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“L’une des personnalités les plus intéressantes et originales de sa génération”
MATTHIAS PINTSCHER

“Una scrittura magistrale”
STEFANO GERVASONI

Available in HD and surround formats at
www.neurecords.com/madrigal

The music of Joan Magrané is the fruit of a passionate and sensitive musician, a wise connoisseur of the history and techniques – of writing and performance practice – that have been produced over the centuries. At the same time he is a composer of our time, an antenna of its complexity, and an artist endowed with a vision projected towards the future. Unlike many of the composers of his generation who seem to place themselves in a position of rejection of the past so as to be able to affirm their own “modernity” with evident radicality, history echoes in the compositions of Joan Magrané; this is certainly the case in the three quartets. Without nostalgia or complacency, history becomes a trail that directs the possible paths of exploration of sound, of one’s own ghosts, and of the world in which we live. Everything vibrates in this vision of the world; if history is the unapparent wisdom that allows us to confidently follow every path into the unknown, the world and its events are the exciters of the strings that transform all of it into sound mass. They are the soundboards of a memory that renews itself as it vibrates and transforms things and their perception.


Joan Magrané’s predilection for transparent and ever-changing sounds is apparent in the masterful writing of the three quartets: their music is incorporeal and at the same time rooted in history and performance practice, the melodic lines, although inspired by singing, become breath, and their interweaving builds a sound organism of which the composer highlights the almost physiological inner sound.
The history and artifices of technique are sublimated in a music that seems to become “natural”, though the world is not denied and history does not become a refuge (or a prison). In this visionary naturalness there is no convention that is reconstituted reassuringly, there are no gestures that refer back to an apparently certain and consoling world where what has form can only be a circumscribed object recovered from a buried past. Everything lives in the music of Joan Magrané, the new and the old, the intimacy of the artist as well as the worldliness of reality, and it projects itself forward asking the listener who participates in this “living naturalness” – so precious, so beautiful, and so simple – to give up perceiving and pretending to understand the music according to the conventions of learned names and categories, and to instead name them for the first time. It is all this that drives the double movement of deep historical impregnation of the sound vibration and the sublimation of its conditions of production and the matter of its propagation that Joan Magrané puts into action in writing his compositions. An innocent renunciation of knowledge, because with the tools given by that knowledge it is impossible to name (grasp, know, re-elaborate in the form of thought) that with which the sound phenomenon is being produced with the same naturalness. An invitation to the perennial renaming of things that is the beginning of knowledge, together with the recognition of the inadequacy of one’s gaze.

credits

released May 17, 2023

Recorded at
Auditorio de Zaragoza, Spain
April 2022

Composed by
Joan Magrané

Performed by
Quatuor Diotima
Yun-Peng Zhao, violin
Léo Marillier, violin
Franck Chevalier, viola
Pierre Morlet, cello

Liner notes
Stefano Gervasoni

Translations
Daniel Boeke
Video shooting
Mario Maher

Video post-production
Guillermo and Santi Barguñó

Graphic Art Direction
Lorena Alonso

Balance engineer
Hugo Romano Guimarães

Mixed and mastered with
Dynaudio speakers

Produced by
Santi Barguñó

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