Sarah Aristidou, Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg & Jörg Widmann - Enigma (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

‘Enigma’ is the Greek word for ‘riddle’, ‘mystery’, ‘secret’. At the moment of entering or leaving life, there is always a sound: the cry of a newborn baby or the last sigh of a dying person giving up the ghost. Soprano Sarah Aristidou sets out in search of the original sound in this programme, which opens with Andreas Tsiartas’s Lamento Turco . The voice emerges from silence in a wordless lament on the vowel ‘A’. The piece ends with a heart-rending, ‘archaic’ scream… Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise also uses the vowel ‘A’ … In Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen , a shepherd sings across the valley: ‘The farther my voice carries, the clearer it comes back to me.’ In Messiaen’s Répétition planétaire , the singer’s call ‘Ahi’ is accompanied by the music of the planets and stars… After visiting music by Wolf and Ravel, the odyssey ends with a work by Jörg Widmann for clarinet, soprano and piano founded on the vowels ‘A’ and ‘O’. Naturally, it is Widmann himself who plays the clarinet part, as he does in Schubert’s Hirt auf dem Felsen , with Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg at the piano.

Tracklist:
01. Tsiartas: Lamento Turco
02. Rachmaninoff: 14 Romances, Op. 34: No. 14, Vocalise
03. Rachmaninoff: 6 Romances Op. 38: No. 6, A-OO!
04. Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965
05. Messiaen: Harawi: No. 6; Répétition Planétaire
06. Improvisation: Enigma
07. Wolf: Mörike Lieder, Heft I: No. 11, An eine Äolsharfe
08. Ravel: 5 Mélodies populaires grecques: No. 4, Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques, M.A 5
09. Schubert: Nachtstück, D. 672
10. Messiaen: Harawi: No. 9, L'escalier redit, gestes du soleil
11. Widmann: Sphinxensprüche und Rätselkanons


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