Par FELDMANN WALTER. Commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain In 1989 I first discovered the writings of Anne-Marie Albiach. H II linéaires especially impressed me, on the one hand through the sensual presence of the words, and on the other hand, above all, through the spatial disposition of the typography. This is a form of writing which has nothing to do with all that has existed before it…

A Melodrama Interspersed With Music. Par BENDA GEORG. Georg Anton Benda's melodrama „Medea' (1775) was one of the most successful German musical theatre works of the late 18th century. With a libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, the work soon became a great influence within the melodrama genre. For several decades, it was performed all over central Europe, developing an impressive reception histo…

Par DIGBY ANDREW. the same material is repeated in constantly varying configurations: no two bars have simultaneously the same number of instruments, direction of and number of discontinuities in the glissandi, number of crossings through the octave or unison between instruments. this last is the most important characteristic of the piece. many such crossing points are also punctuated by other ins…

For Narrator, Men's Chorus and Orchestra. Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. Shortly after the war, Schoenberg composed in his 99-bar monumental work depicting the suffering and oppression of an entire people. The story written by the composer himself describes the terror of the Nazi regime by example of a typical scene in the Warsaw Ghetto. In the concluding part of the men's choir, Schoenberg draws on the J…

for Mezzo Soprano and Piano. Par SOREY TYSHAWN. Death by Tyshawn Sorey was commissioned by the L. A. Opera for a streaming premiere by mezzo-soprano Amanda Lynn Bottoms in February 2021, with pianist Howard Watkins. Its text, by the great Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, imagines just a glimmer of light dawning over a bleak, nightmarish landscape, haunted by death, which the composer explicitly co…

Par MANTOVANI BRUNO. Monde évanoui (Fragments pour Babylone) est ma première oeuvre véritablement écrite pour choeur mixte, dans la mesure où les précédentes pièces destinées à un grand effectif vocal composées à l'attention d'Accentus laissaient la part belle aux solistes. Basée sur un texte écrit spécialement pour l'occasion par Pierre Grosz, auteur connu notamment pour ses paroles de chansons (…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. This collection includes all Schubert's versions for every lied to Goethe texts from the standard Breitkopf & Hortel complete-score edition of 1884-97. Eighty-four works, including 'Erlkonig', 'Gretchen am Spinnrade' and 'Heidenroslein'./ Répertoire / Voix