Uzor - Mothertongue
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Label: Neos Music
Cat No: NEOS1210809
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 27th August 2021
Contents
Works
8'46’" George Floyd in memoriamGo - 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 HuberCharles Uzor
Works
8'46’" George Floyd in memoriamGo - 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 HuberCharles Uzor
About
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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