Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion)
Hermann Kretschmar (piano)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Lucas Vis (conductor)
Johannes Kalitzke (conductor)
Ensemble Modern
Brad Lubman (conductor)
The singularity of Gérard Pesson's music in the contemporary landscape is doubtless due to a highly intense relationship with culture. Like the guided visit of a studio where references, fetishes and found objects rub shoulders: a chord from Messiaen, an Ethiopian rhythm, a Scarlatti sonata that would already prefigures Beethoven, all that beneath the gaze of a portrait of Bruckner...
Martin Kaltenecker
Born on January 17th, 1958, Gérard Pesson studied at the Sorbonne and then at the Paris CNSM, where he studied composition with Ivo Malec, orchestration with Marius Constant and analysis with Betsy Jolas. In 1986, he founded a contemporary music publication entitled Entretemps. From 1990 to 1992 [...]