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Billaudot BEFFA KAROL - LE ROI QUI N AIMAIT PAS LA MUSIQUE - QUATUOR DE SAX ET PIANO

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In the autumn of 2017, Mathieu Laine submitted to me a text intended for children, The King Who Did Not Like Music, which he wanted me to transform into a musical tale. The version I then composed was for narrator, violin, cello, clarinet, and piano. We recorded it, Patrick Bruel, Renaud Capuçon, Edgar Moreau, Paul Meyer, and myself. It was published as a book-disc by Gallimard. The tale narrates the moods of a monarch with a jealous character reigning over a micro-society of four musicians to whom he gradually forbids playing their instruments, eventually forcing them into total silence. A period of desolation follows, but the arrival of a traveler and the advice of a fairy who suggests teaching the king to beat the drum will allow music to be reborn and the landscape to come alive again. My composition closely follows the storyline: serenity and gaiety gradually disturbed, a climate of melancholy, anxiety, and dejection, rebirth and regained liveliness. Wishing to respect the educational aim of this collection of book-discs, I presented at the beginning, instrument by instrument, the four subjects of the little kingdom. Although the piece was intended for a children's audience, I wanted a musical writing that pays tribute to the breathtaking technique of the three virtuoso instrumentalists and took pleasure in peppering it with all kinds of acrobatics: leaps, shifts, speed, rhythmic sways, extreme registers. Commissioned by the Saxo Voce ensemble, the present version is for narrator, saxophone quartet, and piano. It is not a new composition on Mathieu Laine's text, but an arrangement of the original version. It retains the acrobatic character and multiplies the musical challenges that these virtuoso saxophonists enjoy overcoming.
Referencia marca: GB10312
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