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Description
This new album combines two works for ensemble, performed by Ensemble KNM Berlin and Ensemble Musikfabrik with a major cycle for chamber choir, sung by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
The composer Ming Tsao writes music with a sensuality that arises out of a focus on the inherent
qualities of sound - what the composer calls its "materiality" - coupled to an extreme formal rigour and a highly precise, finely-crafted compositional style. In the foreground of his music is a contemporary conception of musical lyricism, which is fractured, multi-faceted and problematised to reflect the modern experience.
Many of Ming Tsao's works are the result of a critical and deep-thinking examination of the Western classical tradition as well as his serious engagement with Chinese traditional music.
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Tracklisting
Disc 1
Side 1
- 1. Tsao: Triode Variations (2019-20) for ensemble: Triodes I
- 2. Interlude I
- 3. Triodes II
- 4. Interlude II
- 5. Triodes III
- 6. Postlude
- 7. Das wassergewordene Kanonbuch (2016-17) for chamber choir: Noli me tangere
- 8. Die Zahlen
- 9. Hunc discas morem, si vis cantare tenorem: ut iacet attente, cantetur subdiapenthe
- 10. Weissgrau
- 11. Dum tria percurris quatuor valet. Tertius unum subque diapason sed facit alba moras
- 12. Wo?
- 13. Omnia per circuitum
- 14. Tenor crescit in duplo
- 15. Canon in Diapente
- 16. Cancer eat plenus sed redeat medius
- 17. Reverte citius
- 18. In gradus undenos descendant multiplicantes, consimilique modo crescent antipodes uno
- 19. Scinde vestimenta tua redeundo
- 20. Fuga trium temporum in diapente remissum
- 21. Pigmeus hic crescat, gigas decrescere debat/Incauda cerebrum, en est mirabile monstrum
- 22. Canon ad septimam
- 23. Das Geschriebene
- 24. Noctem verterunt in diem/Etrursum post tenbas spero lucem
- 25. Keine Sandkunst mehr
- 26. Finis est principium
- 27. Refuse Collection (2017) for ensemble
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