Format: CD, Album
Performer: Lisa Bielawa
Album: A Handful Of World
Year: 2007
Label: Tzadik
Catalog#: 8039
Country: USA
Genre: Classical / 20th Century
Style: Avant-Garde/Chamber Music
Quality: MP3@320
Size: 109 MB
Witty, dramatic and poignant by turns, the songs offer a probing take on Kafka's texts
This is the first CD release by a remarkable composer/performer who has been Composer-In-Residence at the Boston Modern Orchestra Project for the past two years and a key member of the Philip Glass ensemble for well over a decade. Bringing together a sensuous sense of sound with lyrical sensibilities, Lisa ’s compositions point towards a new postmodern romanticism. Featuring her acclaimed song cycle for voice and violin written for and brilliantly performed by the versatile Carla Kihlstedt, an electronic piece featuring her own beautiful vocalizations and a religious piece for full chorus. This is a brilliant debut by a fresh new compositional voice. — Tzadik
“Witty, dramatic and poignant by turns, the songs offer a probing take on Kafka's texts, and the scoring — for one performer simultaneously singing and playing the violin — makes possible all kinds of tonal resonances and multipart counterpoint. The other music by Bielawa, a San Francisco native, is no less arresting or literarily astute.” – The San Francisco Chronicle
Personnel:
Lisa Bielawa: Voice
Carla Kihlstedt: Violin, Voice
Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble
Jacqueline Leclair: English Horn
Kristina Boerger: Director
1. Kafka Songs, for voice & violin (one performer)
1. 1. This time 3:52
1. 2. 2. A handful of world 3:56
1. 3. 3. Couriers 1:20
1. 4. 4. Ghosts 3:19
1. 5. 5. We ran 2:21
1. 6. 6. Lost 3:04
1. 7. 7. Finally 4:06
2. 8. Lamentations for a City, for mixed chorus & English horn 14:10
3. 9. Collective Cleansing, for voice & digital audio 11:58
COMPLETE TEXTS FROM A HANDFUL OF WORLD
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