Ensemble Signal; Slee Sinfonietta; Brad Lubman
Release Date: 14 August 2020
Label: Coviello
Packaging Type: Super Jewel Case (SACD)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4039956919162
Composer/Series: David Felder
Description
David Felder’s expressive song cycle Les Quatre Temps Cardinaux, for soprano, bass, orchestra and electronics, is structured around the four stanzas of the eponymous poem by René Daumal (1908–1944).
The piece - presented here in SACD surround sound - begins with a recitation as Daumal’s poem is electronically diffused around the space, each stanza heard at one of its four cardinal points to form a circle.
This, like all the electronics throughout the piece, is based on a spoken recitation of the poem, its phonemes and formants broken up and digitally remoulded into drums, gongs, bells and more. The music, too, mirrors the poetry and stretches from lush and fervent to more fractured and anxious as the piece develops.
The piece is herein performed by a joint collection of Ensemble Signal and the Slee Sinfonia, with the extraordinary soloists Heather Buck and Ethan Herschenfeld, and the ultimate contemporary conductor, Brad Lubman.
Tracklisting
Polina Pastirchak, Anke Vondung, Sungmin Song, Milan Siljanov, Chorwerk Ruhr, Bochumer Symphoniker,
Maria Palaska, Yannis Tsanakaliotis, Andreas Nebl, Lee Santana
Daniel Sepec, Hille Perl, Lee Santana, Michael Behringer
Georg Sarkisjan, James Maddox
Sophie Gordeladze, Hector Sandoval, Luca Grassi, Martin Piskorski, Rory Dunne, Cappella Aquileia, T
Anette Maiburg, Emmanuel Ceysson, Ramon Ortega Quero, Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, D
Antje Rux, Lee Santana
Henning Wiegrabe; Capricornus Ensemble Stuttgart
Real Camara; Officium Ensemble
Dionysos Now!
Ensemble ArtChoral; Matthias Maute
Die Radierer
St. Florianer Sangerknaben; Ars Antiqua Austria; Gunar Letzbor
La Colombina; Schola Antiqua
Patrick Demenga; Latvian State Academic Choir; Youth Choir Kamer; Riga Cathedral Boys Choir; Andres
Chor "Astrolabium", Tomasz Drozdek T.ETNO, Kinga Litowska
