Classical music grants film composers a different kind of freedom. Ennio Morricone’s Metamorfosi di Violetta dissects La Traviata’s heroine with filmic acuity. Tigran Mansurian’s Agnus Dei slips between chant and dissonance to evoke unresolved grief. John Corigliano’s Soliloquy turns inward still further, transforming private loss into quiet radiance. Bernard Herrmann never sought classical abstraction, yet Hitchcock’s musical alter ego -the mind behind Psycho and Vertigo- offers this album’s pièce de resistance: Souvenir du voyage, a nostalgic gem of profound cinematic sensitivity.
Nicolas Dupont, violin
Noémi Tiercet, violin
Sander Geerts, viola
Sébastien Walnier, cello
Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort, piano
Roeland Hendrikx, clarinet
Beyond Vertigo | Chamber music by film composers
Nominated for the Preis Deutsche Schalplatten Kritik 2026
Rádio Cultura FM (Brazil) 1/3/26 - João Marcos Coelho
CD da Semana
A música de câmara de Herrmann, Rota e MorriconeBeyond Vertigo – Musiq3 - Ca vient de sortir, Pierre Solot
"Des œuvres rares au concert ou au disque, et des musiciens de haut vol, pour un album délicieux de bout en bout, séducteur et très convaincant instrumentalement."MusicWeb International March 19, 2026 – Nick Barnard
... "Before considering the music, it is well-worth saying that all the pieces are quite beautifully played, both technically and musically, and recorded with natural warmth and sophistication." ...(about Souvenir du Voyage, Bernard Herrmann) "... of those I know, this new performance by Hendrikx and friends would go to the top of the list – very good though those others are. This is a genuinely beautiful, tender and poised rendering which captures the gentle yet passionate yearning score perfectly"
(about Nino Rota’s Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano) "Again, the playing is exemplary – ideally alert and nimble with the balance between the three disparate instruments perfectly handled by the antarctica engineers" "... The playing is superb throughout but the expressive range of the central movement is especially impressive."
(about John Corigliano's Soliloquy) "... The contained emotion and quiet intensity of the work is striking and again the Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble have the absolute technical and musical measure. The opening violin line is brutally high and exposed but played here by Nicolas Dupont with ethereal beauty. Not just here, Roeland Hendrikx’s clarinet playing reminded me of the great Alfred Boskovsky of Vienna Octet fame whose meltingly pure sound I find profoundly beautiful. The combination of that tonal purity with the emotional intensity of this work is genuinely moving."
... As will be clear by now, I find this disc to be a very impressive and wholly enjoyable survey of mainly unfamiliar music superbly presented. "... exceptional players" .
Chamber Music by Film Composers (Antarctica Records) - MusicWeb InternationalBRF1 - Klassikzeit
Klassikzeit: Kammermusik mit Zugabe - BRF1 RadioScherzo Magazine March 2026 - Miguel Angel Ordonez
En esta edición, el sexteto belga propone, en alusión a la obra maestra de Herrmann, una sugerente reflexión programática sobre el tránsito de la composición para cine a la música absoluta. El disco funciona, así, como una cartografía de esa tensión: piezas que reclaman autonomía formal conviven con otras que preservan una huella ficcional reconocible. Lejos de ser una contradicción, ese diálogo conforma el núcleo estético del álbum.
