VOX SOLA: Music for Solo Voice

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Release Date: 5th Oct 2018
Catalogue No: 95791
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 60 minutes

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Feldman, M: Only

Work length1:38

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Lorna Windsor (soprano)

Pousseur: Pour Baudelaire

Work length1:42

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Lorna Windsor (soprano)

Pablo: Tarde Poetas: Surcar vemos

Work length5:29

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Lorna Windsor (soprano)

Kurtág: Einige Sätze aus den Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs, Op. 37a

Work length11:00

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Lorna Windsor (soprano)
Recorded: 26-29 September 2017
Recording Venue: Museum of Santa Croce, Umbertide, Perugia, Italy

Touropa

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… an die aufgehende Sonne

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Ein gourmand

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Koan

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Ein merkwürdingen Gedanke

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Dank

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Geständnis

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Eine wichtige Bemerkung

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Franklin, der Erfinder

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Gebet

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Alpenspitzen näher der Sonne, aber kalt und unfruchtbar

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Im Dunkel rot werden

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Der gute Ton liegt dort um eine Oktave niedriger

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Das Mädchen hatte ein Paar sündlich schöne Hände

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Kirchtürme, umgekehrte Trichter, das Gebet in den Himmel zu leiten

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Als unsere selige Kuh noch lebte, sagte einmal eine Frau in Göttingen

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Ein einschläfriger Kirchstuhl

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Ein Mädchen kaum zwölf Moden alt.

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Bussotti: 7 Fogli: Lettura di Braibanti

Work length4:30

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Lorna Windsor (soprano)

Andriessen, L: A Song of the Sea

Work length3:36

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Lorna Windsor (soprano)

Kagel: Der Turm zu Babel

Work length22:07

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Lorna Windsor (soprano)
Recorded: 26-29 September 2017
Recording Venue: Museum of Santa Croce, Umbertide, Perugia, Italy

No. 4. Esperanto

Track length3:38

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No. 13. Portugiesisch (Portuguese)

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No. 5. Franzosisch (French)

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No. 6. Griechisch (Greek)

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No. 15. Spanisch (Spanish)

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No. 3. Englisch (English)

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No. 2. Deutsch (German)

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No. 17. Turkisch (Turkish)

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MacMillan: In angustiis…

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Lorna Windsor (soprano)

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A unique recital on record of haunting stories in many different languages, all harnessing the timeless expressive power of the human voice on its own, including several works new to the catalogue.

Lorna Windsor’s selection of eight 20th and 21st-century composers highlights how the voice incarnates different expressive forms more than any instrument. Left naked in its primeval state, the voice leads each composer to rediscover his personal voice, unfettered by convention. Six of the eight composers represented here were born within the same five years, from 1926 (Kurtág and Feldman) to 1931 (Bussotti, Kagel), in 1929 Pousseur, in 1930 De Pablo. Andriessen was born slightly after in 1939 whilst only MacMillan (b.1959) belongs to the following generation.

Bold simplicity is the keynote of Feldman’s brief setting of Rilke, Only: purely diatonic across its two minute span, whereas Henri Pousseur’s equally concise tribute to Baudelaire uses a 12-tone technique to create the illusion of diatonicism. In the hands of Luis de Pablo, Góngora’s evocation of a flight of storks creating patterns in the sky, is suggested by melismatic use of the voice, with arpeggios and filigree in quasi-instrumental notation, with arabesque-like writing which hints at distant Arabic hues of flamenco.

In Einige Sätze aus den Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs, György Kurtág set the caustic aphorisms of an 18th-century German physicist and writer with lightning flashes of insight and expression. By contrast, A Song of the Sea by Louis Andriessen requires the singer to sit (in performance) with a doll on her lap as she tells a sad little story with a simplicity redolent of folksong. Bussotti and Kagel both made far more thoroughgoing exploration of vocal technique in the Lettura di Braibanti and The Tower of Babel respectively.

Lorna Windsor closes her recital with the most extended work on the album: in angustiis II, a lament by James MacMillan which presents a grief-stricken image of humanity crying out to God. She is a specialist in early and contemporary repertoire who can call upon several languages as mother tongues.

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