Lorenda Ramou & Ensemble Coriolis
Release Date: 27 October 2014
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948109883
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Athens-born but Munich-based composer Konstantia Gourzi makes her ECM New Series label debut with a recording of chamber music and music for solo piano.
"What historical voices commingle in the current idiom of a composer whose cultural roots lie in the birthplace of rhetoric, but who emigrated to take a musical apprenticeship in European constructivism?" asks Ingrid Allwardt in the liner notes. "What wordless airs, echoes of past ages, thread their way into the present day of her instrumental songs?" Gourzi's album supplies the answers.
With the exception of the early piano piece "noch fürcht' ich", composed in 1993, all the music is of recent vintage. It includes a number of piano miniatures, pieces dedicated to Lachenmann, Kurtág, Raue, Abbado, Barenboim and Rexroth, two string quartets ('Israel' and 'P-ILION, neun fragmente einer ewigkeit'), and 'Vibrato 1' and 'Vibrato 2' for string quartet and piano. Greek pianist Lorenda Ramou and the Ensemble Coriolis deliver committed performances. The album was recorded in Munich's Himmelfahrtskirche in 2012, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Personnel: Lorenda Ramou (piano), Ensemble Coriolis: Heather Cottrell, Susanna Pietsch (violin), Klaus-Peter Werani (viola), Hanno Simons (cello)
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Arvo Part
Thomas Larcher
John Holloway Ensemble
Heinz Holliger & Anton Kernjak
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise
Andras Schiff
Narratio Quartet
Beau Soir Trio
Martin Rummel, Stefan Stroissnig
Hanspeter Oggier; Marina Vasilyeva
Antje Weithaas, Denes Varjon
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Ensemble Agamemnon, Francois Cardey
