This release by French-Canadian violinist Angèle Dubeau falls into a category that hardly existed at the turn of the century, but now has grown increasingly common: the solo recording devoted to music by minimalist composers. These have grown more common, but Dubeau and her all-female ensemble La Pietà have made it into something of a specialty, releasing albums devoted to John Adams, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, and Ludovico Einaudi. This one, taking up music by Max Richter, adds a sort of double wrinkle, for some of Richter's ...
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This release by French-Canadian violinist Angèle Dubeau falls into a category that hardly existed at the turn of the century, but now has grown increasingly common: the solo recording devoted to music by minimalist composers. These have grown more common, but Dubeau and her all-female ensemble La Pietà have made it into something of a specialty, releasing albums devoted to John Adams, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, and Ludovico Einaudi. This one, taking up music by Max Richter, adds a sort of double wrinkle, for some of Richter's compositions are based on (or, to use his word, "recomposed") existing works, some quite familiar. Thus making a violin version is a sort of double recomposition. This said, the album is consistent with what Dubeau has done in the past. A major unsung contributor is her co-arranger François Vallières; the two neatly answer the question of how you can make a virtuoso violin album out of the generally basic, melodic material of minimalism. Dubeau's violin weaves gracefully around the...
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