Sprechgesänge (Speech Songs)

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Even a cursory look at the soloists and conductors involved indicates the level of musicianship brought to these performances, as well as the quality of those with whom musikfabrik collaborates.... — International Record Review More…

Release Date: 1st Mar 2010
Catalogue No: WER68512
Label: Wergo
Series: edition musikFabrik
Length: 60 minutes

Harvey, J: Sprechgesang

Work length10:03

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Ensemble Musikfabrik
Peter Rundel

Furrer: Recitativo

Work length13:55

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Ensemble Musikfabrik, Salome Kammer
Beat Furrer

Aperghis: Babil

Work length11:33

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Ensemble Musikfabrik
Sian Edwards

Chin, U: Cantatrix Sopranica

Work length25:21

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Ensemble Musikfabrik, Anu Komsi, Piia Komsi, David Cordier
Stefan Asbury

I. Warming up - Tuning

Track length5:58

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II. Singing, Sing it!

Track length2:50

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III. Cis n'est pas Ces

Track length1:29

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IV. Boule de Neige

Track length2:15

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V. Con tutti i Fantasmi

Track length4:31

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VI. Yue Guang – Clair de Lune

Track length2:11

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VII. Echo – Shadow – Canon

Track length3:02

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VIII. EtüdedütE – Immense Voix

Track length3:05

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'Sprechgesänge' – 'Speech Songs' run throughout the program of the first CD in the new 'edition musikFabrik' on WERGO: Voices try out their instrumental possibilities, and instruments savor their vocal potential.

In his 'meditation on the nature of language as sound,' Jonathan Harvey alludes directly to the 'inventor' of the Sprechgesang, Arnold Schönberg. Beat Furrer provides the protagonist of Arthur Schnitzler’s 'Fräulein Else' with several different 'language spaces' – like an encephalogram, he records the oscillations of an interior monologue. Georges Aperghis teaches a clarinet to 'babble,' and Unsuk Chin gives an answer to a question from Georges Perec: What might it sound like to throw rotten tomatoes at singers of the species 'cantatrix sopranica'? In dreamlike fashion, Chin causes multiple musics of various styles and periods to swirl through one another in a furious piece.

The live recordings document highlights from the concert series 'musikFabrik im WDR', with noted soloists such as David Cordier, Salome Kammer and Anu and Piia Komsi, and the conductors Stefan Asbury, Sian Edwards, Beat Furrer and Peter Rundel. Two of musikFabrik’s members, Carl Rosman and Peter Veale, provide evidence of the ensemble’s soloistic qualities.

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Even a cursory look at the soloists and conductors involved indicates the level of musicianship brought to these performances, as well as the quality of those with whom musikfabrik collaborates. Hopefully future
volumes in this edition will be no less commendable.

Interaction between speech and music, and the possibilities of their interchangeability, are at the heart of this fascinating collection... An utterly absorbing disc.

Sprechgesänge (Speech Songs)

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