Ensemble Signal; The Arditti Quartett; Irvine Arditti
Release Date: 16 August 2019
Label: Coviello
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4039956919131
Genres: Classical Twentieth Century
Description
The music of David Felder is often imbued with esoteric, mystical, spiritual or philosophical themes. These have become more apparent in recent works but, as he argues in a 2015 interview with fellow composer Ethan Hayden, those elements have always been there. They’re just a little more overt now.
Yet even within those parameters Jeu de Tarot, his chamber violin concerto for Irvine Arditti and Ensemble LINEA, offers an intriguing question. The work is divided into seven movements, each named after one of the 22 cards of the Major Arcana of a Tarot deck: the cards most commonly associated with representations of the Tarot.
Each movement depicts a scene evoked by portrayals of each of these characters, especially those described by the Russian esotericist Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky in his “A New Model of the Universe� of 1917. Such illustrations are highly symbolic, crowded with internal and external references, requiring a lifetime’s study to interpret to their fullest.
The question is this: As listeners, how deep into those representations should we go? Is movement 1, The Juggler, a musical evocation of Will – the divinatory meaning of that card? Can we hear Deception in movement 7, Moonlight? Does movement 3 show us the High Priestess, guardian of knowledge, sat between two temple pillars, one black the other white, as Ouspensky describes her?
Featuring Irvine Arditti, the Ensemble Signal and the Arditti Quartet, conducted by Bard Lubman, this is a unique opportunity to explore his music.
Tracklisting
Nikolaus Heyduck
Christoph Timpe
Chorwerk Ruhr, Florian Helgath
Amy Lin
Pia Davila; Bernhard Reichel; Ensemble Musica getutscht
Laefer Quartet
Carine Tinney; Ziv Braha; ensemble feuervogel
Fanie Antonelou; Sofya Gandilyan
