Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Kaija Saariaho: Reconnaissance - Choral Music (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 364 Mb | Total time: 81:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2662 | Recorded: 2022
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 364 Mb | Total time: 81:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2662 | Recorded: 2022
This recording presents Kaija Saariaho's works for choir, a cappella and with electronics, and displays her virtuosity in the treatment of texts, which she endows with the full range of verbal expression. At least one of these works is also a discographic premières. Nuits, adieux, presented here both in it's a cappella version and with electronics, could be described as a lullaby, not so much for a sleeping child as for an elderly person sleeping out of our world. Funny and very serious at the same time, Horloge, tais-toi was conceived for a children choir. Écho! Deals with the myth of Echo and Narcissus, with the idea of echo being naturally extended with electronics that process and reverb the voices of the singers. Based on poems by German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, Tags des Jahrs display an archaic choral treatment expanded by sounds of the human voices, birds, wind and other natural phenomena. Überzeugung engages with medieval music and treats the contrast between light and dark as a trance-like interplay between past and present. Finally, Reconnaissance can be seen as a 'science-fiction madrigal'. Nils Schweckendiek and the Helsinki Chamber Choir initially performed this programme in concert in August 2022 as part of the celebrations surrounding Saariaho's 70th birthday.
Performer:
Helsinki Chamber Choir
Uusinta Ensemble (17-23)
Nils Schweckendiek conductor
Tracklist:
Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023)
01-08. Nuits, adieux (1991)
for four singers and electronics.
Texts: Jacques Roubaud and Honoré de Balzac
09. Horloge, tais-toi ! (2005)
for female choir and piano.
Text: Aleksi Barrière
10-12. Écho ! (2007)
for eight voices and electronics.
Text: Aleksi Barrière
13-16. Tag des Jahrs (2001)
for SATB chorus and electronics.
Texts: Friedrich Hölderlin
17. Überzeugung (2001)
for three female voices, crotales, violin and cello.
Text: Friedrich Hölderlin
18-23. Reconnaissance (2020)
for SATB chorus, percussion and double bass.
Text: Aleksi Barrière
24-31. Nuits, adieux (a cappella version, 1996)
for four soloists and choir.
Texts: Jacques Roubaud and Honoré de Balzac
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