{"id":1247,"date":"2016-10-24T09:19:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpmanager.buffet-group.com\/besson\/fr\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2016-10-24T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:25:40","slug":"alexis-demailly-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besson.com\/fr\/alexis-demailly-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Demailly Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"cp_meta_data":{"_edit_lock":["1628042656:27"],"_edit_last":["4"],"post_cover":["1248"],"_post_cover":["field_aimg_56fd3af99c36d"],"article_type":["article"],"_article_type":["field_56fd36b69c36a"],"article_content":["<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/4barsrest.com\/articles\/2016\/1579.asp\"><strong>4BarsRest catches up with French Besson cornet artist Alexis Demailly to find out more about his forthcoming CD 'Fantasque' with the Urban String Quartet.<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kl7U96UUsc4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>What inspired you \u2018...to take the cornet out of its traditional area of repertoire\u2019 as you say, for this recording?<\/strong>\r\nA few years ago, I had the idea with my wife Virginie, who is a professional violinist, that on my second CD release \u2018Rainbow\u2019, we should record three pieces of music with a string ensemble.\r\n\r\nIt seemed to us that it would be interesting to vary the existing worlds of sound and to mix accompaniments of brass and strings on the same CD. It was apparent that this marriage of two instrument families was a great success and we decided to dedicate a whole CD to the idea.\r\n\r\nIt seemed a shame to me to resort to transcriptions and use an ensemble merely as accompaniment.\r\n\r\nThis gave me the idea to involve a string quartet, one of the purest configurations and iconic of classical music, for a project that is somewhere between chamber music and music for soloists.\r\n\r\nThe delicate quality of the cornet lends itself perfectly to small configurations and this was an opportunity to try out a modern repertoire that was something different from the brass band.\r\n\r\nYou have worked with many remarkable musicians over the years in your career - now you link up with the Urban String Quartet.\r\n\r\n<strong>Does this present exciting new challenges to you as a performer?<\/strong>\r\nThis isn\u2019t simply a CD where the cornet is accompanied by a string quartet. Some pieces are more oriented toward chamber music, where the challenge was to blend the cornet with the sound and feel of the quartet.\r\n\r\nThis was a new experiment for all five of us and we had to work hard to find a homogenous approach to phrasing and dynamics.\r\n\r\nThe greatest difficulty we were faced with was the different nature of attack, the cornet being very direct and the strings often a bit more laid back!\r\n\r\n<strong>You have also worked with many exciting young composers on \u2018Fantasque\u2019.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Tell us what attracts you to the musical outlook of people such as Stan Nieuwenhuis, Peter Meechan and the others featured on the release?\r\n<\/strong>\r\nI wanted to work with composers that I admired for their works of originality and creativity.\r\n\r\nIt was a humanly as well as musically fulfilling experience, where each was able to imagine the alliance between a cornet and strings in his own way.\r\n\r\nI\u2019ve had the opportunity to hear the work of Stan (above) and Peter on several occasions and I was very drawn to their styles.\r\n\r\nI especially liked the non-conformist originality and inspiration of Stan, his music takes us on a journey and surprises us. Peter\u2019s music is refined, with beautiful strands of melodies and sublime underlying harmonies that are enough to stand on their own.\r\n\r\nThe huge talents of Nicolas Charron, Joseph Vella, Fabien Cali and Arnaud Boukhitine will keep you journeying throughout the entire CD and will undoubtedly open new perspectives in music composed for brass.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tell us a little more about each of the pieces and why you have chosen them?\r\n<\/strong>\r\nMy main inclination for this CD was to showcase new pieces.\r\n\r\nHowever, I also really wanted to record \u2018Fall from Grace\u2019 by Stan Nieuwenhuis to include a more modern side with its electro-pop style and I think it\u2019s important to bring these great pieces to life.\r\n\r\nThere\u2019s also \u2018Fujiko\u2019 by Andy Scott (below), which I think is fabulous and I wanted to arrange a version for quartet, as with \u2018Doyle\u2019s Lament\u2019 by Peter Graham - an absolutely sublime melody for flugel horn.\r\n\r\nAs for what was asked of them, I didn\u2019t impose anything on the composers but the timing. I wanted them to feel free to write their own music.\r\n\r\n\u2018Fantasque\u2019 by Stan Nieuwenhuis is a little piece in 4 movements inspired by the unpredictability of the sea. Each movement describes a state that the sea can be in: agitated, somewhat breezy, weirdly calm after a storm...