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從蒙台威爾第到怪奇比莉的死亡之歌
Hello Darkness: An Ode To Death in Songs From Claudio Monteverdi To Billie Eilish
這份特別的企劃收錄從蒙台威爾第到怪奇比莉的以死亡為主題的作品.由次女高音Olivia Vermeulen演唱.曲目橫跨將近500年的時間,收錄了這500年來關於死亡最經典的作品.非常特別與巧妙,一份精心策畫與選曲的專輯!
Darkness in the outside world and the inner self has always been – alongside Love – one of the chief themes of vocal music, and compositions and songs about death are legion during every period of musical history. The music on this recording is extremely diverse and we relished the idea of programming songs from different centuries in different styles and genres. We begin with a collection of songs about melancholia, inner abysses, longing for death and murderous lust. But the CD is also rich in songs about comfort and hope, light instead of despair – with lashings of black humour!
Composers down the ages have used innovative approaches to render the theme of death. Chromaticism is used tellingly by Monteverdi and Schubert. Duparc’s sensuous ‘Extase’ (1878), is nothing short of a miniature Liebestod. Korngold and Wolfgang Rihm play with translucent semitone sighs, Schumann’s ‘Nachtlied’ is characterized by hovering harmonies; Strauss and Korngold use late-romantic opulence; while tonality with Charles Ives and Alban Berg begins to lose its hold, while Berg, abandons tonality entirely. John Cage goes a step further and directs the pianist to drum the notes on the lid of a completely closed piano. Randy Newman’s ‘In Germany before the war’ is wreathed in mystery.
曲目:
Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna 'Lasciatemi morire', SV 107
Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell: Listen Before I Go
Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531
Nick Cave: The Curse Of Millhaven
Schubert: Der Jungling und der Tod, D545 (Spaun)
George Crumb: Dance Of The Moon in Santiago
Randy Newman: In Germany before the War
Bernhard Lang: The Crow
Danger Dan: Ode an den Mord
Charles Ives: Charlie Rutlage
Andrew Lippa: Death is Just Around the Corner
John Cage: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Schumann: Nachtlied, Op. 96 No. 1
Wolfgang Rihm: Zwei Gedichte von Marina Zwetajewa
Wolfgang Rihm: Zwei Gedichte von Marina Zwetajewa II
Mahler: Urlicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Richard Strauss: Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4
Henri Duparc: Extase
Berg: Vier Lieder, Op. 2
Jan Vermeulen: Als ik dood ben lig ik onder gras
Korngold: Abschiedslieder (Songs of Farewell), Op. 14
Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo)
Jan Philip Schulze (piano)
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