Mythes Etoiles
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Label: Aurora
Cat No: ACD5083
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 21st October 2013
Contents
Artists
Latvian Radio ChoirConductor
Kaspars PutninsWorks
Four2Mouyayoum
Lux aeterna
Mythes etoiles
Tanto gentile
Gaw ek-dad kard
Artists
Latvian Radio ChoirConductor
Kaspars PutninsAbout
The Latvian Radio Choir has earned a reputation as one of the premier choral groups on the current musical scene. It is particularly celebrated for its performance of contemporary works. The album 'Mythes Étoliés' contains new music from the Scandinavian/Baltic area, alongside modern classics for a cappella choir by Ligeti and Cage.
The project 'Concrescence' was initiated by Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and is focused on new vocal performance techniques. This release is the first to present some of the resulting works on CD.
The main work on the recording is Thoresen’s 'Mythes Étoilés' (Myths of the Stars), a large-scale three movement setting of a poem by the composer Giacinto Scelsi. Latvian composer Martins Vilums’ choral work 'Gaw ek-dad kard' (On the conflict waged with the primeval ox) was inspired by the cosmological texts of the Bundahish, whilst the minimalist choral piece 'Mouyayoum' by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg has been described as cosmic trance music, and is a wordless exploration of vocal texture.
John Cage’s 'Four2” presents a series of sustained, extremely long-held sound-continuums to which voices are added or subtracted, creating vibrant overtones and mysterious inner motion within the music. The works of Estonian composer Toivo Tulev also possess a mystical, incantatory dimension. In 'Tanto Gentile' he strives to balance the expressionistic aspects of contemporary music with the sense of the eternal to be discovered in sacred music.
The disc also includes Gyorgy Ligeti's 'Lux Aeterna', a work that has gained the reputation of a modern classic since it was used in the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 - A Space Odyssey.
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