Aria: Nicholas Isherwood performs John Cage
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2149
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st June 2015
Contents
Works
A Chant with ClapsA flower
Aria with Fontana Mix
Eight Whiskus
Experiences no.2
Nowth upon Nacht
Ryoanji (version for voice and percussion)
Sonnekus2
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Artists
Nicholas Isherwood (bass baritone)Works
A Chant with ClapsA flower
Aria with Fontana Mix
Eight Whiskus
Experiences no.2
Nowth upon Nacht
Ryoanji (version for voice and percussion)
Sonnekus2
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Artists
Nicholas Isherwood (bass baritone)About
Nicholas Isherwood made his début as Lucifer in Stockhausen’s 'Donnerstag aus Licht' at Covent Garden, at the age of 25, and has since collaborated closely with composers such as George Crumb, Hans Werner Henze, György Kurtág and Iannis Xenakis.
His relationship with John Cage soon developed into what he, in his liner notes to the disc, calls ‘a love affair’. The composer Sylvano Bussotti has remarked that ‘since the passing of Cathy Berberian, Nicholas Isherwood is the singer who best understands the spirit of the music of John Cage’.
On 'Aria', Isherwood presents most of Cage’s music for solo voice that is not included in the composer’s Song Books, and most pieces are here recorded for the first time by a male singer. The programme covers 43 years, from A Chant with Claps from the early 1940s to Ryoanji and Sonnekus2 of the 1980s, and includes the celebrated Aria, here performed with a new multi-channel tape realization of Cage’s Fontana Mix, by the Italian composer Gianluca Verlingieri.
In three of the songs (A Flower, The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs and Nowth Upon Nacht) Isherwood accompanies himself on a closed piano, tapping on the lid in the first two, and slamming it down on the keys in the third.
Ryoanji – named after the famous rock garden in Kyoto and described by Cage as ‘a garden of sounds’ – is a central work in Cage’s production, and exists in several versions. Here it is heard for voice and percussion, performed by Isherwood with the use of a crystal wine glass.
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