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Chaya Czernowin: Shifting Gravity

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Details

Composer
CZERNOWIN, CHAYA
Artist
Daubresse, Starke, Ircam, Ascolta, Engel, Quatuor Diotima, Stockha
Format
CD
Label
Wergo
Released
Feb 01, 2011
Catalog #
WER67262
UPC
4010228672626

About

WERGO presents first recordings of chamber music works by the Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin. The eponymous series of works, 'Shifting Gravity', from 2008 connects the string quartets 'Anea Christal' with the compositions 'Sheva' and 'Sahaf'. The second part of the CD consists of the 'Winter Songs III' (2003). This WERGO production shows a different side of the artist who was born in Haifa in 1957 and who, up to now, has been appreciated mainly for her stage works, in particular for the much noticed music theatre play 'Pnima ... Ins Innere' or her adaptation of Mozart's 'Zaïde / Adama'. The instrumental works were all created after the music-theatre plays, associating notions like paralysis, adherence, proliferation. The field of tension resulting therefrom corresponds with Czernowin's own descriptions: 'Anea is the imaginary name of a 'music crystal' created from a latticework of corresponding musical gestures according to the model of an ionic crystal'. 'Winter Songs' are described by her as follows: 'The whole cycle reflects the aspect of winter which is about being pulled into the inner cave... At the same time, underneath, in the ground, the roots of life slowly grow stiff and blindly start to search for a path between the stones'.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 Anea Crystal: I. Seed 1 06:53
    Track
    1
    Title
    Anea Crystal: I. Seed 1
    Duration
    06:53
    Composer
    Chaya Czernowin
    Ensemble
    Quatuor Diotima
  2. 2 Sahaf 07:07
    Track
    2
    Title
    Sahaf
    Duration
    07:07
    Composer
    Chaya Czernowin
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Nikel
  3. 3 Anea Crystal: II. Anea 09:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    Anea Crystal: II. Anea
    Duration
    09:18
    Composer
    Chaya Czernowin
    Ensemble
    Quatuor Diotima
  4. 4 Sheva (Seven) 07:35
    Track
    4
    Title
    Sheva (Seven)
    Duration
    07:35
    Composer
    Chaya Czernowin
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Ascolta
    Conductor
    Jonathan Stockhammer
  5. 5 Anea Crystal: III. Seed 2 08:09
    Track
    5
    Title
    Anea Crystal: III. Seed 2
    Duration
    08:09
    Composer
    Chaya Czernowin
    Ensemble
    Quatuor Diotima
  6. 6 Winter Songs III: Roots 16:50
    Track
    6
    Title
    Winter Songs III: Roots
    Duration
    16:50
    Composer
    Chaya Czernowin
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Courage
    Conductor
    Titus Engel