\r\n\r\nFabien Cali wished to use the rhythms of machinery in his concerto for cornet, \u2018Furie\u2019. This piece starts out with a frantic rhythm, like a machine running at high speed that seems unstoppable.\r\n\r\nYou can also hear a musical poem inspired by the renowned poet, Jean de la Fontaine, \u2018La cigale et la fourmie\u2019 (\u2018The Cicada and the Ant\u2019), which Nicolas Charron wished to transcribe into music by employing the cornet and the flugel horn to illustrated the two characters.\r\n\r\n\u2018Juillet 2015\u2019 is a suite as well as fantasia to the theme of \u2018Greensleeves\u2019 by Arnaud Boukhitine that is, for me, a new generation take on the traditional theme and variations. This piece came out of the two of us kidding around, which turned into a challenge to compose it. It takes us into unimagined recesses of the theme.\r\n\r\n\u2018Meditation\u2019 by Peter Meechan evolves from a magnificent theme that develops into the fulfilment of a meditative state.\r\n\r\nWhen I proposed this project to Joseph Vella, it was when we were all in a state of shock over the terrorist attack on the magazine editors at Charlie Hebdo. Joseph wanted to show his support by composing \u2018Charlie on my Mind\u2019.\r\n\r\n<strong>Do you see this recording opening a new musical horizon for the development of cornet repertoire \u2013 and what other areas would you like to explore?<\/strong>\r\nIf I can inspire my cornet-playing colleagues to come up with new ideas by way of this recording, I\u2019ll be thrilled and honoured. There are still so many avenues to explore with these instruments.\r\n\r\nAs for the future, I like to let myself go where the wind blows. I\u2019ll probably make some new discoveries, who knows where it will take me...\r\n\r\n<strong>Do you think there is an opportunity for the cornet to gain much more widespread critical acclaim as a solo instrument like the trumpet, with orchestras, ensembles and world class groups such as the Urban String Quartet given the chance?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI have high hopes that the cornet can become an instrument of the first order.\r\n\r\nHowever, in reality, I find that wind instruments in general are poorly represented in classical music. It\u2019s our duty to promote our instrument and to try different types of music, different places, and to show how it can capture the interest of composers.\r\n\r\nOne thing is sure: the cornet is not shadowed by the trumpet, quite the opposite.\r\n\r\n<strong>You have a very busy professional life as a musician, so how did you manage to develop this recording project and be able to fit it in with your day to day work?\r\n<\/strong>\r\nFrom inception to release, we\u2019ll have spent two years in the realisation of this project. Some pieces required more time than others. I worked on it in my free time, piece-by-piece, day-by-day, without setting recording dates.\r\n\r\nWe decided to record in three two-day sessions to have the time between each one for a chance to work in detail with the five of us in collaboration with the composers.\r\n\r\nMy wife, Virginie, helped me tremendously with this project. She took care of the organisation, coordination and production. She is also a member of Urban String Quartet.\r\n\r\n<strong>And what does that day to day life entail for you working at the National Opera Orchestra of Paris and your other commitments?<\/strong>\r\nI divide my time between my position as First Cornet at the Opera, the Paris Brass Band, recordings, the Paris Opera Brass Quintet of Soloists and my solo performances in concerts.\r\n\r\nThe most difficult thing is to manage these activities time spent with my family and without forgetting my passion for golf!\r\n<strong>You have played principal cornet with Paris Brass Band (above) for a number of years and the band has become one of the very best in Europe.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What role do you see both the band and yourself being able to undertake to help promote new music and new collaborations such as your release?\r\n<\/strong>\r\nIn December at Radio France, we\u2019ll be creating a piece by Olivier Calmel, our resident composer, called \u2018Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo\u2019, for a children\u2019s choir and brass band.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ll also record a CD with composers who\u2019ve made a mark on this year of 2016: Oliver Waespi, Olivier Calmel and Thierry Deleruyelle.\r\n\r\nAt the moment, I\u2019m dedicating my time to promoting Fantasque by giving concert tours in 2017, and the next project will undoubtedly be a new CD in duo, accompanied by a wind band, and with my friend, Bastien Baumet."],"_article_content":["field_56fd3a8f9c36b"],"_wpml_word_count":["{\"total\":1433,\"to_translate\":{\"zh-hans\":1433,\"en\":1433,\"de\":1433,\"ja\":1433}}"]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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