Vox Sola: Music for Solo Voice / Windsor

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
November 9, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Lorna Windsor
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 09, 2018
    • UPC
      5028421957913
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95791
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Only

      Composer: Morton Feldman

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    2. Pour Baudelaire

      Composer: Henri Pousseur

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    3. Tarde Poetas: Surcar vemos

      Composer: Luis de Pablo

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    4. Touropa

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    5. … an die aufgehende Sonne

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    6. Ein gourmand

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    7. Koan

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    8. Ein merkwürdingen Gedanke

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    9. Dank

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    10. Geständnis

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    11. Eine wichtige Bemerkung

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    12. Franklin, der Erfinder

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    13. Gebet

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    14. Alpenspitzen näher der Sonne, aber kalt und unfruchtbar

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    15. Im Dunkel rot werden

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    16. Der gute Ton liegt dort um eine Oktave niedriger

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    17. Das Mädchen hatte ein Paar sündlich schöne Hände

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    18. Kirchtürme, umgekehrte Trichter, das Gebet in den Himmel zu leiten

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    19. Als unsere selige Kuh noch lebte, sagte einmal eine Frau in Göttingen

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    20. Ein einschläfriger Kirchstuhl

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    21. Ein Mädchen kaum zwölf Moden alt.

      Composer: György Kurtág

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    22. 7 Fogli: Lettura di Braibanti

      Composer: Sylvano Bussotti

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    23. A Song of the Sea

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    24. No. 4. Esperanto

      Composer: Mauricio Kagel

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    25. No. 13. Portugiesisch (Portuguese)

      Composer: Mauricio Kagel

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    26. No. 5. Franzosisch (French)

      Composer: Mauricio Kagel

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    27. No. 6. Griechisch (Greek)

      Composer: Mauricio Kagel

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    28. No. 15. Spanisch (Spanish)

      Composer: Mauricio Kagel

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    29. No. 3. Englisch (English)

      Composer: Mauricio Kagel

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    30. No. 2. Deutsch (German)

      Composer: Mauricio Kagel

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    31. No. 17. Turkisch (Turkish)

      Composer: Mauricio Kagel

      Performer: Lorna Windsor

    32. in angustiis… II (version for soprano solo)

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Performer: Lorna Windsor


Lorna Windsor’s selection of eight 20th and 21st-century composers highlights how the voice incarnates different expressive forms more than any instrument. Left naked in its primeval state, the voice leads each composer to rediscover his personal voice, unfettered by convention. Six of the eight composers represented here were born within the same five years, from 1926 (Kurtág and Feldman) to 1931 (Bussotti, Kagel), in 1929 Pousseur, in 1930 De Pablo. Andriessen was born slightly after in 1939 whilst only Macmillan (b.1959) belongs to the following generation. Bold simplicity is the keynote of Feldman’s brief setting of Rilke, Only: purely diatonic across its two minute span, whereas Henri Pousseur’s equally concise tribute to Baudelaire uses a 12-tone technique to create the illusion of diatonicism. In the hands of Luis de Pablo, Góngora’s evocation of a flight of storks creating patterns in the sky, is suggested by melismatic use of the voice, with arpeggios and filigree in quasi-instrumental notation, with arabesque-like writing which hints at distant Arabic hues of flamenco. In Einige Sätze aus den Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs, György Kurtág set the caustic aphorisms of a18th-century German physicist and writer with lightning flashes of insight and expression. By contrast, A Song of the Sea by Louis Andriessen requires the singer to sit (in performance) with a doll on her lap as she tells a sad little story with a simplicity redolent of folksong. Bussotti and Kagel both made far more thoroughgoing exploration of vocal technique in the Lettura di Braibanti and The Tower of Babel respectively. Lorna Windsor closes her recital with the most extended work on the album: in angustiis II, a lament by James Macmillan which presents a grief-stricken image of humanity crying out to God. She is a specialist in early and contemporary repertoire who can call upon several languages as mother tongues.