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2022-05-13 08:02:09
The Earth Moves: The Tallis Scholars in Antoine Brumel and David Lang
[…] also richly textured and had a similar feel, bringing the mass to a conclusion with glorious waves of sound. It worked well with just 12 voices in St Martin in the Fields, but I still hanker after a performance with 50 singers in a larger acoustic. David Lang, co-founder of the American musical collective Bang on a Can, is best known for his 2007 work, The Little Match Girl Passion; written for Paul Hiller and Theatre of Voices it has been taken up by many other ensembles. For his companion piece to the Brumel, Lang wrote sun-centred, a deeply philosophical work based on a pun. When tried by the Roman Catholic Church for his claim that the Earth moved around the Sun, Galileo formally recanted but is reputed to have said at the end of the process, 'and yet it moves'. This is the final text of Lang's work, he opens with […]
2022-04-21 05:10:00
Recent Releases, No. 28
By Karl W. NehringJóhannsson: Drone Mass. One Is True; Two Is Apocryphal; Triptych in Mass; To Fold & Remain Dormant; Diving Objects; The Low Drone of Circulating Blood, Diminishes with Time; Moral Vacuums; Take the Night Air; The Mountain View, The Majesty of the Snow-clad Peaks, From a Place of Contemplation And Reflection. Paul Hiller, conductor; American Contemporary Music Ensemble (Clarice Jensen, artistic director and cello; Ben Russell, violin; Laura Lutzke, violin; Caleb Burhans, viola); Theatre of Voices (Else Torp, Kate Macoboy, Signe Asmussen, Iris Oja, Paul Bentley-Angell, Jakob Skjoldborg, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Steffen Bruun). Deutsche Grammophon 483 7418.Here we have another recording of music from the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannson (1987-2018), whose compositions have been reviewed several times before in Classical Candor. Jóhannson was a composer with a rich imagination who was fascinated with sounds, so you never quite knew what he might come up with next. As the […]
2020-12-21 01:41:00
The Annual Christmas post
[…] Label: deutsche harmonia mundi 88985332982 Recorded: Jan 2016 [flac & scans] Download 1fichier uptobox zippy João Rodrigues Esteves (c1700-after 1751) Mass for 8 voices, Christmas Responsories Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford Stephen Darlington - direction Label: Nimbus Records NI 5516 Recorded: Nov 1996 [flac & scans] Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Il dulci jubilo Music for the Christmas season by Buxtehude and friends Theatre of Voices Paul Hillier - direction Label: Dacapo 6.220661 Recorded: Jan/Feb 2017 [flac & scans] Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Johann Schelle (1648-1701) Actus Musicus auf Weyh-Nachten Monika Mauch, Myriam Arbouz (soprano), Marian Dijkhuizen (contralto), Georg Poplutz, Jakob Pilgram (tenor), Raimonds Spogis (bass) Kölner Akademie, Concerto Palatino Michael Alexander Willens - direction Label: CPO 555 155-2 Recorded: Jan 2017 [flac & scans] Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Johann […]
2020-10-24 08:37:00
Hologram future?
[…] Kong harbor, I initiated a university research project with installation artist Kingsley Ng in how arts and computer science could reflect on global climate change, a guilt-free musical discourse on the indisputable facts. We had a plan - a big data-fueled art and music installation on how we relate to air in Hong Kong, which, with no heavy industry of its own, has lost its clear skies increasingly to smog from an industrializing world. Theatre of Voices would sing it, we would work with groups of young people from the Hong Kong Children’s Choir - the real stakeholders of our current-day decisions - to design a text to sing that they actually wrote, and bring audiences in small groups on a narrative adventure through a lush and lavish greenhouse in the center of the city, the Forsgate Conservatory. ARIA 空氣頌would combine symbolism, star performers, and a scheduled premiere in September […]
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