Noûs Odile Catelin-Delangle & Claude Delangle

• Philippe Leroux (b. 1959):
• 1Leroux: SPP12:05
• 2Leroux: AMA: I. —07:13
• 3Leroux: AMA: II. —08:43
• 4Leroux: Conca reatina (Ruban de Möbius)14:24
• 5Leroux: Répéter... Opposer06:34
• 6Leroux: Dense... Englouti06:26
• 7Leroux: Noûs09:35
• Total Runtime01:05:00

Info for Noûs

The collaboration between composer Philippe Leroux and the husband-and-wife team of Claude and Odile Delangle began in the early 1990s and has grown ever closer over the years. In October 2019 the three met up again for a few intense days, in order to record Noûs, a programme of works for soprano saxophone and for solo piano. The release is bookended by two duos for the instruments –the opening SPP a reworking by the composer of an earlier score, and the closing Noûs that Leroux wrote for the Delangles only a few months before the recording. In both of these –albeit in different ways –the composer explores a couple of his favorite principles, namely those of continuity and transformation. Between them we hear works from the past decade, beginning with AMA for solo piano, from 2009. The other two piano works, Répéter... Opposer and Dense... Englouti are both tributes to Claude Debussy, a composer who occupies an important place in the musical universe of Philippe Leroux. At the centre of the disc, finally, is the highly virtuosic Conca Reatina for soprano saxophone. Loosely inspired by the contours of the mountains surrounding the Rieti Valley (Conca reatina), the piece is a dizzying sonic Möbius strip which keeps returning the listener to his point of departure. Claude Delangle, soprano saxophone
Odile Catelin-Delangle, piano

Claude Delangle
Soloist, researcher and pedagogue, Claude Delangle, one of the greatest contemporary saxophonists, stands out as the master of the French saxophone. Privileged interpreter for classic works, he enriches the repertoire and encourages creation by collaborating with the most renowned composers, including L. Berio, P. Boulez, Toru Takemitsu, A. Piazzolla, and promoting the youngest. Since 1986, he is invited saxophonist in the Ensemble Intercontemporain, he also appears as soloist with the most prestigious orchestras (London BBC, Radio France, Radio of Finland, WDR Köln, Berlin Philharmonic, Kioi Tokyo) and works with D. Robertson, P. Eötvös, K. Nagano, E.P. Salonen, Miung Wung Chung, G. Bernstein and many other conductors.

He is also invited to important festivals such as the Zagreb Bienniale , Présences of Radio France or the Musica Nova Festival . The Festival Musica of Strasbourg invited him recently to offer the world premiere of the programme “ Tango Futur ”, interpreted afterwards at the Festival Aix en Musique and at the Theatre of the Palais Royal in Paris.

Passionate for his instrument, he goes beyond the work of the soloist and frequents the Musical Acoustic Laboratories of the University of Paris 7. The results of his research on specific acoustics of the saxophone will be for him a precious asset in his collaboration with composers.

His recordings for BIS, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Erato and Verany bring out French music while revealing new musical horizons from the repertoire created by the brilliant Adolphe Sax to the avant-garde works or the popular repertoire.

After obtaining several outstanding Premiers Prix at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris , Claude Delangle was appointed professor in 1988, where he has created the most prestigious saxophone class in the world.

Claude Delangle et Esa-Pekka Salonen. Picture taken at the Musica Nova Helsinki Festival Pupils of all nationalities long to receive this education, which combines concerts with the possibility of studying with important composers and offers a large range of interdisciplinary activities. In Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia, Claude Delangle is requested for interpretation courses.

He is currently in charge of a collection at the Henri-Lemoine-Paris publications, where he works for the publishing of new repertoires and for the republishing of classic works, not forgetting, however, the publication of pedagogical works.

During this season 2003-2004 Asia will welcome Claude Delangle four times: in Japan he will perform in a tour with the Metropolitan Tokyo Symphony, in Hong Kong with the City Chamber Orchestra, in Singapore he will record for BIS the great concertos of the repertoire with the Symphonic Orchestra of Singapore and will give recitals in China. He is also planning the premiere of Trame 1 by Martin Matalon at the Arsenal in Metz, a tour of recitals in Central America in July and concerts with the orchestras of Saint Petersburg and Novossibirsk in September. The strong point of his Parisian season will be the Festival Agora in June, for which he has been given carte blanche by the IRCAM (Institute of musical acoustics research and coordination).

Odile Catelin-Delangle
Delangle was born in Avignon (France). Her predilection for chamber music led her to perform with numerous partners: in Australia with Philippe Cuper, soloist clarinet at the Opera Orchestra of Paris, during musical cruises with the cellist Alain Meunier, the oboist David Walter, the violinist Alexis Galpérine; she has been in many tours with the percussionist Jean Geoffroy, the accordionist Max Bonnay and the singer Susanna Moncayo; she works with the violinist Diana Cazaban and records the Beethoven Quintet with the Diastema Quartet. Her repertoire is vast and shows a great liking for twentieth century music. She has performed in eighty premieres (Denisov, Taïra, Nodaïra, Hosokawa, Louvier, etc.) and has carried out regular work with numerous composers as an interpreter but also as pedagogue in her class at the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris, where she receives many foreign students (Europe, USA, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Taiwan, China, Japan). She also gives master classes on French music, in particular on Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen and Dutilleux. She was at the Ecole Normale where she carried out her advanced studies under the direction of the great pedagogue Germaine Mounier and where she obtained her “Teaching degree” and her “Concert degree” unanimously. She owes her particular sense of phrasing and colour to the master classes received from the great pedagogue Mario Curcio. Since the 80s she has visited every corner of the planet with her husband, the saxophonist Claude Delangle, and has recorded with him about fifteen discs, mainly for the Swedish firm BIS. Mrs. Delangle has been awarded at the international competitions Maria Canals of Barcelona (Spain) and of Geneva (Switzerland).

Booklet for Noûs