Composer: Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen, Sergey Rachmaninov, Maurice Ravel, Franz Peter Schubert, Andreas Tsiartas, Jörg Widmann, Hugo Wolf
Performer: Sarah Aristidou, Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg, Jörg Widmann
Orchestra:
Conductor:
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA740
Release: 2023
Size: 1.22 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Tsiartas: Lamento Turco
02. Rachmaninov: Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14
03. Rachmaninov: ‘A-oo’, Op.38, No. 6
04. Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (Von Chezy / Muller)
05. Messiaen: Harawi: No. 6; Répétition Planétaire
06. Sarah Aristidou, Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg: Enigma
07. Wolf: An eine Æolsharfe (No. 11 from Mörike-Lieder)
08. Ravel: Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
09. Schubert: Nachtstück, D672 (Mayrhofer)
10. Messiaen: Harawi: No. 9, L’escalier redit, gestes du soleil
11. Widmann: Sphinxensprüche und Rätselkanons
‘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 Repetition planetaire, 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 Jorg 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.