CDVoices of Angels / Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble, Andrej Power, Lawrence Power, Christianne Stotijn.
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Work | Composer | Performers | Duration | |
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Voices of angels (1996) for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano | Brett Dean | Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble | 28 mins, 13 sec. |
Also includes: Ein Engel / Sofia Gubaidulina -- No. 8 of 14 Romances, Op. 34 / Rachmaninov -- Chorale prelude ‘Vor Deinen Thron tret ich hiermit’, BWV 668 / JS Bach -- Meditation über den Choral ‘Vor Deinen Thron tret ich hiermit' / Sofia Gubaidulina -- No. 1 from Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91 / Wagner -- No. 7 of 12 Songs, Op. 21 / Rachmaninov -- 'Hymn II' from Four Hymns / Schnittke.
Product details
The Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble is - as the name implies - based
in Stockholm, and consists of five of the city's leading
musicians. Project-based and often inviting guest performers, the
SSE is known for its imaginative programmes built around a
particular event or concept and bringing together music from
various genres and eras. For its first album on BIS the ensemble has taken Brett Dean's Voices of
Angels as their point of departure, a work scored for the
same forces as Schubert's 'Trout quintet' and inspired by Rainer
Maria Rilke's first two Duino Elegies: 'Angels (it's said) are
often unable to tell whether they move amongst the living or the
dead.'
Dean's work from 1996 opens a programme which ranges from Bach to
Sofia Gubaidulina, and includes various scorings for between two
and six performers. The angels reappear in songs by Wagner and
Gubaidulina performed by Christianne Stotijn, one of the
ensemble's guests on this disc - but it is also safe to assume
that they are standing around the heavenly throne which Bach
approaches in the chorale prelude 'Vor Deinen Thron tret ich
hiermit' - here transcribed for strings. The same prelude is the
subject of Gubaidulina's Meditation, while the disc closes with a
work by Gubaidulina's friend Alfred Schnittke, namely his Hymn
for cello and double bass.
Duration: 65 min.
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