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Robert Groslot: I Will Come Back

Vlaams Radiokoor, Héloïse Mas, Thomas Oliemans, Brussels Philharmonic, Robert Groslot

Robert Groslot: I Will Come Back

Robert Groslot: I Will Come Back

Vlaams Radiokoor, Héloïse Mas, Thomas Oliemans, Brussels Philharmonic, Robert Groslot

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'I Will Come Back' is a chamber opera by Robert Groslot, based on the book I'm coming back (Ik kom terug) by Adriaan van Dis, who also wrote the libretto. The chamber opera is accompanied by Six Poems by William Butler Yeats.

On this album, Groslot excels in his compositions combining literature and musical grammar. The opera is performed by soloists Heloise Mas and Thomas Oliemans, accompanied by the Vlaams Radiokoor and Brussels Philharmonic soloists. The CD booklet contains a uniquely open and honest interview with the composer.

Over the past decade, Groslot has primarily been a prolific composer with a unique position in the contemporary music landscape. Groslot eschews the atonal excesses of modernism, deliberately pushing for accessibility to the listener and playing pleasure for the performer, but he never succumbs to the cinematic banality of postmodern music. In the compositions to which this recording is devoted, an extra dimension emerges: Groslot's literary imagination and the intuitive fusing of linguistic and musical grammar which transpire in the chamber opera I will come back and the Six Poems by William Butler Yeats.

The sound universe of Belgian composer Robert Groslot fuses AngloSaxon, Germanic and Latin elements into a new and highly malleable language, building upon the achievements of the great composers of the Western heritage. Form virtuosity, sound refinement, wittiness, 'rediscovered' tonality and rhythmical adventure are the keystones of the music of Robert Groslot. He often draws inspiration from other art forms, especially poetry and painting. As a composer, Robert Groslot was largely self-taught. His broad experience with the big repertoire works, both as a concert pianist and as a conductor, became the perfect breeding ground for his composing philosophy. Resulting in a distinctively coloured and rhythmically challenging writing, his chamber music has been referred to as 'oxygen during practice and adrenaline during performance'.

Contents and tracklist

I. Java. Rain. Palm Trees
Track length0:56
II. A Sitting Room
Track length2:42
III. Bengawan Solo
Track length1:56
IV. They Married, and Left for Java
Track length2:19
V. Rain. The Letter
Track length1:10
VI. Photo's / Dance
Track length1:53
VII. The Son Enters / Conversation About Carl
Track length2:32
VIII. Yes, Tell Us
Track length1:51
IX. Tell Me About Your Asian War
Track length1:48
X. Sign the Contract
Track length2:35
XI. Save Him from His Mother
Track length1:07
XII. My Father Is a Stain on the Ceiling
Track length1:26
XIII. Rain / Let Me Sit Closer
Track length0:44
XIV. We Don't Talk About the War
Track length3:23
XV. Healing Hands
Track length1:37
XVI. Carl's Solo
Track length1:47
XVII. Come, Stones, Help Me
Track length1:50
XVIII. A New Life
Track length1:37
XIX. Waltz with Rollators
Track length1:50
XX. Let Me Help You Back to Bed
Track length1:21
XXI. To Hell with Your Water
Track length1:37
XXII. The Cosmic Garden
Track length9:25
I. The Wheel
Track length4:37
II. The Song of Wandering Aengus
Track length4:00
III. To an Isle in the Water
Track length3:11
IV. O Do Not Love Too Long
Track length1:42
V. Two Songs of a Fool
Track length1:47
VI. The Second Coming
Track length3:36
VII. The Wheel (reprise)
Track length1:30
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