Enigma

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This is intriguing and original music making...the performance is tremendously versatile, seductive and white-hot. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2023
Catalogue No: ALPHA740
Label: Alpha
Length: 73 minutes

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Tsiartas: Lamento Turco

Work length8:16

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Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14

Work length5:21

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Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano), Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

Rachmaninoff: 'A-oo', Op.38, No. 6

Work length2:46

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Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano), Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (Von Chezy / Muller)

Work length12:04

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Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano), Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

Messiaen: Harawi: No. 6; Répétition Planétaire

Work length7:17

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Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano), Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

Sarah Aristidou, Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg: Enigma

Work length3:45

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Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano), Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

Wolf, H: An eine Æolsharfe (No. 11 from Mörike-Lieder)

Work length5:13

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Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano), Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

Ravel: Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques

Work length2:55

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Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano), Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

Schubert: Nachtstück, D672 (Mayrhofer)

Work length5:13

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Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano), Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

Messiaen: Harawi: No. 9, L'escalier redit, gestes du soleil

Work length5:58

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Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano), Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

Widmann, J: Sphinxensprüche und Rätselkanons

Work length14:12

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Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano), Sarah Aristidou (soprano)

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'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 Repetition planetaire, 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 Jorg 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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Christmas 2023

This is intriguing and original music making...the performance is tremendously versatile, seductive and white-hot.

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