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
About
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
- Kai Wessel (countertenor), Jeffrey Gavett (baritone)
- International Contemporary Ensemble
- Steven Schick
- Recorded: 23 October 2014
- Recording Venue: Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Kai Wessel (countertenor), Jeffrey Gavett (baritone)
- International Contemporary Ensemble
- Steven Schick
- Recorded: 23 October 2014
- Recording Venue: Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York, USA
- International Contemporary Ensemble
- Steven Schick
- Recorded: 23 October 2014
- Recording Venue: Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Recorded: 23 October 2014
- Recording Venue: Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York, USA
- International Contemporary Ensemble
- Steven Schick
- Recorded: 23 October 2014
- Recording Venue: Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York, USA
Awards and reviews
August 2017
The performances are brilliantly committed, though occasionally there is a slight lack of clarity in the instrumental profiles
