PIERRE DE BETHMANN QUARTET  AgapéALÉA017 / 2025

Agapé cover

Credits

Pierre de Bethmann p, kb
David El Malek ts
Simon Tailleu b
Antoine Paganotti dms

Recorded at Studio Ferber (Paris) by Alban Sautour February 12, 2023. Mixed by Alban Sautour. Mastering by Raphaël Jonin at studio J Raph ing (Cordes-sur-Ciel).
Piano Steinway modèle D n° 619018, tuned by Bastien Herbin. Synth Korg Prologue.
Artwork by Tim Miltat. Photos by Didier Péron and Dominique Pelletier.

Digital booklet

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AGAPE, perhaps the most beautiful form of love, according to the idea that ancient Greece bequeathed to the world.

Perhaps this precious sentiment, so beneficial to music, was also dominant throughout this second day of recording at the Ferber studio in the depths of winter 2023. The quartet continued to build on the momentum of the first day, from which we already knew that a debut album had been born - CREDO, released in January 2024.

With the renewed energy of the following day, everyone tried to explore even further all the potential felt the day before, letting themselves be carried away by the dialogue between instruments, including the keyboard, and the simple joy of being and being able to play. And so, almost by surprise, in this mythical studio whose spirit and history seemed to carry the band with every step, the outlines of a new album appeared.

The result was five new compositions (plus a coda), each made up of more or less expected forms, more or less tame melodic lines, more or less complex harmonies and rhythms... as much a reflection of hard work as of the joys of the moment, again and again.

Ten years after GO, one day after CREDO, AGAPE offers the music of a quartet that continues on its way, as united by the love of a culture more than a century old as by the faith in a possible future, together above all.


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