Helena Rasker, Niek de Groot, Francisco Anguas
Release Date: 29 November 2024
Label: Kairos Re ords
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9120010286230
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Christian Morgenstern's Galgenlieder (Gallowsongs) were created from 1895 onwards, were first published in 1905 and were intended as high-spirited word and syllable fun. These poems had already achieved considerable success during Morgenstern's lifetime. By the time of his death in 1914, when he was only 42 years old, the 13th edition had already been published. It was named after one of his excursion destinations, the Galgenberg (Gallow mountain) in Werder near Potsdam. About a century later, Sofia Gubaidulina selected 10 poems from this extensive collection for her setting and added five textless interludes with freely chosen titles: Reflection, Spiel (Game) 1, Spiel 2, Psalm and Improvisation.
Sofia Gubaidulina understands how to translate Morgenstern's spirit into her musical language very intelligently and imaginatively. Everything always kept clear and understandable, the comedy is retained. It is not an everyday occurrence to combine a singing voice with a double bass and percussion to create a song cycle. She works, and this is what defines her personal style, with parameters that are hardly known from contemporary music, such as motifs, repetitions, sequences and larger formal references. A special feature of this work, in contrast to chromaticism, is the often very wide intervals and a quasi-scenic approach to the music. The singer is expected to use four different means of expression: normal singing, singing with breath sounds, whispering and chanting.
Tracklisting
Charlotte Seither
Ensemble Musikfabrik, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Austin Wulliman; Ensemble Pamplemouse
Yezu Woo, Tomoki Park
SWR Vokalensemble, IRCAM, Yuval Weinberg
Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke, Bas Wiegers, Alessandro Baticci, Rafal Zalech
Marco Fusi
Vitalii Kyianytsia
The Bathers
Vanni Moretto; Atalanta Fugiens
Ryelandt Trio, Linde Verjans, Seamus Hickey
Luc Berge, Jan Michiels, Inge Spinette, Ilse Eerens
Trio Haydee
Yezu Woo, Tomoki Park
Biber Consort, Jakub Mitrik
Xenia Loffler
