Bernard Parmegiani,
Pour en finir avec le pouvoir d'Orphée.I was on youtube just now, scrolling through Parmegiani pieces looking for a title that did not look familiar. I have many of Parmegiani's pieces on CD (well, they are computer sound files all of them now), but I had a feeling there was music of his I hadn't heard.
And here it was.
Pour en finir avec le pouvoir d'Orphée. Not only a piece I hadn't heard before (though it is from 1972), but a piece that blew me away. Not a very long piece, the youtube clip clocks in at 23:25, but so set up that it seems as leisurely as a piece twice its length. And while it has a long section that is literally leisurely--slow and soft--it covers quite a lot of ground in twenty minutes. There's even a significant break about two thirds of the way through followed by music quite different from what has gone before. So it's even got two obvious parts in its short span.
Well, here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNnnhT_penEIt's well worth a listen, I think. I would recommend it, highly, whether you're an aficionado or a neophyte. And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go give it another whirl. Because I can.