Robert Marcel Lepage, clarinettist, pays tribute to scientists, to today’s musicians and to this Renaissance man, little-known as a musician, Leonardo Da Vinci. Inspired by the personal history of this ingenious artist/inventor, Lepage has composed a remarkably eloquent music: a hydro-mechanic alliance of accurate writing, improvised music and sound machine.

Musicians Michel F Côté, Jean Derome, Bernard Gagnon, Mario Légaré and René Lussier back him on this record. Adieu Leonardo! is the second Robert Marcel Lepage record project, following the previous La traversée de la mémoire morte (AM 011), released in 1987. Far from being an adieu, Adieu Leonardo! is a long-awaited follow-up, a true renaissance!

Track Listing

    • 1
      Les Alpes
      6m39s
    • 2
      Proportioni practicabili
      2m39s
    • 3
      La forteresse Borgia
      3m49s
    • 4
      La salle aux miroirs
      6m05s
    • 5
      Perpetuum mobile
      3m31s
    • 6
      Le sourire de la Joconde
      3m19s
    • 7
      Musica figurazione delle cose invisibili
      5m00s
    • 8
      La machine à lavis
      4m12s
    • 9
      Proportioni practicabili
      39s
    • 10
      L’oiseau est un appareil fonctionnant selon des lois arithmétiques
      4m27s
    • 11
      Vinci face au lacis doré
      4m39s
    • 12
      Proportioni practicabili (épilogue)
      3m59s
Total duration: 49m14s

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