Les Espaces Acoustiques Grisey

Judging by its intensely concentrated performance clear layout and stunning sound this splendid recording seems the definitive rendition of gérard grisey s les espaces acoustiques perhaps the clearest explication of the spectral school s theories and practices but certainly one of that movement s most expansive works. Les espaces acoustiques gerard grisey died in paris in november of 1998 at the unready age of 52. He and his comrades tristan murail and hughes dufour belonged to the french compositional school called spectralism but neither grisey nor his music were well known in the u s.