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Chaya Czernowin: Wintersongs

Jeffrey Gavett (baritone), Kai Wessel (countertenor)

International Contemporary Ensemble, Steven Schick

The performances are brilliantly committed, though occasionally there is a slight lack of clarity in the instrumental profiles

Chaya Czernowin: Wintersongs

Jeffrey Gavett (baritone), Kai Wessel (countertenor)

International Contemporary Ensemble, Steven Schick

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The performances are brilliantly committed, though occasionally there is a slight lack of clarity in the instrumental profiles

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No other work marks the change and development driven nature of Czernowin's work as do the Wintersongs. The first wintersong was written in 2002 and the last in 2014, right after HIDDEN, which marks the outward cusp of the evolution in Czernowin's work. While the existential and elemental quality of the music are intensely present as before, the engagement with the slower and more temporal perception reveals an immersive quality. The music becomes an experience where rapture and continuity are shaping the sound as if it were living matter, while creating opening and closing spaces inside the structure.

Contents and tracklist

5 Action Sketches: No. 1, Breathe
Track length1:52
5 Action Sketches: No. 2, So Narrow
Track length3:39
5 Action Sketches: No. 4, Sliver
Track length2:29
Wintersong II "Stones"
Track length13:23
5 Action Sketches: No. 5, Sand
Track length1:56

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August 2017

The performances are brilliantly committed, though occasionally there is a slight lack of clarity in the instrumental profiles
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