7090020182841

Cikada Live - Huddersfield / Donaueschingen

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Format: CD

Cat No: LWC1262

Release Date:  12 January 2024

Label:  Lawo

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  7090020182841

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary Classical  

  • Description

    This new release from LAWO Classics features recordings of works by
    contemporary composers Rolf Wallin, Klaus Lang and Richard Barrett,
    performed here by Norweigan contemporary music ensemble Cikada
    Seven Disobediences is my answer to the tradition of character pieces for piano, such as Debussy's Preludes and Grieg's Lyric Pieces; short, relatively simple but concise miniatures with a motto, and usually with one prevalent sentiment--like a musical short story. The title of each of the seven pieces is an imperative consisting of four letters: Seek! Push! Lean! Etc - Rolf Wallin.



    Parthenon, or the construction of beauty. In my work as a composer, the two
    main infuences were the Greek and the Japanese tradition of art and thought.
    Both traditions found ways of representing their world views in great pieces of
    architecture. Architecture mirrors a world view. Parthenon is refecting basic
    assumptions of Greek aesthetics. 'Parthenon' is something like a photographic
    negative of the Greek structure: In the Greek frieze, marble is used to represent ever changing life; my piece uses the most ephemeral material - sound - to represent architecture. - Klaus Lang.



    One of the highlights of my compositional activity at the beginning of the 21st
    century was my collaboration with Cikada and Christian Eggen, which culminated in several runs of performances, and a CD recording, of the extended composition DARK MATTER, a collaboration also with installation artist Per Inge Bjorlo and the Elision Ensemble from Australia. The three pieces recorded here were written for Cikada and performed several times as a "triptych". The performance at Huddersfeld was particularly memorable. - Richard Barrett

    "the whole package adds up to an attractive seventy-minute programme of gripping new music. […] I fervently commend Klaus Lang's magisterial Parthenon to all-comers." – MusicWeb International

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Rolf Wallin: Seven Disobediences: I. Seek
      • 2. II. Push
      • 3. III. Sink
      • 4. IV. Spin
      • 5. V. Stab
      • 6. VI. Lean
      • 7. VII. Quit
      • 8. Klaus Lang: parthenon.: I.
      • 9. II.
      • 10. Richard Barrett: Dark Matter: The Empire of Lights
      • 11. Dark Matter: khasma
      • 12. stirrings: I.
      • 13. II.
      • 14. III.
      • 15. IV.
      • 16. V.
      • 17. VI