Sarah Maria Sun, Ensemble Proton Bern & soyuz21 – Bernhard Lang: Voice and Ensemble (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:20:26 minutes | 2,58 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bernhard Lang’s album Voice and Ensemble offers a sonic journey through three distinct compositions. In Das Hirn he juxtaposes a solo voice with a chamber ensemble, capturing the end-time force of Durrenmatt’s text through intense recitation and dynamic structures. The Travel Agency is on Fire explores William S. Burroughs’ cut-up experiments, referencing his innovative techniques in an electroacoustic piece enriched with synthesizers, samplers, and a processed electric guitar. In DW 16.4 ‘Songbook I.4,’ Lang transforms pop songs into a shattered past using the cut-up/scrambler program Abulafia. Lyrics undergo fragmented reconstruction, accompanied by damaged beats and scratch loops, creating a distinctive sonic landscape.
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Peyee Chen, Ensemble Proton Bern & Luigi Gaggero – Samuel Andreyev: In Glow of Like Seclusion (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:25 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Samuel Andreyev’s music is incredibly varied, from the sparse resonance of the Sonata da Camera, the ‘cartoon music’ – as the composer puts it -of Vérifications, characterised by primary colours and strong instrumental timbres; the Sextet in Two Parts which in contrast focuses on minute timbral shadings; and of course the cantata for solo voice and ensemble which is the title track of the album.
Performed by ensemble proton bern, conducted by Luigi Gaggero with the magical soprano voice of Peyee Chen on In Glow of Like Seclusion (set to verse by J. H. Prynne), this album was beautifully captured in Zurich in 2022.
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