Special offer. Ferneyhough: Shadowtime
Nicolas Hodges (narrator), Mats Scheidegger (guitar)
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Nieuw Ensemble, Jurjen Hempel
Bernstein's text makes oblique manoeuvres round the themes of Benjamin's work, and Ferneyhough sets them to complex yet frequently beautiful music, a mixture of tough and tender modernism —
2 CDs
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Excerpt,
- Nicolas Hodges, Mats Scheidegger
- Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Nieuw Ensemble
- Jurjen Hempel
Scene 1, New Angels - Transient Failures (Prologue)
Scene 2, Les Froissements d'Ailes de Gabriel
Ferneyhough: Shadowtime, Scene 3, The Doctrine of Similarity
- Nicolas Hodges, Mats Scheidegger
- Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Nieuw Ensemble
- Jurjen Hempel
Amphibolies I (Walk Slowly)
Dust to Dusk
Cannot Cross
Ferneyhough: Shadowtime, Scene 4, Opus Contra Naturam (Descent of Benjamin into the Underworld)
- Nicolas Hodges
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Katabasis
Kataplexy
Ferneyhough: Shadowtime, Scene 5, Pools of Darkness
- Nicolas Hodges, Mats Scheidegger
- Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Nieuw Ensemble
- Jurjen Hempel
Three Giant Mouths
Headless Ghoul
Karl Marx and Groucho Marx, with Kerberus
Ferneyhough: Shadowtime, Scene 6, 7 Tableaux Vivants Representing the Angel of History as Melancholia
- Nicolas Hodges, Mats Scheidegger
- Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Nieuw Ensemble
- Jurjen Hempel
Laurel's Eyes (After Heine's "Die Lorelei")
Tensions
Hashish in Marseilles
Ferneyhough: Shadowtime, Scene 7
- Nicolas Hodges, Mats Scheidegger
- Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Nieuw Ensemble
- Jurjen Hempel
Stelae for Failed Time