Uzor - Mothertongue | Neos Music NEOS1210809

Uzor - Mothertongue

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Label: Neos Music

Cat No: NEOS1210809

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 27th August 2021

Contents

Artists

Isabel Pfefferkorn (mezzo-soprano)
Charles Uzor (tape)
Domenico Cerasani (tape)
Ernst Brunner (percussion)
Lux Nova Duo
Ensemble Mothertongue
Ensemble La Notte
Ensemble Quasi Fantasia

Conductors

Rupert Huber
Charles Uzor

Works

Uzor, Charles

8'46’" George Floyd in memoriam
Go - Septet for a Ballet imaginaire
Mothertongue
Princesse de Samarkand
Sephardic lilt.mimicri
White Paperflowers descending on Tiananmen Square for 5 cellos
Zimzum for 2 guitars

Artists

Isabel Pfefferkorn (mezzo-soprano)
Charles Uzor (tape)
Domenico Cerasani (tape)
Ernst Brunner (percussion)
Lux Nova Duo
Ensemble Mothertongue
Ensemble La Notte
Ensemble Quasi Fantasia

Conductors

Rupert Huber
Charles Uzor

About

The work of the composer Charles Uzor (b.1961) reflects his African origins - and with it the story of his emigration to Switzerland as a seven-year-old.

This also and especially applies to the new double album entitled “Mothertongue”.

Mothertongue is a five-part cycle for mezzo-soprano, tape and ensemble. Uzor is looking for the sounds of his own mother tongue, Igbo, which he lost as an adolescent. The overall programme of the two CDs is a journey through Uzor’s musical and spiritual cosmos.

The works, created between 1989 and 2020, deal with the uprising on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the fairy tale of the Princess of Samarkand, the negative theodicy of the Italian philosopher Sergio Quinzio and the brutal murder of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis in 2020. Charles Uzor’s topics are socially relevant. In this sense, this is a particularly haunting portrait of the Swiss-Nigerian composer.

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