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Format: CD
Jun 1998
Record Label: Harmonia Mundi (France)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 093046718725 |
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Details
Track Listing
1. Litany for the Whale
2. Five
3. Song Books: Solo for Voice 22
4. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
5. Experiences 2
6. Mesostics re and not re Marcel Duchamp (36)
7. Aria
8. The Year Begins to be Ripe
9. Song Books: Solo for Voice 52 "Aria no 2"
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Allison Zelles, Paul Elliott | | Distributor: | Harmonia Mundi (Distribut | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes
Paul Hillier has previously explored the edges of classical music, from the Middle Ages to the late 20th Century, and with his Theatre of Voices he seems to have found material in John Cage to span his interests. A couple of the Cage creations, including the title opening piece and the closer, "The Year Begins to be Ripe," are suggestive of early liturgical chants, while the two "Arias" are thoroughly modern in their use of multilingual, seemingly disassociated fragments of spoken text and song alongside sound effects and electronically-created distortions.
There are other works which reveal how Cage pursued his mission of freeing us from the academic restrictions of Western classical music, dating from the earliest of these vocal compositions ("The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs," based on James Joyce's 'Finnegan's Wake' in 1942) to the latest ("Five," written in 1988, four years before the composer's death). The former is a dirge intoned in Hillier's pleasantly haunting baritone to the percussive accompaniment of "closed piano;" the latter arrays sustained tones from male and female voices along luminous lines suggestive of a Mondrian painting. The Theatre does an effective job of awakening our ears to the extraordinary.
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