那麼,來跳舞吧? 古典名曲集 SR9打擊樂三重奏 / Trio SR9 / Alors on danse

For their second album on Naïve, the three percussionists (marimba play-ers) of Trio SR9 have chosen to shine the light on the theme of dance, in all its rich variety through-out the history of Western classical music: from Rameau and Bach, to Debussy, Satie and Borodin.
So, shall we dance?
The first part of the album is a set of Baroque dances (Gavotte, Sarabande, Minuet, Gigue...) drawn from the legacy of various European com-posers. These pieces are presented in the form of a large suite, as was the tradition at the time.
Then we move on to explore Europe of the nine-teenth century. A taste for exoticism and folk dance rhythms are here made even more sublime by Claude Debussy with his Tarentelle Styrienne, Béla Bartok with the Romanian Dances and Alex-ander Borodin with his Polovtsian Dances.
The last part of the disc is dedicated to the mysti-cism of dance and begins, perhaps unsurprising-ly, with the Ritual Fire Dance by Manuel de Falla. It is followed by Narnchygäer, a new work for three marimbas and the first of its kind composed by François Tashdjian especially for the SR9 Trio.
Lastly, it is around the three Danse de Travers by Erik Satie that this programme is weaved. This common thread punctuates each part of the al-bum with sweetness and melancholy.
After a highly-regarded first album, Bach on the marimba, this new programme allows us to go one step further in revealing the many riches of the marimba, the sumptuously-crafted five-octave rosewood instrument. It's via the sound of three marimbas that the Trio SR9 demon-strates its ability to develop the reputation of percussion, all in one choreographed gesture ...