Copenhagen Clarinet Choir & Anders Lauge Meldgaard – Jeux d’eau

For centuries, the fountains of the Villa d’Este in Tivoli have drawn artists attuned to motion and sound. Franz Liszt captured their shimmer in Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este; Maurice Ravel later echoed that spirit in his own Jeux d’eau, turning water into rhythm and light. L.A. filmmaker Kenneth Anger shot his hallucinatory Eaux d’artifice (below) among Tivoli’s terraces, transforming the garden into cinematic fantasy. Now composer Anders Lauge Meldgaard, working with the Copenhagen Clarinet Choir, extends that lineage. At the center of Meldgaard’s Jeux d’eau is the New Ondomo, a Japanese reimagining of the early French electronic instrument, the ondes Martenot. Played by Meldgaard, it lends Jeux d’eau its distinctive voice: a tone that slides and shimmers, more sung than struck. Like the fountains that inspired it, the instrument’s sound resists containment, flowing between notes rather than fixing on them. The Ondomo’s liquid phrasing threads through the clarinet choir’s warm resonance, creating music that feels both ancient and newly electrified.

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