Connesson: Cosmic Trilogy / l'Etre De Lumiere SACD

Hybrid SACD

Connesson:
Cosmic Trilogy
L’Être de lumière

Recognised as a young and incredibly gifted contemporary composer, Guillaume Connesson brings together an imaginatively diffuse range of influences, from the riches of the musical traditions of his native France to John Adams, Steve Reich and even the funk of James Brown. He is acclaimed for writing ‘bright-toned and imaginatively scored…crowd-pleasing, colourful music’ (The Guardian). During the composition of the works making up the Cosmic Trilogy Connesson drew inspiration from such sources as the paintings of Kandinsky and the physics of Stephen Hawking. After first discovering Connesson’s music in 2001, Stéphane Denève remarked on its ‘amazing orchestration…the quality of writing for large orchestra on the level of a Ravel or Stravinsky’, going on to champion Connesson’s works and commission two parts of the Cosmic Trilogy, ‘Aleph’ and ‘Une lueur dans l’âge sombre’ for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The Cosmic Trilogy evokes three moments in the history of the universe: the Big Bang in ‘Aleph’, the appearance of light and the stars in ‘Une lueur dans l’âge sombre’, and finally the explosion and death of a star in ‘Supernova’.