Africa Sings
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Label: Orange Mountain Music
Cat No: OMM0155
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 16th September 2022
Contents
Artists
Angelique Kidjo (vocals)Martin Archrainer (bass-baritone)
Bruckner Orchester Linz
Works
SenyeBlack, Brown and Beige (orch. Maurice Peress)
Ife Songs (3)
Symphonische Gesange, op.20
Artists
Angelique Kidjo (vocals)Martin Archrainer (bass-baritone)
Bruckner Orchester Linz
About
The recital begins with Angélique Kidjo singing Bella Bellow's Senye, segueing into the premiere recording of Philip Glass's orchestral song-cycle Three Ifé Songs, composed for Kidjo in 2014. The focus goes then to American music with Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige in Maurice Peress's orchestral arrangement, before shifting to Europe and Alexander Zemlinsky's Symphonic Songs sung by Martin Achrainer which set, in translation into German, the poems of the great Harlem Renaissance poets Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Frank Horne.
Kidjo joins the venerable Bruckner Orchester Linz and conductor Dennis Russell Davies who cruise through the Ellington before digging deep into the Zemlinsky with baritone Martin Achrainer in tour-de-force performances from beginning to end.
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