David Felder: Les Quatre Temps Cardinaux
Ensemble Signal; Slee Sinfonietta; Brad Lubman
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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
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
Oslo Kammerkor, Hakon Daniel Nystedt
Hans-Christoph Rademann, NDR Chor Hamburg
Chorwerk Ruhr, Florian Helgath
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Dionysos Now!
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale