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Messiaen: Harawi

$34.99

Details

Composer
MESSIAEN, OLIVIER
Artist
Sun, Perifanova
Format
Vinyl
Label
Mode Records
Released
Mar 06, 2020
Catalog #
MOD-LP-310
UPC
764593031017

About

Harawi is a cycle of twelve songs scored for soprano and piano composed in 1945. Harawi (known to Spanish speakers as yaraví) designates a song about a fated love that ends in the death of both lovers. Messiaen remarked that "it is the story of Tristan and Isolde." The surrealistic text of Harawi is Messiaen's own. Using the musical structures Messiaen had created for Harawi, he built massive phrases in these songs, expanding space and time, creating extreme tenderness, vastness, clarity and abysses. In Harawi both lovers are not only human, but beings, which transform again and again. Destruction, pain, death, creation, joy, dance and love are not final - they are all everchanging particles of our interwoven cosmic existence. Already chosen as ONE OF THE BEST RELEASES OF 2019 (from a pre-release review copy) by Lynn René Bayley of Art Music Lounge: "This stunning album... features the still-young and somewhat outré German soprano Sarah Maria Sun... From the first notes of La ville qui dormait to the dying piano sound in Dans le noir, this is a performance that will absolutely rivet you... This clearly goes straight to the top of performances of this unusual and somewhat difficult song cycle..." Sarah Maria Sun is one of the foremost singers in the contemporary music scene with a repertoire of more than 900 compositions from the 20th & 21st centuries, including more than 320 world premieres. She was nominated for singer of the year by Opernwelt in 2017 for her role as Elsa in Sciarrino's monodrama Lohengrin and as Gwen in 4.48 Psychosis by Philip Venables. From 2007-2014, she was first soprano of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, a chamber ensemble of 7 singers that has been one of the world's leading pioneers of contemporary music for 30 years.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 No. 1. La ville qui dormait, toi 02:28
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. La ville qui dormait, toi
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  3. 2 No. 2. Bonjour toi, colombe verte 03:34
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Bonjour toi, colombe verte
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  4. 3 No. 3. Montagnes 03:30
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Montagnes
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  5. 4 No. 4. Doundou tchil 04:22
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Doundou tchil
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  6. 5 No. 5. L'amour de Piroutcha 04:40
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. L'amour de Piroutcha
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  7. 6 No. 6. Répétition Planétaire 06:32
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Répétition Planétaire
    Duration
    06:32
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  8. 7 No. 7. Adieu 08:00
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Adieu
    Duration
    08:00
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  9. Disc 2
  10. 1 No. 8. Syllabes 06:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 8. Syllabes
    Duration
    06:16
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  11. 2 No. 9. L'escalier redit, gestes du soleil 06:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 9. L'escalier redit, gestes du soleil
    Duration
    06:41
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  12. 3 No. 10. Amour oiseau d'étoile 05:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 10. Amour oiseau d'étoile
    Duration
    05:06
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  13. 4 No. 11. Katchikatchi les étoiles 02:01
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 11. Katchikatchi les étoiles
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova
  14. 5 No. 12. Dans le noir 07:23
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 12. Dans le noir
    Duration
    07:23
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Sarah Maria Sun, Stefka Perifanova