Spianato * Music is not only sound

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On this recording, which was produced in concert conditions, the Michel Tirabosco Trio invites us to discover various musical genres, yet all are linked by the energy and the emotion which live in them.
These three musicians, who are complimentary virtuosos, have successfully accomplished the task of transcribing for a trio compositions written respectively for a solo instrument or for an orchestra. The harmony between their three scores, the way in which they respond to each other, recapting alternatly the main voice, playing with the themes brings us to the heart of the music such as it is lived through by these three masters of the stage.

Michel Tirabosco brings real notes of nobless to the panpipes, transcending this instrument to a musical quality and a virtuosity very far removed from the usual folk stereotypes.
His two accomplices Franck Cottet-Dumoulin on the double bass and Jean-Marie Reboul on the piano bring him a counterpoint in perfect symbiosis, which is sometimes astonishing, but always conforms to the original spirit of this improbable trio and the played performed music.

Back to the origins

An allusion to the origins of the panpipes (and in particular the one used by Michel Tirabosco, specially made for him by Mr. Ion Preda), the programme of the disc is based on Romanian or gypsy tunes. Whether it be is written music as with Bartok's dances or in improvisations on traditional popular tunes, all the life, energy and emotion which has lived on through centuries can be found contained in this repertoire.

Proof if need be that the musical language defies borders and time, this fervour, which is a blend of enthusiasm and nostalgia can be found in the tangos of Piazzolla which open the album. Selected from among the thousand compositions by the famous Argentinian, Preparense and Lo que vendra let us penetrate into the heart of this music for which he was made the specialist. The emotion is even more present in Adios Nonino, written on the occasion of the death of his father, and in the extraordinary Oblivion.

Written jazz

Yet the voyage continues and we find ourselves in France with Claude Bolling and Jacques Ibert. Both refused the established barriers. A renouned jazzman Bolling let classical meet jazz in a "musical crossover" whose success we are forced to recognise, as in the Suite for flute which remained 530 weeks on the American "Billboard". Ibert brought on his side all the seriousess of a great composer to divertimento music, written for the theatre, dance or the cinema.
It can be noted that Bolling's flute suite is the only score written originally for flute, piano and double bass...

South spirit...

Our steps take us to Spanish music, another source of vitality and contained emotion, with composers like Isaac Albeniz or Enrique Granados whose Suites and Spanish dances, inspired from regional traditions, works wonder in the performance inspired by the Michel Tirabosco Trio.
After a detour by Brazil where Celso Machado offers us curiously soothing rhythms of a salsa which seems to soar above the stage, the disc finishing with traditional tsigane and Romanian music. Here all the energy and the virtuosity of these three musicians can be released. The first measures of Cintecul in particular plunge us into a world in which we would happily linger.

A word finally about the solo improvisations which close the page of this coloured album: not envisaged in the inital programme of the disc, they were impromptu during the breaks in the recording sessions. We wanted to share these moments of musical intimacy with you private meetings with the musicians who half-open the doors of their secret garden.

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