La Passione
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LUIGI NONO / FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN / GERARD GRISEY
La Passione
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor), Ludwig Orchestra
[ Alpha Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 27 March 2020
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The starting point for Barbara Hannigan's third recording for Alpha is a work by Gérard Grisey (1946-98) that is particularly close to her heart. Grisey wrote: 'I conceived the Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil [Four songs for crossing the threshold] as a musical meditation on death in four parts: the death of the angel, the death of civilisation, the death of the voice and the death of humanity... The texts chosen belong to four civilisations (Christian, Egyptian, Greek, Mesopotamian) and have in common a fragmentary discourse on the inevitability of death.' Luigi Nono (1924-90) was a politically engaged composer. His stunning monody Djamila Boupacha, a heart-rending cry for solo soprano, pays tribute to a freedom fighter tortured by French paratroopers during the Algerian war; Picasso also portrayed her in charcoal. Once again Barbara Hannigan both sings and directs this pair of twentieth-century works with her friends of the Ludwig Orchestra. She has chosen to couple them with a Classical symphony by the master of the genre, Joseph Haydn, which also deals with the theme of the Passion. Her interpretation is extremely intense and highly personal.
"The knowledge that Grisey himself died unexpectedly himself at only 52 shortly before the work's premiere only heightens the impact of this mesmeric recording." BBC Music
"it is hard not to be intrigued by Hannigan's precise and committed singing as she weaves through Grisey's microtonal maze with typical confidence. The title track of the album sees her conducting, leading Haydn's gorgeous Symphony No 49 with great style, the four movements elegantly contrasted in their moods, the strong lines particularly gracious, the little Trio in the fourth movement lurching disquietingly from the prevalent F minor into F major." - Opera Now 4/5
Tracks:
Djamila Boupacha for soprano solo - Luigi Nono
Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 'La Passione': I. Adagio - Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 'La Passione': II. Allegro di molto - Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 'La Passione': III. Minuet - Trio - Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 'La Passione': IV. Finale. Presto - Franz Joseph Haydn
Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil for soprano & ensemble: Prélude - I. La mort de l'ange - Gérard Grisey
Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil for soprano & ensemble: Interlude - II. La mort de la civilisation - Gérard Grisey
Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil for soprano & ensemble: Interlude - III. La mort de la voix - Gérard Grisey
Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil for soprano & ensemble: Faux Interlude - IV. La mort de l'humanité - Gérard Grisey
Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil for soprano & ensemble: Berceuse - Gérard Grisey
