GUILLAUME LEKEU Kammermusik Ensemble Musique Oblique

The music of a doomed genius
For him the correcting of a work was ‘to make another, better one of it’. By virtue of the way they are made, the five pieces on this recording bear witness to Guillaume Lekeu’s quest – alas, an adventure cut short by typhoid – he was only 24. A century later the musicians of the Ensemble Musique Oblique pay tribute to a highly original composer and obsessive perfectionist.