Tarkovsky Quartet

Personnel: François Couturier (piano); Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone); Jean-Louis Matinier (accordion).Liner Note Authors: Andrey Tarkovsky; Charles H. De Brantes.Recording information: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano (12/2009).Photographers: Baptiste Lignel; Otra Vista.In 2005, French pianist François Couturier organized a quartet with cellist Anja Lechner, accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier, and soprano saxophonist Jean-Marc Larché to record Nostalghia: Song for Tarkovsky, released by ECM in 2006, an album that paid tribute to Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), not by playing music used in his films, but instead by creating new compositions, played in a jazz/classical hybrid, that evoked the moods of the filmmaker's works. The group toured as the Tarkovsky Quartet, and the 2011 album Tarkovsky Quartet is a follow-up recording in the same manner; since Couturier's 2009 solo piano CD Un Jour Si Blanc also paid tribute to Tarkovsky, it can be seen as the