ramon lazkano
NEWS :
La Main gauche : the video of the opera premiere can be watched on Philharmonie Live La Main gauche (film) . A documentary is also available on youtube La Main gauche (documentaire)
Préludes : the CD is now available at bastille musique with Ensemble Cairn conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne
Mare Marginis (piano concerto) : the CD Erato is now available with Alexandre Tharaud and the WDR Orchester conducted by Sylvain Cambreling
CAUGHT BETWEEN CLOUD AND CLAY
Looking over more than three decades of composing, it becomes self-evident that the music of Ramon Lazkano is profoundly indebted to the natural world, this unceasing creator of myths and origins – and myths of origins, and of the unconscious and unseen framework of materials that informs human existence. His transparency of thought and of notation helps to set him apart; his works, even short ones, tend toward a cumulative power. Dan Albertson, 2020
A sound, like a marble block, can be carved, scratched, scraped, hammered, burst out, until a suitable territory, an extended chord, is found. A form may be a portion of time into which we pour some melted matter, a continuous sound - or still, we might listen to music through emptiness, absence, and silence, a screened music perceptible through its invisible marks. Ramon Lazkano