Anthony Rozankovic : Origami Louise Bessette

• Anthony Rozankovic (b. 1962):
• 1 Rozankovic: Andalouse Running Shoes 03:53
• 2 Rozankovic: Origami 03:22
• 3 Rozankovic: Avenue Zéro 06:17
• 4 Rozankovic: Mosaïque thérianthropique 03:15
• 5 Rozankovic: Providence 03:28
• 6 Rozankovic: La Jungle jongle 09:24
• 7 Rozankovic: Errance 03:28
• 8 Rozankovic: Last Call 03:57
• 9 Rozankovic: Me and Mr. Morley 03:21
• 10 Rozankovic: Pier 21 04:20
• 11 Rozankovic: Et si ? 03:32
• 12 Rozankovic: Pigeon in the sky 03:33
• 13 Rozankovic: Canada by Night 03:53
• 14 Rozankovic: La Vie en rouge 05:25
• 15 Rozankovic: Dead End 05:39
• 16 Rozankovic: Le p’tit gars de Sainte-Marie 05:06
• 17 Rozankovic: Pigeon Biset 10:32
• Total Runtime 01:22:25

Info for Anthony Rozankovic : Origami

With her latest recording, Origami, pianist Louise Bessette unveils a few pages from the musical journal of Montréal composer Anthony Rozankovic. His “origami music” or “score sculptures” are alternately dissonant, syncopated, consonant, lyrical, or chaotic – according to film producer Carl Leblanc, author of the album’s liner notes. 11 of the 16 pieces on Origami started out as film music, with the composer conveying intense emotions. Among the other works are four concert pieces.

Here are a few pages from the musical journal, 1995 to 2022, of Montréal composer Anthony Rozankovic. He has folded, unfolded and refolded his music paper. We compose with life; he lives to compose. His “origami music,” his “score sculptures,” are sometimes dissonant, other times syncopated, consonant, lyrical or chaotic. What’s important is to “accept the multitudes within us.” And that’s what he will do, starting in 1995, taking Stravinsky literally: “To hell with the past!” The composer freed himself from the prison of the academy and dared to express the impudence of emotion. Dared tell sound stories. Allowed himself the pleasure of melody. That decision would produce Origami, music that shakes the roots through its power to move. No one else than the superb pianist Louise Bessette, who has a similar wide reach, could take on his eclectic side and give it a coherence both sublime and unified.

Eleven of the seventeen pieces of this album started out as film music, with the composer narrating emotions of great intensity, from the fate of migrants (Errance) to the creation of a greeting card in the form of a paper bouquet in Auschwitz (Origami). Among the other works are four concert pieces, including Mosaïque thérianthropique and La Jungle jongle composed for Louise Bessette. Fans of avant-garde music and those who prefer penetrating melodies will find nourishment in this great voyage through History (Et si? and Canada by Night) and stories both (Origami, Pier 21, Andalouse Running Shoes). Most of these works had different arrangements and orchestrations, but in the solitude of the piano, they speak more eloquently of our human condition, our aloneness, that little music inside us that, here, bursts forward in the work of this gifted pianist.

Hope, concern, lightness, drama, stochastic reverie, romantic dreaming, the sublime progression of notes, sometimes in vigorous statements, whispered emotions, a confession of sentiment and, as always, we put our life on stage: was this music composed just for me? Both musical journal and the confidences of a piano, in Louise Bessette Origami found its ideal interpreter, for she too is perfectly suited to engage in that essential human activity: telling a story.

Louise Bessette, piano

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