Track length: | 8:29 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Francois Couturier |
ISRC: | DEB330915901 |
Track length: | 5:51 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Francois Couturier |
ISRC: | DEB330915902 |
Track length: | 2:56 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
ISRC: | DEB330915903 |
Track length: | 6:48 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Francois Couturier |
ISRC: | DEB330915904 |
Track length: | 6:10 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Francois Couturier |
ISRC: | DEB330915905 |
Track length: | 2:40 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Francois Couturier |
ISRC: | DEB330915906 |
Track length: | 4:18 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Francois Couturier |
ISRC: | DEB330915907 |
Track length: | 5:39 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Francois Couturier |
ISRC: | DEB330915908 |
Track length: | 8:38 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Francois Couturier |
ISRC: | DEB330915909 |
Track length: | 2:53 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
ISRC: | DEB330915910 |
Track length: | 3:12 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
ISRC: | DEB330915911 |
Track length: | 4:46 |
Artist: | Tarkovsky Quartet |
Performer: | Jean-Marc Larché |
Jean-Louis Matinier | |
Anja Lechner | |
Francois Couturier | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Francois Couturier |
ISRC: | DEB330915912 |
A special recording from a new group led by François Couturier. “Nostalghia – Song for Tarkovsky” is the first ‘leader’ album issued under Couturier’s name in many years. Apart from a handful of duo recordings (including “Poros” with Dominique Pifarély for ECM nine years ago), his energies have long been invested in the musical concepts of others. A generous, thoughtful, lyrical player, he has worked particularly closely with Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem in the last decade, joining Brahem’s trio on “Le pas du chat noir” (recorded 2001) and appearing on its sequel, “Le voyage de sahar” (2005). Couturier and accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier (also heard on “Nostalghia”) have had an important role to play in Brahem’s new musical directions.
François Couturier
Nostalghia - Song for Tarkovsky
François Couturier piano
Anja Lechner violoncello
Jean Marc Larché soprano saxophone
Jean Louis Matinier accordion
2011 ECM
The group heard here is comprised of three French musicians – Couturier, Larché, Matinier – who have worked together frequently in shared projects, plus German cellist Anja Lechner. A member of the Rosamunde Quartet whose ECM recordings include performances of compositions by Mansurian, Silvestrov, Shostakovich, Webern, Haydn and more (including, most recently Thomas Larcher) Lechner is also versed in improvisation in different traditions, working with musicians from Dino Saluzzi to Misha Alperin. In 2004, with Vassilis Tsabropoulos, she recorded music of Gurdjieff (“Chants, Hymns and Dances”), a project with historic-philosophical links to the present disc: Tarkovsky’s “Andrei Rublev” was Gurdjieff-inspired.
François Couturier was born in Fleury-les-Aubrais, near Orléans, in 1950, and began playing piano at the age of six. After completing studies in classical music and musicology in the early 1970s, he began improvising in earnest, initially taking his cue from modernists P...