Aria - Nicholas Isherwood Performs John Cage

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Aria - Nicholas Isherwood performs John CageOpis:Product Description Nicholas Isherwood made his début as Lucifer in Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht at Covent Garden, at the age of 25, and has since collaborated closely with composers such as George Crumb, Hans Werner Henze, György Kurtág and Iannis Xenakis. His relationship with John Cage soon developed into what he in his liner notes to the disc calls 'a love affair'. The composer Sylvano Bussotti has remarked that 'since the passing of Cathy Berberian, Nicholas Isherwood is the singer who best understands the spirit of the music of John Cage'. On ARIA, Isherwood presents most of Cage's music for solo voice that is not included in the composer's Song Books, and most pieces are here recorded for the first time by a male singer. The programme covers 43 years, from A Chant with Claps from the early 1940s to Ryoanji and Sonnekus2 of the 1980s, and includes the celebrated Aria, here performed with a new multi-channel tape realization of Cage's Fontana Mix, by the Italian composer Gianluca Verlingieri. In three of the songs (A Flower, The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs and Nowth Upon Nacht) Isherwood accompanies himself on a closed piano, tapping on the lid in the first two, and slamming it down on the keys in the third. Ryoanji - named after the famous rock garden in Kyoto and described by Cage as 'a garden of sounds' - is a central work in Cage's production, and exists in several versions. Here it is heard for voice and percussion, performed by Isherwood with the use of a crystal wine glass. Review American bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood says it took him a long time to appreciate the music of John Cage, but you d never guess. Spanning 43 years of Cage vocal works not included in his Song Books, this collection is affectionate and forthright, meticulous when it matters and generally great fun. Isherwood's voice is rich, clear and lyrical; the same delivery would suit a disc of American folk ballads. Recorded up close to catch all its fragile edges, the set opens with the slip-sliding Aria, written for the fearless circus that was Cathy Berberian's voice and here accompanied by Gianluca Verlingieri's 2009 reconstruction of the bonkers tape-piece Fontana Mix, cow moos and all. The unpublished A Chant with Claps is daft, catchy and joyful. Isherwood accompanies himself on Joyce settings The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs and a violent, claustrophobic little work called Nowth Upon Nacht. Wordplay abounds in the spry Sonnekus and Eight Whiskus, but his treatment is amusingly dry. The longest work is Ryoanji (1985), named after a Zen garden. Isherwood's performance is intense and serene, potently atmospheric and never studious. **** --Guardian, 18/6/15 Isherwood's vocal acrobatics take us far deeper inside melodic nuance than any other performance; tiptoeing gradations of microtonal pitch, glissandos suspended mid free-fall, errant notes grabbed from nowhere made to find their context. --Gramophone, Aug'15Autor:Nicholas IsherwoodNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: German: Original LanguageData wydania: 2015-01-01Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.6 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmAria-Vokalmusik von John CageUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.