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Hyperion Ensemble is a group of interpreters
and composers having for declared aim the development of a new
aesthetic program - prefiguring a new avangarde in music, whose
main definition is - spectrality.
Hyperion Ensemble was founded in 1976
by the composer Iancu
Dumitrescu. Initially, Hyperion
suggested underlining possible connections between the orgins,
the most archaic Romanian music - Byzantine music, folklore collected
by Bartok, etc. - and today's avangarde music , represented then
by a group of innovative composers.
Reneuwed once more today, Hyperion
recreates a new avant-garde, removing any pre-conceptions, as
a provocation of the spirit, in quest of new domains - terrae
incognitae - of the sound.
The activity of "Hyperion" is found
in a many recordings and concerts all over Europe - in Vienna
(Musikverein), Paris (Radio France several times) London (Royal
Festival Hall), Lisbon (Goulbenkian foundation) Nice (Festival
MANCA) Allicante, Vitoria, Lerida, Rotterdam, Peruggia, Utrecht,
Rome, Chartres, Orleans, Nancy, Belgrade, etc.
Hyperion has recordednumerous LPs and 20 compact discs, dedicated
to the music of Iancu
Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria
Avram.
PRESS fragments:
"... Few days before these recitals, the public of Nice had
been hardly intrigued - but completely seduced - by the venue
of Hyperion Ensemble, directed by Iancu DUMITRESCU. Main organ
of the current musical creation in Romania, this ensemble testifies,
in its orientations, of the research for a synthesis Orient-Occident.
It developed the practice of the collective improvisation, the
intuitive musics, and the reference to the harmony of the natural
spectrum ". (...) Gérard Condé,
Le Monde - Paris - Tuesday, February 19, 1985.
"... However, both most striking works of the Rumanian evenings
of Wednesday and Thursday, when Hyperion Ensemble from Bucharest
performed, were a Dumitrescu's work for three double- basses and
percussions, in which, in the middle of a spectacular movement
of bows, pizzicatos and harmonic sounds, one was seduced by the
internal beauty of the sound climate..." André
Breton "Midi Matin", Nice 1985
As a chief of Hyperion Ensemble he founded in 1976 and which he
conducts since, together ensemble which includes one of the most
brilliant instrumentalists of Rumania, Iancu Dumitrescu made known
in all Europe not only his most significant works, but still those
of his colleagues representing the wheeling and forward-looking
flank of the Romanian School". Harry Halbreich
"Le Monde de la Musique", Paris, 1985
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