Orchestre National de France - Time CirclesThere is a prevailing theme at the heart of Jean Baptiste Robin's work, one from which this album draws it's name (Time Circles) and can only be translated by the language of sounds: that of time moving inexorably forward, gradually altering beings and things in it's path, on into death and oblivion. The title of the first piece, Crop Circles (2012), refers to the man made, symmetrical, geometric shapes found in crop fields. The slow introduction

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and the 'symphonic fragments' from Le Martyre de saint Sébastien fashioned by André Caplet less than a year after the work's first performance

With good reason: the huge work and it's highly systematic structure demonstrate with utmost clarity Bach's immense skill as a composer

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What do you see when you close your eyes and enter the dark realms of nightmares

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The Wray Brothers and Ray Men (naturally)