Sarah Aristidou, Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg, Jörg Widmann – Enigma (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:04 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
‘Enigma’ is the Greek word for ‘riddle’, ‘mystery’, ‘secret’. At the moment of entering or leaving life, there is always a sound: the cry of a newborn baby or the last sigh of a dying person giving up the ghost. Soprano Sarah Aristidou sets out in search of the original sound in this programme, which opens with Andreas Tsiartas’s Lamento Turco . The voice emerges from silence in a wordless lament on the vowel ‘A’. The piece ends with a heart-rending, ‘archaic’ scream… Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise also uses the vowel ‘A’ … In Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen , a shepherd sings across the valley: ‘The farther my voice carries, the clearer it comes back to me.’ In Messiaen’s Répétition planétaire , the singer’s call ‘Ahi’ is accompanied by the music of the planets and stars… After visiting music by Wolf and Ravel, the odyssey ends with a work by Jörg Widmann for clarinet, soprano and piano founded on the vowels ‘A’ and ‘O’. Naturally, it is Widmann himself who plays the clarinet part, as he does in Schubert’s Hirt auf dem Felsen , with Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg at the piano.
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Sarah Aristidou – Thomas Larcher: The Living Mountain (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
Sarah Aristidou – Thomas Larcher: The Living Mountain (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:51 minutes | 1012 MB | Genre: Classical
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Austrian composer Thomas Larcher’s new album features premiere recordings of three strongly contrasting works. The Times has hailed Larcher’s music as a world “of haunting landscapes and dreams, stylistically disparate but fused by the composer’s astonishing ear and quizzical attitude to traditional forms”, a description borne out by the compositions here. The Living Mountain, for soprano and ensemble, draws upon the memoir of the Scottish poet and nature writer Nan Shepherd. Unerzählt is an intimate song cycle for baritone and piano, deploying texts of German writer W.G. Sebald. And Ouroboros, named for the serpent of eternity, is a powerful piece for cello and chamber orchestra. Recorded in Munich and Weerberg in 2021 and 2022 and produced by Manfred Eicher, The Living Mountain is the fourth New Series album of Larcher’s compositions.
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Sarah Aristidou – Æther (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:27 minutes | 629 MB | Genre: Classical
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The French-Cypriot soprano Sarah Aristidou joins Alpha and here presents her very first album. Twice named “Best Newcomer” by Opernwelt for two contemporary creations, she is a favourite interpreter of Jörg Widmann who has already written two works for her, and has sung under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle and François-Xavier Roth. Barenboim opened the doors of Berlin to her and the Orchester des Wandels, a group of musicians from several German orchestras, including the Staatskapelle Berlin, who have set themselves the objective of practising their art in a way that protects the planet: limiting the carbon footprint in all their activities, including this album. The packaging of the physical version is plastic-free and printed with organic ink. Alpha also supports the reforestation programme in Madagascar initiated by the orchestra.
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