Uzor - Mimicri, Pieces with Tape
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Label: Neos Music
Cat No: NEOS11821-22
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 15th February 2019
Contents
Works
Ave Maria II for mixed choirAve Maria V for mixed choir
Varek for woman's voice and piano
White Paperflowers descending on Tiananmen Square for 5 cellos
mimicri
sweet amygdala for violin, piano and tape
Artists
Caroline Ehret (ondes martenot)Ute Gareis (piano)
Isabel Pfefferkorn (soprano)
Elena Zhunke (violin)
Illya Buyalskyy (piano)
Percussion Art Ensemble Bern
Ensemble La Notte
SWR Vokalensemble
Conductors
Rupert HuberCharles Uzor
Works
Ave Maria II for mixed choirAve Maria V for mixed choir
Varek for woman's voice and piano
White Paperflowers descending on Tiananmen Square for 5 cellos
mimicri
sweet amygdala for violin, piano and tape
Artists
Caroline Ehret (ondes martenot)Ute Gareis (piano)
Isabel Pfefferkorn (soprano)
Elena Zhunke (violin)
Illya Buyalskyy (piano)
Percussion Art Ensemble Bern
Ensemble La Notte
SWR Vokalensemble
Conductors
Rupert HuberCharles Uzor
About
Uzor, who was born in Nigeria and moved to Switzerland (where he now lives) at the age of seven, has engaged since 1995 with the music of Machaut and methods of defamiliarisation using fixed media. ‘The phenomenon of concealment strikes me as a survival strategy’, says Uzor, transferring the principles of disguise and mimicry as found in nature to his music. He not only takes nature as a formal model, but also borrows sounds from it and changes them, for example birdsong, which he electronically pitch shifts down eight octaves.
The main part of the cycle, Nri/mimicri, is scored for Ondes Martenot, percussion quartet and fixed media, with additional parts for piano and fixed media or only the latter. The world premiere recordings on this CD also include vocal music and chamber music in a variety of instrumentations.
All in all, this double-CD offers a multi-faceted overview of Charles Uzor’s work from recent years.
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