Release Date: 29 January 2012
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318590014530
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Mari Takano
Description
BIS present a disc of works by the Japanese composer Mari Takano, composed between 2003 and 2009. The four duos and trios that share the title LigAlien are all results of the idea of what would it be like to implant 'alien' music into one of Ligeti's works. Interspersing the four 'LigAliens' are two solo pieces, Jungibility for piano and Full Moon for violin and electronics, which also embrace a wealth of ideas both musical and otherwise from Duke Ellington, Omar Sosa and Stockhausen (Jungibility) and Bjork, Pina Bausch and Miles Davis (Full Moon). The closing Flute Concerto is the largest work on the disc. The present recording also appears on a previous BIS disc (BIS-CD-1649), released in 2008, and the work was described by reviewers as 'a score which can move to a pop music beat without sinking into triviality or bombast' (in Gramophone).
Tracklisting
Ruby Hughes; Jonas Nordberg; Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann
Alina Ibragimova; Cedric Tiberghien
Malin Bystrom, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Sondergard
Masaaki Suzuki
Franz Halasz
CLARE HAMMOND
Chelys Consort Of Viols
Plowright
Julian Joseph and Marcelo Bratke
Timothy Ridout; Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne; Jamie Phillips
The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Adam Field, Sarah MacDonald
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, Sachin Gunga, David Price
Julien Van Mellaerts, Dylan Perez
Aisslinn Nosky and Yiheng Yang
Valerio Celentano
Valentina Danelon/Cristina Santin
