Pascal Nègre, the former boss of Universal, who did not have his tongue in his pocket, used to say that the classics did it "
ch ...
" And this because the performers always played the same thing: the umpteenth sonata by Mozart, Beethoven's endless symphony ...
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But times have changed: in a few months, several discs stamped "
classic
" are playing music from today. We have already mentioned that of guitarist Jérémy Jouve, pianist Thomas Valverde or even that of Thomas Enhco. Here is a new album released by Continuo Classics which reflects the dynamism of today's so-called classical music: that of the composer Dominique Probst.
This former first prize in percussion at the Paris Conservatory is little known to the general public. Coming from a family of musicians and actors, he nevertheless composed about thirty works played by the best orchestras. The album bears witness to the years that have passed -
“a long lonely road”,
as he puts it. We find there his bewitching
Origine du monde
composed in 2006, or his
Nocturne for a jazz soloist
with the Philharmonic orchestra of Radio France and the late violinist Didier Lockwood, then at the height of his art, captured during an unprecedented recording.
In this disc, Dominique Probst also pays homage to his parents, Gisèle Casadesus and Lucien Pascal, through a delicate and evocative bias - the setting to music of Charles Baudelaire's poem,
La Mort des amants
.