Jeu de Tarot: Music by David Felder
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Label: Coviello Classics
Cat No: COV91913
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 16th August 2019
Contents
Artists
Irvine Arditti (violin)The Arditti Quartet
Ensemble Signal
Conductor
Brad LubmanWorks
Another Face for solo violinJeu de Tarot
Netivot for string quartet
Artists
Irvine Arditti (violin)The Arditti Quartet
Ensemble Signal
Conductor
Brad LubmanAbout
Yet even within those parameters Jeu de Tarot, his chamber violin concerto for Irvine Arditti and Ensemble LINEA, offers an intriguing question. The work is divided into seven movements, each named after one of the 22 cards of the Major Arcana of a Tarot deck: the cards most commonly associated with representations of the Tarot.
Each movement depicts a scene evoked by portrayals of each of these characters, especially those described by the Russian esotericist Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky in his A New Model of the Universe of 1917. Such illustrations are highly symbolic, crowded with internal and external references, requiring a lifetime’s study to interpret to their fullest.
The question is this: As listeners, how deep into those representations should we go? Is movement 1, The Juggler, a musical evocation of Will - the divinatory meaning of that card? Can we hear Deception in movement 7, Moonlight? Does movement 3 show us the High Priestess, guardian of knowledge, sat between two temple pillars, one black the other white, as Ouspensky describes her? Featuring Irvine Arditti, the Ensemble Signal and the Arditti Quartet, conducted by Brad Lubman, this is a unique opportunity to explore his music.
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