Figures de rhétorique
Robert Normandeau
Programme notes
To Jacques Drouin
The title
The subtitle
— Robert Normandeau [English translation
Figures de rhétorique [Figures of Speech] was commissioned by the pianist Jacques Drouin with support from the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA). The tape sounds were obtained with the help of processing carried out on SYTER at the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) in Paris in 1994. The final tape was realized in Queen’s University in Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK) and at the composer’s studio in 1997. Thanks to Michael Alcorn and Daniel Teruggi. It was premiered by Jacques Drouin on May 23, 1998 at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in Montréal. Thanks to Guy Soucie. Figures de rhétorique was awarded the 1st prize for mixed music in the Musica Nova 1998 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music (Prague, Czech Republic).
Premiere
- May 23, 1998, Jacques Drouin, piano • La semaine de musique québécoise pour le piano
: Carte blanche à Jacques Drouin, Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montréal (Québec)
Awards
About this sound recording
… at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in Montréal where the present recording was later realized.
- Composer(s): Robert Normandeau
- Year of composition: 1997
- Duration: 13:37
- Instrumentation: piano and stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: Jacques Drouin, with support from the CCA
- ISRC: CAD500910006
