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Bernard Cavanna
12+ albums
contemporary classicalfrenchcomposerinstrumentalexperimental
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Born in France 1951,Nogent-sur-Marne,French composer by Christine Labroche and Virginie Pallu Bernard Cavanna's musical world is strictly his own: iconoclastic, eclectic, willingly provocative, and often filled with a violence drastically opposed to his soft nature. He cultivates contrast by combining a shrewd writing style with popular resurgences, working with tonal as well as with dissonant sonorities, opposing rawness to harmonic subtlety, and shifting from a fine timbre research to brutal sounds. Whether they lull you, shake you, mark you or hurt you, Cavanna's compositions consistently bear the mark of an inner urgency that reflects his thorough attention to the tiniest technical detail according to the intense outlook he has on the radiance or dilemma of humankind underlying his inspiration. Christine Labroche With strong encouragement from Henri Dutilleux, Georges Aperghis, Paul Méfano and Aurèle Stroë,Bernard Cavanna (born in 1951) devoted himself to composition. Winner of the Prix de Rome, allowing him to spend 1985-1986 at the Villa Médicis, an annual creation scholarship, the SACEM Prize for the best contemporary creation (1998), the UNESCO International Tribune (1999) and a «Victoires de la Musique» award, his works have produced a powerful impression on the public and critics alike. In particular, we will mention Io for voice and eleven instruments, La Confession impudique (1987/92), an opera based on the novel by Tanizaki, Messe un jour ordinaire, a work ins
top songs
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Shanghai Concerto, double concerto pour violon, violoncelle et orchestre: En Ré
682Goutte d'or
353To Air One
274L'accord ne m'use pas la nuit
105Trois Strophes sur le nom de Patrice Emery Lumumba, pour alto et ensemble instrumental: l.
86Trois Strophes sur le nom de Patrice Emery Lumumba, pour alto et ensemble instrumental: ll.
87Trois Strophes sur le nom de Patrice Emery Lumumba, pour alto et ensemble instrumental: lll.
88Shanghai Concerto, double concerto pour violon, violoncelle et orchestre: Pause - Varitations sur un thème pentatonique bien enfoui
89Shanghai Concerto, double concerto pour violon, violoncelle et orchestre: Cadence
810Shanghai Concerto, double concerto pour violon, violoncelle et orchestre: Pause - Hommage à Aurèle Stroë (sur fond de Machaut)
7albums
Cavanna: Karl Koop Konzert - Shanghai Concerto - Trois Strophes
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Sonneurs
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Cavanna: Concertos & Bagatelles
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Cavanna & Schubert | Accordion Trios & Lieder transcriptions
9° Festival Internazionale Di Musica Contemporanea Antidogma - Torino 1986
Cavanna: Karl Koop Konzert / Shanghai Concerto / Trois Strophes
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AGP82
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Karl Koop Konzert / Shanghaï Concerto / Trois Strophes
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Torino Festival (AGP82)
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9th Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea in 1986 in Torino, Italy
Nu Piping
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Bernard Cavanna: Karl Koop Konzert