Release Date: 15 February 2019
Label: Neos
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 4260063118210
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Mimicry/Pieces With Tape
Description
The mimicri cycle is a central piece by the composer Charles Uzor and in many respects represents the quintessence of his work over the last few years.
Uzor, who was born in Nigeria and moved to Switzerland (where he now lives) at the age of seven, has engaged since 1995 with the music of Machaut and methods of defamiliarisation using fixed media. 'The phenomenon of concealment strikes me as a survival strategy', says Uzor, transferring the principles of disguise and mimicry as found in nature to his music. He not only takes nature as a formal model, but also borrows sounds from it and changes them, for example birdsong, which he electronically pitch shifts down eight octaves.
The main part of the cycle, Nri/mimicry, is scored for Ondes Martenot, percussion quartet and fixed media, with additional parts for piano and fixed media or only the latter. The world premiere recordings on this CD also include vocal music and chamber music in a variety of instrumentations.
All in all, this double CD offers a multi-faceted overview of Charles Uzor's work from recent years.
Tracklisting
Valerie Fritz; Nina Gurol
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; NHK Symphony Orchestra; New Japan Philharmonic; Yoichi Sugiy
NeoQuartet
Matt Ernst
Keiko Murakami; Kaori Tanaka; Aldo Campagnari; Yoshiko Hannya; Aki Kitajima; Aki Kuroda; Noriko Yak
GrauSchumacher Piano Duo; SWR Experimentalstudio
Ensemble risonanze erranti; Peter Tilling
Arditti Quartet; Christina Daletska; Consuelo Giulianelli
Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra; Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir; Alexander Rudin
Sonia Wieder-Atherton; Marius Atherton
Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Raphael Jouan; Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est; David Reiland
Quatuor Hermes
Quatuor Dutilleux
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Bar Avni
Olga Pashchenko; Il Gardellino
