Purcell / Crumb - Apparition
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Label: Onyx
Cat No: ONYX4021
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 29th October 2007
Contents
Works
ApparitionEarly Songs (3)
Celebrate this Festival, Z321
Music for a while, Z583
Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400
Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585
Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr, Z613
Artists
Christine Schafer (soprano)Eric Schneider (piano/amplified piano)
Works
ApparitionEarly Songs (3)
Celebrate this Festival, Z321
Music for a while, Z583
Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400
Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585
Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr, Z613
Artists
Christine Schafer (soprano)Eric Schneider (piano/amplified piano)
About
Purcell’s songs are well-known (especially Dido’s Lament) but this is only the second recording of the Crumb – Apparition in particular is unusual for its use of a prepared piano and wordless vocalises, but is highly approachable music nonetheless.
Schäfer and Schneider have juxtaposed these composers many times in recital. Though 300 years separate them, Schäfer finds they have much in common. Rather than a traditional ‘CD’ order for the songs ie Purcell, then Crumb, the songs are interspersed so that a story emerges. It begins with music – ‘Music for a while’ and as the ‘food of love’. Then comes a wedding, a love song and then we move towards jealousy, abandonment and death. Apparition (after poems by Walt Whitman written following the assassination of President Lincoln) presents a vision of death’s beauty. Short spoken lines from Shakespeare’s sonnets connect the songs perfectly
Schaefer is photographed in a wedding dress inside the Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The “bones” were inspired by the theme of “Apparition”, the semi-translucent O-card by the title.
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