Isabel Villanueva - Ritual (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Silence is an indispensable condition for the appearance of sound, to make the verb habitable. When language could not express the deepest human abysses, music emerged as a privileged way to put us in contact with the mystical, with the transcendent element of reality. The musical rite then emerged, where word and melody go hand in hand to access a space where spirits and gods are honoured, where the unknown and even the forbidden are invoked. The rite is a sacred and protected ceremonial, a symbolic place where human beings congregate to access the unmanifest, that which likes to hide. Music is the heart of the rite, the beat that gives life and illuminates the rhythms of the ceremony. But if the rite is the map, it is so because it also indicates the limits, everything that is beyond our understanding. The rite is the entrance to the mysterious, and music, the vehicle that leads us to this terra incognita. For this reason, music eventually passes into the empire of silence, and in it its journey culminates. Music is a rite because it is the only language that brings us back to the condition of all that is possible. Music is rite because it is the only language that speaks to us of the impossible.

Tracklist:
01. Hildegard von Binge: O Virtus Sapientiae
02. György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: To Imre Foldes at 60
03. György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Perpetuum mobile
04. György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: In Nomine-all´ongharese
05. Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita nº 2, BWV 1004: Allemanda
06. Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita nº 2, BWV 1004: Corrente
07. Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita nº 2, BWV 1004: Sarabanda
08. Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita nº 2, BWV 1004: Giga
09. Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita nº 2, BWV 1004: Ciaconna
10. György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: In memoriam Blum Tamàs
11. Heinrich Ignaz Biber: Passacaglia


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