North​-​American Tours 1998​-​1999

by Jean-Michel Goury, Duo Goury-Josset, Quatuor Apollinaire

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1.
Christian Lauba - Sud 11:09
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2.
Pascale Jakubowski - Ibeji IV 15:29
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3.
Pierre Grouvel - Chants magnétiques II 03:49
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Pierre Grouvel - Chants magnétiques II 02:43
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Pierre Grouvel - Chants magnétiques II 05:32
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François Rossé - Silence For a Disturbed Yell 07:46
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Bernard Carlosema - Clepsydre 19:54
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Charles Koechlin - Epitaphe de Jean Harlow 03:13
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Henri Sauguet - Sonatine bucolique 04:02
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Henri Sauguet - Sonatine bucolique 03:09
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Henri Sauguet - Sonatine bucolique 04:27
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Maurice Ravel - Ma Mère l'Oye - Le petit poucet 03:09
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Maurice Ravel - Ma Mère l'Oye - Les entretiens de la belle et la bête 04:24
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Jacques Ibert - Bajo la Mesa 02:14
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Claude Debussy - Syrinx 02:41
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André Caplet - Rêverie 04:11
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Arthur Honegger - Concerto da Camera (IIIe mouvement) 03:56
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18.
Joachim Nin - Le chant du veilleur 04:45
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19.
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Quatuor (Ier mouvement) 09:52
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George Gershwin - Bess You Is My Woman 03:46
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21.
Leon Colburn - Ragtime 02:34
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Since 1996, I have been invited by various North American universities to present the wide span of new music which I have been presenting over the years. This repertoire brings together recent pieces and world premiers (from European classics to the "Bordeaux school") a long side works from a tradition graced by poetic and pictoresque memory. These live recordings realized with my faithful partner Yves Josset and the Apollinaire Quartet are testimony to the best moments of the tours.

The American public was able to discover a new and enthusiastic approach to the contemporary French saxophone, one that is open, modern, eclectic without masking the original visceral expressivity of the instrument.

The works on this recital program (CD1) belong to a category of character pieces where the time proven notions of stylistic musical judgement cannot be limited to score analysis. The committment of the player in these performance pieces is great that the sensorial energy projected by the performer can upset both the reading and the listening experience. In a jubilant transcendant gesture, one is taken beyond the scope of the score. If the player's instinct is innate, the reading and understanding of the text, the interpretation of the written effect is a long and laborious task, obliging us to personalize the expressive gesture while keeping as close as possible to the generative thought of the work. But, how can one approach musical extasy while adhering to the score but avoiding the show of style or releasing an expressionist regurgitation.

It is a long path filled with patience, self-denial and doubt but which is luckily punctuated by visits to living composers.

----- Jean-Michel Goury


Live recordings at Alberta University (Edmonton, Canada), British-Columbia University (Victoria, Canada), Bowling Green (Ohio, USA)

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released March 9, 2000

Music Performers :
- Duo Goury-Josset : Jean-Michel Goury (saxophones) and Yves Josset (piano) (Tracks 1 - 6).
- Jean-Michel Goury (saxophones) and Bernard Carlosema (tape) (Track 7).
- Quatuor Apollinaire : Marie-Christine Josset (keys, voice), Sophie Goury (flutes), Yves Josset (piano), Jean-Michel Goury (saxophones) (Track 8-21).

Arrangements : Yves Josset (tracks 12, 13, 21), Marcel Mule (track 14), Jean-Marie Londeix (track 17)

Mastering : Thomas Bloch (Studio TGB)

Covert art : "New Territory" by Etienne Rolin

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Jean-Michel Goury is one of the world’s foremost performers of contemporary music for saxophone. His performances and recordings have received high praise from critics worldwide.
Very engaged on the way of contemporary music, he recorded more than 400 creations by worldwide composers since 1980 and often performed on tours worldwide with Xasax, Quatuor Apollinaire Duo Goury-Josset or as a soloist. ... more

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