Nicholas Isherwood; Anna Clementi; Sandro Naglia
Release Date: 21 April 2023
Label: Neos
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260063123184
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
The French photo-documentary artist JR and his art, along with Luigi Nono, are paradigmatic for Ernst Helmuth Flammer's work for vocal soloists, with the great singer Nicholas Isherwood being a significant source of inspiration for his composing. Isherwood's broad experimental stock of vocal textures, of various very denatured vocal techniques, a plateau for alienation techniques, and equally, his strongly brushed against the grain expressive palette, offer a broad reservoir of musical commentary levels, semantically expressive even without lyrics.
Spaziofonia - Polimorfia II for 4-channel-tape uses exclusively fundamental materials recorded by Nicholas Isherwood. These materials are algorithmically alienated, transposed, and inverted, meaning that a structure resonates retrogradely.
Homs, gegen das Vergessen ... Paris, aus einem Totenhaus ...Unterwerfung ...? - An epic cantata for solo baritone, searches for truths, truths of the Umanità , which are not linear, which are not simple, there is no one truth. Each of these seven parts is introduced with the probing question "What is truth?" recurring, as it were, as a refrain.
The title Nach vorn ... 4, spatial à l'évocation infini et échappée for bass voice and tape could read: "Forward ... 4, spatially infinite in the imagination and escaped" (in the sense of no longer graspable, unimaginable). "The world as volition and imagination", as a utopia (!), as a dream (?). Yes and no! Not the world we perceive.
AlmerÃa, tu terra quemada the six-part text, interrupted by choruses that develop continuously, is juxtaposed with the music, illustrating and commenting in an alienated way.
Tracklisting
Claude Lenners, Noise Watchers Unlimited Ensemble
Munchener Kammerorchester, Ilan Volkov, Jessica Niles, Tobias Vogelmann
Tobias Eduard Schick
Cuarteto Ornati
Festival Strings Lucerne Chamber Players
Klara Tomljanovic, Alberto Carretero, Marton Illes, Vito Zuraj, Steingrimur Rohloff, Nikolaus Brass, Detlef Heusinger
Ensemble Musikfabrik, Carl Rosman, Patrick Stadler
lovemusic & Santiago Diez Fischer
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Gavin Bryars
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
L'Itineraire, Leo Margue
Hashtag Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
Joel-Francois Durand
Elisabeth Harnik
