violoncelle; Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano. Delos, 2026 Le compositeur californien Mark Abel vient de faire para\u00eetre 4.4.2, un album de quatre \u0153uvres, chacune mettant en vedette un duo de musiciens. La premi\u00e8re est<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more hi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/john-gilks\/critique-de-disque-mark-abel-4-4-2-simone-mcintosh-delos\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":39309,"featured_media":1113614,"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":[394],"tags":[65609,65606,36923,61638,65614,65607,65610,65611,65612,65613,65608,47813,33067],"class_list":{"0":"post-1113617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-musique-classique","8":"tag-alice-k-dade-fr","9":"tag-american-fr","10":"tag-art-song-fr","11":"tag-classique-contemporain","12":"tag-contemporary-art-song-fr","13":"tag-delos-fr","14":"tag-ieva-jokubaviciute-fr","15":"tag-jennifer-choi-fr","16":"tag-jonah-kim-fr","17":"tag-keisuke-nakagoshi-fr","18":"tag-mark-abel-fr","19":"tag-michael-mcmahon-fr","20":"tag-simone-mcintosh-fr","21":"type-critique-de-disque","22":"volume-volume-31","23":"issue-vol-31-issue-6-fr","24":"section-critiques"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Abel.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Abel-300x144.jpg","large":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Abel.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":""},{"key":"volume","label":"Volume","value":[]},{"key":"number","label":"Number","value":[]},{"key":"group_select","label":"Group","value":""}],"multi-rating":{"mr_rating_results":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113617"}],"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=1113617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114321,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113617\/revisions\/1114321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}