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Vox Sola: Music for Solo Voice / Windsor
Brilliant Classics

Vox Sola: Music for Solo Voice / Windsor

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Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Lorna Windsor
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Nov 09, 2018
Catalog #
BRI95791
UPC
5028421957913

About

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.

Tracklist 32 tracks

  1. 1 Only 01:37
    Track
    1
    Title
    Only
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Morton Feldman
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  2. 2 Pour Baudelaire 01:40
    Track
    2
    Title
    Pour Baudelaire
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    Henri Pousseur
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  3. 3 Tarde Poetas: Surcar vemos 05:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    Tarde Poetas: Surcar vemos
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Luis de Pablo
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  4. 4 Touropa 01:08
    Track
    4
    Title
    Touropa
    Duration
    01:08
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  5. 5 … an die aufgehende Sonne 00:28
    Track
    5
    Title
    … an die aufgehende Sonne
    Duration
    00:28
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  6. 6 Ein gourmand 00:58
    Track
    6
    Title
    Ein gourmand
    Duration
    00:58
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  7. 7 Koan 00:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    Koan
    Duration
    00:27
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  8. 8 Ein merkwürdingen Gedanke 00:47
    Track
    8
    Title
    Ein merkwürdingen Gedanke
    Duration
    00:47
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  9. 9 Dank 00:28
    Track
    9
    Title
    Dank
    Duration
    00:28
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  10. 10 Geständnis 00:34
    Track
    10
    Title
    Geständnis
    Duration
    00:34
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  11. 11 Eine wichtige Bemerkung 00:37
    Track
    11
    Title
    Eine wichtige Bemerkung
    Duration
    00:37
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  12. 12 Franklin, der Erfinder 00:45
    Track
    12
    Title
    Franklin, der Erfinder
    Duration
    00:45
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  13. 13 Gebet 00:26
    Track
    13
    Title
    Gebet
    Duration
    00:26
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  14. 14 Alpenspitzen näher der Sonne, aber kalt und unfruchtbar 00:25
    Track
    14
    Title
    Alpenspitzen näher der Sonne, aber kalt und unfruchtbar
    Duration
    00:25
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  15. 15 Im Dunkel rot werden 00:27
    Track
    15
    Title
    Im Dunkel rot werden
    Duration
    00:27
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  16. 16 Der gute Ton liegt dort um eine Oktave niedriger 00:32
    Track
    16
    Title
    Der gute Ton liegt dort um eine Oktave niedriger
    Duration
    00:32
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  17. 17 Das Mädchen hatte ein Paar sündlich schöne Hände 00:18
    Track
    17
    Title
    Das Mädchen hatte ein Paar sündlich schöne Hände
    Duration
    00:18
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  18. 18 Kirchtürme, umgekehrte Trichter, das Gebet in den Himmel zu leiten 00:46
    Track
    18
    Title
    Kirchtürme, umgekehrte Trichter, das Gebet in den Himmel zu leiten
    Duration
    00:46
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  19. 19 Als unsere selige Kuh noch lebte, sagte einmal eine Frau in Göttingen 00:24
    Track
    19
    Title
    Als unsere selige Kuh noch lebte, sagte einmal eine Frau in Göttingen
    Duration
    00:24
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  20. 20 Ein einschläfriger Kirchstuhl 00:35
    Track
    20
    Title
    Ein einschläfriger Kirchstuhl
    Duration
    00:35
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  21. 21 Ein Mädchen kaum zwölf Moden alt. 00:26
    Track
    21
    Title
    Ein Mädchen kaum zwölf Moden alt.
    Duration
    00:26
    Composer
    György Kurtág
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  22. 22 7 Fogli: Lettura di Braibanti 04:28
    Track
    22
    Title
    7 Fogli: Lettura di Braibanti
    Duration
    04:28
    Composer
    Sylvano Bussotti
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  23. 23 A Song of the Sea 03:35
    Track
    23
    Title
    A Song of the Sea
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Louis Andriessen
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  24. 24 No. 4. Esperanto 03:36
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 4. Esperanto
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Mauricio Kagel
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  25. 25 No. 13. Portugiesisch (Portuguese) 03:12
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 13. Portugiesisch (Portuguese)
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Mauricio Kagel
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  26. 26 No. 5. Franzosisch (French) 02:13
    Track
    26
    Title
    No. 5. Franzosisch (French)
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Mauricio Kagel
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  27. 27 No. 6. Griechisch (Greek) 03:04
    Track
    27
    Title
    No. 6. Griechisch (Greek)
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Mauricio Kagel
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  28. 28 No. 15. Spanisch (Spanish) 01:54
    Track
    28
    Title
    No. 15. Spanisch (Spanish)
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Mauricio Kagel
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  29. 29 No. 3. Englisch (English) 02:13
    Track
    29
    Title
    No. 3. Englisch (English)
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Mauricio Kagel
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  30. 30 No. 2. Deutsch (German) 02:22
    Track
    30
    Title
    No. 2. Deutsch (German)
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Mauricio Kagel
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  31. 31 No. 17. Turkisch (Turkish) 02:42
    Track
    31
    Title
    No. 17. Turkisch (Turkish)
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Mauricio Kagel
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor
  32. 32 in angustiis… II (version for soprano solo) 10:36
    Track
    32
    Title
    in angustiis… II (version for soprano solo)
    Duration
    10:36
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    Lorna Windsor