Brian Ferneyhough: La Terre Est Un Homme: Bbc Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins - Cd 2018
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Brian Ferneyhough: La Terre Est Un Homme BBC Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins Released by NMC 2018 - CD 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 aEU" somehow aEU" 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 PlAPtzlichkeit which includes three female singers, whose vocalise blends with the orchestra like a modern-day Debussy's SirA"nes. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Martyn Brabbins' direction throw themselves fearlessly into this demanding and densely notated music, to dramatic effect. Brian Ferneyhough was just 26 when he composed Missa Brevis. Written for 12 voices 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. 1. Liber Scintillarum (Brian Ferneyhough) - Ensemble Recherche 2. Pl"tzlichkeit (Brian Ferneyhough) - Various Performers 3. Kyrie (Brian Ferneyhough) - Exaudi 4. Gloria (Brian Ferneyhough) - Exaudi 5. Sanctus (Brian Ferneyhough) - Exaudi 6. Benedictus (Brian Ferneyhough) - Exaudi 7. Agnus Dei (Brian Ferneyhough) - Exaudi 8. La Terre Est Un Homme (Brian Ferneyhough) - BBC Symphony Orchestra Total time 68'05
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