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About Brigitte Repiton:
Her playing is direct, clear, saving poetry for the exact moment. She is the kind of performer that gives you confidence to hear music without "stress" (Livre d'images, Adeus with beautiful complex harmonies are perfect examples). In Waltz for Bill (Evans) the inner modulations are played with all the intention to reaffirm the "otherness" of foreign harmonies, but also clear as a sunny landscape. Brigitte Repiton's performing gives joy to the listener!
About the composer:
Bernard Piris digs into his french roots with easiness and respect. His language transcends pop and folk music with a personal promenade through inner modulations refreshing the tonal language of his themes. Piris does not pretend to compete with Satie or Kosma, Jobim, or Barrios. He is there touching our sensibility with the "chanson française"; with highly respected "tradition" and mastered guitar writing.
Piris' language is coherent in structure; he is not the composer who mixes ideas and more ideas without development or without "explaining" them (that's something I love to do when composing). Clear language needs clearer form (also!). We have it here!
- Leo Brouwer
The writing of Bernard Piris has everything one can dream in a piece of music: consistent architecture, beautiful melodies, interesting harmonies and strong rhythms. He has a great ability to develop a simple motif or a simple phrase into a myriad of different and fresh versions. The changes occur in all musical plans: the harmonic, the melodic, and the rhythmical.
One listen to his music with a renewed interest in each episode he proposes and is frequently surprised by the subtle and smooth changes of the first and original idea.
These pieces are a great addition to the repertoire of guitar ensemble music, and I just wish that Bernard will keep writing more and more, bringing beauty to a world that really needs it so much.
- Sérgio Assad
Her playing is direct, clear, saving poetry for the exact moment. She is the kind of performer that gives you confidence to hear music without "stress" (Livre d'images, Adeus with beautiful complex harmonies are perfect examples). In Waltz for Bill (Evans) the inner modulations are played with all the intention to reaffirm the "otherness" of foreign harmonies, but also clear as a sunny landscape. Brigitte Repiton's performing gives joy to the listener!
About the composer:
Bernard Piris digs into his french roots with easiness and respect. His language transcends pop and folk music with a personal promenade through inner modulations refreshing the tonal language of his themes. Piris does not pretend to compete with Satie or Kosma, Jobim, or Barrios. He is there touching our sensibility with the "chanson française"; with highly respected "tradition" and mastered guitar writing.
Piris' language is coherent in structure; he is not the composer who mixes ideas and more ideas without development or without "explaining" them (that's something I love to do when composing). Clear language needs clearer form (also!). We have it here!
- Leo Brouwer
The writing of Bernard Piris has everything one can dream in a piece of music: consistent architecture, beautiful melodies, interesting harmonies and strong rhythms. He has a great ability to develop a simple motif or a simple phrase into a myriad of different and fresh versions. The changes occur in all musical plans: the harmonic, the melodic, and the rhythmical.
One listen to his music with a renewed interest in each episode he proposes and is frequently surprised by the subtle and smooth changes of the first and original idea.
These pieces are a great addition to the repertoire of guitar ensemble music, and I just wish that Bernard will keep writing more and more, bringing beauty to a world that really needs it so much.
- Sérgio Assad