Repertoire
BRYN HARRISON: Eight Voices (2011)
LINDA CATLIN SMITH: Uncertain, for 8 voices (2017)
JÜRG FREY: Shadow and Echo and Jade, for 8 voices (2014-16); Out of Chorales for 8 voices (World premiere)
SALVATORE SCIARRINO: Madrigali (Selection), for 8 voices (2008)
MORTON FELDMAN: Christian Wolff in Cambridge, for mixed choir (1963)
Artists
EXAUDI
Juliet Fraser, soprano
Emma Tring, soprano
Lucy Goddard, mezzo-soprano
Tom Williams, countertenor
Stephen Jeffes, tenor
David de Winter, tenor
Simon Whiteley, bass
Jimmy Holliday, bass
James Weeks, director
Program
SOUND INSTALLATION by composer Jürg Frey at the MUSEU DE LA MÚSICA from January 22nd 2019.The repertoire of prestigious vocal ensemble EXAUDI focuses on avant-garde composers and often takes them beyond the conventional circuits of contemporary music. With Eight Voices, Bryn Harrison works with chromatic pitch cycles creating complex repeated sequences. In Linda Catlin Smith’s work Uncertain she explores the perception that exists between two states: how can it not be day or night? The haunting piece by Jürg Frey, shows subtle composition simplicity with a focus on each sound of the ensemble and voices that morph with each other, coming together at different points in the work in harmonic sections of unadulterated expression. Madrigali by Salvatore Sciarrino, unveils a new sound ecology using a polyphony of minimal resources with six haikus by Matsuo Bashō. The programme concludes with Corpi celesti by Lorenzo Pagliei, and a brief choral piece by Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff in Cambridge, which uses a sequence of 16 chords and three solitary pitches with no set meter, causing the listener the usual perceptual bewilderment typical of the North American composer.
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