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Michel Gonneville: Hozhro
(CQB 0907, 2009)

Description

Quatuor Bozzini joins forces with composer Michel Gonneville for a unique contemporary opera on the “hot” issue of the ecological crisis, based on the thoughts of eminent Quebecois ecologist Pierre Dansereau. The music takes us deep into the universe of a woman haunted by that crisis, a woman who is trying to reclaim her inner harmony (“hozhro” in Navajo) and embarking on a process similar in ways to a North-American Native healing ritual. Played by soprano Marianne Lambert, surrounded by the string quartet Quatuor Bozzini and the saxophonist Mathieu Gaulin, the main character withdraws within herself to escape through her dreams and a sensuous form of poetry, from which she will come out calmed down and lucid.

Track Listing

  • 01. Michel Gonneville, Hozhro (1991-2008), 53m54s
    • 01. Manifeste
    • 02. Manifeste: suite (paliers d’écosystèmes)
    • 03. 8 mots d’ordre sur un constat
    • 04. Les forces qui contrarient
    • 05. Tremblement de tente
    • 06. Restes de slogans
    • 07. Phrases décousues
    • 08. Entrée dans le sommeil
    • 09. Re-synchronisation
    • 10. Le shaman et l’âme
    • 11. Duo à pas lents
    • 12. Solfège
    • 13. Île arc-en-ciel (avec shaman, oiseaux et carillon)
    • 14. Île arc-en-ciel 2
    • 15. Réveil
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