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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Exaudi, James Weeks & Ensemble Recherche - Ferneyhough La terre est un homme (2018) [Hi-Res]

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Exaudi, James Weeks & Ensemble Recherche - Ferneyhough La terre est un homme (2018) [Hi-Res]
  • Title: Ferneyhough La terre est un homme
  • Year Of Release: 2018
  • Label: NMC Recordings
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac 24bits - 88.2kHz +booklet
  • Total Time: 01:07:56
  • Total Size: 1.2 gb
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Tracklist
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01. Liber Scintillarum
02. Plötzlichkeit
03. Missa brevis: I. Kyrie
04. Missa brevis: II. Gloria
05. Missa brevis: III. Sanctus
06. Missa brevis: IV. Benedictus
07. Missa brevis: V. Agnus Dei
08. La terre est un homme

Brian Ferneyhough is widely recognized as one of today’s foremost living composers. Since the mid-1970s, when he first gained widespread international recognition, his music has earned him a reputation as one of the most influential creative personalities and significant musical thinkers on the contemporary scene.

The monolithic La Terre est un Homme, with its 4-foot-tall score and written for an orchestra of eighty-eight, each of whom at times becomes a soloist with their own individual stave, caused a scandal at its 1979 premiere and has scarcely been heard since. The title comes from a painting from 1942 by Roberto Matta, which reminded Ferneyhough of a dream he had experienced: ‘I dreamt of a strange and alien planet traversed by a pitilessly hot sun. It was basically a desert landscape. The remarkable thing was, I seemed to be seeing every single grain of sand separately, not only in its spatial dimensions but also – somehow – in its individual weight. All was in slow, ineluctable motion. Between sharply contoured rocks scuttled tiny, scorpion-like creatures. One senses the extreme complexity but inevitability of this strange combination of leaden, slowly-moving sand and sudden flashes of intensely coloured movement.’ The second giant orchestral work on this album is Plötzlichkeit which includes three female singers, whose vocalise blends with the orchestra like a modern-day Debussy’s Sirènes. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Martyn Brabbin's direction throw themselves fearlessly into this demanding and densely notated music.

Brian Ferneyhough was just 26 when he composed Missa Brevis. Written for 12 voices and divided into three four-part choirs, it is superbly performed on this album by EXAUDI. The most recent work is Liber Scintillarum, commissioned by ensemble recherche and premiered at Darmstadt in 2012.



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  • gibheid
  •  wrote in 07:19
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Thanks fantastik.