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Helena Tulve: Lijnen

AAJ Italy Staff By AAJ Italy Staff

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Prima registrazione per la ECM New Series dell’estone Helena Tulve, Lijnen riunisce sei pezzi di musica da camera per ensemble o quartetto scritti tra il 1997 e il 2003 che, per forma, suono e sonorità, si inscrivono con maestria nel solco tracciato da altri due grandi compositori estoni, Arvo Pärt e Erkki-Sven Tüür.

I primi due brani dell’album, “à travers” per ensemble e il più recente “Lijnen” per voci e ensemble, rappresentano rispettivamente la fase di debutto e apice della carriera della compositrice in cui è, sicuramente, possibile rintracciare continuità tanto con la scuola estone, quanto anche con un certo "mood" della musica spettrale francese.

Stranamente calda la voce di Arianna Savall in “Lijnen”, metallico e lucente lo Stockholm Saxophone Quartet in “?-ö”, più cupo il Silesian String Quartet in “nec ros, nec pluvia”, il NYYD Ensemble diretto da Olari Elts, in “abysses” e “cendres”, sembra essere il migliore interprete di una Tulve devota all’espressione musicale più inquieta e destabilizzante. Il flauto di "abysses", suono dell’anima persa negli abissi, si insinua infingardo nelle maglie ossessive della tela tessuta dalla Tulve.

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Track Listing

01. à travers; 02. Lijnen; 03. ?-ö; 04. abysses; 05. cendres; 06. nec ros, nec pluvia...

Personnel

à travers: NYYD Ensemble diretto da Olari Elts. Lijnen: Arianna Savall (voce); Stockholm Saxophone Quartet con Sven Westerberg (sax soprano), Jörgen Pettersson (alto sax), Leif Karlborg (sax tenore), Per Hedlund (sax baritono). Oo: Stockholm Saxophone Quartet. abysses: Emmanuelle Ophèle-Gaubert (flauto); Mihkel Peäske (flauto); NYYD ensemble diretto da Olari Elts. nec ros, nec pluvia...: Silesian String Quartet con Szymon Krzeszowiec (violino), Arkadiusz Kubica (violino), Lukasz Syrnicki (viola), Piotr Janosik (violoncello).

Album information

Title: Lijnen | Year Released: 2009 | Record Label: ECM Records


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