RITES - Œuvres concertantes
Whether celebrating peace or invoking Lovecraft's terrifying (and far from peaceful!) creatures, Calmel's first words are about music.
His own is rooted in the great french tradition, in jazz and film music. It is constructed of clear lines and harmonies carried by jubilant rhythms. As an accomplished jazz pianist himself, Calmel loves free and sometimes even improvised instrumental playing. But he also cultivates rich, shimmering orchestral colours as a key to unlocking the listener's imagination.
This is music that seduces right from the start, but whose melodic motifs remain in one's memory for a long time. Music that sounds evident but is written using science.
Music that is woven with distant heritages and multiple present-day influences.
In short, a very contemporary artist.
Guillaume Connesson
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RITE OF PEACE Symphonie concertante pour violoncelle et orchestre
© 2022 Éditions Musicales Artchipel
Xavier Phillips | Les Siècles, direction Aurélien Azan Zielinski
RHAPSODIE FANTASMAGORIQUE SUR DOCTEUR JEKYLL ET M. HYDE
Double concerto pour saxophone alto, piano et orchestre à cordes
© 2022 Éditions Musicales Artchipel
Frédérique Lagarde, Philippe Portejoie | Orchestre à cordes de la Garde républicaine, direction Sébastien Billard
CALL OF CTHULHU Concerto fantastique pour quatuor de cors et orchestre
© 2020 Hafabra Music
Florian Le Bleis, Arnaud Delépine, David Harnois, Stéphane Peter | Musique des Gardiens de la Paix, direction Gildas Harnois
WOOD MUSIC Concerto pour quintette à vent et orchestre
© 2022 Éditions Musicales Artchipel
Mayu Sato-Brémaud, Annelise Clément, Baptiste Gibier, Cyril Normand, Frank Sibold | Scoring Orchestra, direction Aurélien Azan Zielinski