Musiques Nouvelles
Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles (previously: Ensemble Musique Nouvelle ) is a Belgian ensemble devoted to avant-garde music.
history
The "Ensemble Musique Nouvelle" was initiated by the composer and conductor Pierre Bartholomée , who in December 1962 gathered a number of performing musicians around him. These included Bartholomée's wife Francette (harp), Sigiswald Kuijken and Janine Rubinlicht (violin), Marleen Kuijken-Thiers (viola), Charles Mc Guire (flute), Robert Kohnen (piano), Wieland Kuijken (cello) and the composer and pianist Henri Pousseur . After months of preparation, Pousseur's “Respons” was performed first, and the program also included the second sonata by the then largely unknown French composer Pierre Boulez .
Over time, the ensemble has welcomed musicians such as the composer Philippe Boesmans , the violinist Georges-Elie Octors, the flutist Berten D'Hollander , the conductor and clarinetist Walter Boeykens , the conductor and violinist Patrick Davin , the composer and organist Bernard Foccroulle and others to attract Belgian musicians of international standing. Compositions by the members of the ensemble were performed, but the program also included works by Berio, Cage, Scelsi, Schnittke, Stockhausen, Radulescu, Takemitsu and Xenakis, some of which were presented as world premieres.
A smaller offshoot of the formation was the Alarius Ensemble , which from 1967 to 1972 increasingly turned to historical performance practice and assumed a pioneering position in this area.
Current
After the ensemble operated for a long time either from Brussels or Liège, since 1998 it has been permanently located in the cross-border cultural center "LE MANÈGE" in Mons . The cellist and composer Jean-Paul Dessy took over the direction . In addition, the name was changed from “Musique Nouvelle” to “Musiques Nouvelles” in order to highlight the expanded international spectrum of the repertoire and a certain renewal of the ensemble. In 2009 “Musiques Nouvelles” developed a program by the Russian composer Victor Kissine .
Discography
- Alexander Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, Tantric Coupling ; Megadisc, 2006
- DJ Olive / Jean-Paul Dessy, Scories ; Sub Rosa , 2005
- Philippe Libois, Send and Return ; Mogno Music, 2005
- Art Zoyd Studio & Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Expériences de vol 4, 5, 6, ; In-possible Records, 2005
- Jean-Paul Dessy, The Present's Presents ; Le Chant du Monde / Harmonia Mundi, 2005
- Various composers, miniatures ; Sub Rosa, 2004
- Alexander Knaifel, Agnus Dei ; Megadisc, 2004
- Henri Pousseur, Couleurs croisées, la seconde apothéose de Rrameau ; Cyprès, 2004
- Scanner / Dessy, Play Along ; Sub Rosa, 2004
- Victor Kissine, Chamber Music ; Soyuz, 2003
- Jean-Marie Rens, Vibrations ; Cyprès, 2003
- Rioji Ikeda, Op. ; Touch, 2002
- Art Zoyd Studio & Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Experiences de vol 1, 2, 3 ; Sub Rosa, 2002
- David Shea , Classical Works II ; Tzadik , 2002
- Michael Levinas, Musique de Chambre ; Universal, 2000
- Philippe Boesmans, Summer Dreams / Ornemented Zone / Love and dance tunes ; Ricercar, 1998