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01:37
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‘Exceeds the most colossal notion of modern barbarism. The pompous
splendour of the buildings
and the eternal snow on the ground. Out of
a strange urge for extravagance all classical masterpieces
of architecture are reproduced’.
Intoxicated Dances of Trance Danse Africain (complete)
02:15
min. / 3,09 MB/ MP3
Dionyssos appears as the dancer Nijinski: Dance of the
Child (fragment)
02:54
min. / 3,98 MB/ MP3
“A door slammed,- and on the square of the
hamlet the child spinned
his arms, understood by the windvanes and
weathercocks
from everywhere, in the pattering shower.”
Visions du Palais Barbare
with subtitles from poems of Arthur Rimbaud
I would like to describe the poems of Arthur Rimbaud as visionary,
barbarous and mystical. The compositions and the performance of this concert
are in every aspect inspired by this pioneer of poetry.
Rimbaud, one could state, wrote poetry from the fuddle of Dionyssos, the
Greek deity of wine, harmony and excitement from devotion and nearness. Of the
nearness of the child, the nearness of the adolescent, of the vicinity of
barbarous dreams,
actually from a state of intellectual, artistic intoxination and trance.
Barend W. Schipper
Live piano music composed and performed by Barend
Schipper
CD
1:
“Far past the days and tides, the
creatures and countries.
The music, a swirl from the dephts and
shock of the drifting ice against the stars”:
1. Nocturnal arrival of Dionyssos by Gondola 01.20
min.
‘A choir of glasses of melodies from the night’..
2. Palais
Barbare
01.35
min.
‘Exceeds
the most colossal notion of modern barbarism. The pompous splendour of the
buildings
and
the eternal snow on the ground. Out of a strange urge for extravagance all
classical masterpieces
of
architecture are reproduced’.
3. The hall 01.45
min.
‘To miraculously embellish the façades of
the Promontory’.
4. The shell of the Stairwell 01.23 min.
Salle de Galleries
‘On an attic where I
was locked up when I was twelve, I have known the world,
I have illustrated the
human comedy.’
5. Gallery of Portraits: Chinese portrait 03.13
min.
6.
African portrait 03.43 min
7.
Spanish portrait 03.10
min.
8.
Gallery of Picassos: Scène de
Jazz 01.18
min.
9. Clown 02.38
min.
10.
Scène de Jazz 00.37
min.
11.
Tango 02.05
min.
12.
Scène de Jazz 01.24
min.
13.
The Hall
01.24 min.
14.
Sleepwalk in the morning garden 03.22
min.
‘I
have walked and awoke the sultry, spicy fumes, and the gems looked around, and
soundlessly the wings rise.’
15. Awakening
in the afternoon: la Cappucino 00.49 min.
Stage feast in the court yard: Scènes d’Opera:
‘Behind the comic-operahuts’
16. Scène 1
04.32
min.
17.
Scène 2 04.18 min.
Total time: 39.17 min.
1: Evening
feast: Dionyssos’ Garden Music 03:53
min.
“Ritornella’s from the glorious valleys of the arts”
2: La Grappa 00:32
min.
Intoxicated
Dances of Trance:
“Touch with your
finger the tambourin and all sounds break loose,
the new harmony
begins.”
3: Danse
Africain 02:13
min.
4: Danse de Bali 02:40
min.
5: Danse Russe 05:33
min.
6: Night Feast
in all the Rooms of the Palace 04:58
min.
Dionyssos
appears as the Dancer Nijinski:
7: Dance of the
Child 04:27
min.
“A door slammed,- and on the square of the hamlet the child spinned
his arms, understood by the windvanes and
weathercocks
from everywhere, in the pattering shower.”
8: Dance of the Adolescent 04:29
min.
“Ah! Infinite egoism of the adolescence, zealous optimism:
how
full of flowers the world was this summer!”
9: Dance of the
Clown 04:47
min. [page down]
“It is the dear, neither torturing nor tortured. The dear.
It is the friend, not fierce, not weak.
The friend.”
10: Dance of
the Animal 09:57
min.
“Your heart beats in this body of which the equivocality slumbers.
Your teeth shine. Stained with
whinelees, your cheeks become hollow.”
11: Encore:
Amadeus Faun 06:04
min.
Total time: 50:11 min.
Visions du
Palais Barbare:
This CD is recorded live during a piano concert given
by Barend Schipper on November 25th 2000
in the architecture of the Concert Hall in the
Stedelijke Muziekschool Groningen.
Recordings by: ASN Studios, the Netherlands.
Cover: front: Arthur Rimbaud, 1871, floorplan of
‘Palazzo Barbaro’ in Rome
back: Arthur Rimbaud: drawing by Coussens,
floorplan of ‘Palazzo Barbaro’ in Rome
Cover design: Meyke Beekman and Barend Schipper, ©
2001.
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