Maxime Goulet let the storm pass. The composer born in 1980, not in the mould, or perhaps simply too talented or too intelligent to bend to academic conformity, has quietly rolled his bump in the video game industry. The classical milieu had seen him again on occasion, with his Symphonic Chocolates in 2012 and the Montreal Video Game SymphonyOM project for the 375e anniversary of the metropolis. Here is his first “real symphony” of 40 minutes. And the project is major, because Maxime Goulet very clearly fits in the vein of Jacques Hétu (5e Symphony, On the banks of the Saint-Maurice), with pictorial music (adagio “Blackness”), very well written (the sound evocation of rain and ice, then the coda of “Tourmente”), which can only come from here (second movement “Chaleur “), while giving off a North American flavor in the very John Adams outlines of the finale. Important heritage disc, enriched with two other beautiful compositions: A whole day and Fishing story.
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