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This project inaugurates a new series by Deutsche Grammophon entitled Return to Language that apparently will focus not only on art song but on recordings that include spoken-word elements. The label could hardly have chosen a better composer for the debut release than Mohammed Fairouz, Arab American in background and ecumenical and pacifist in intent: he has set material of Israeli origin as well as that from the Arab world. Here the Arab experience is one component: Sadat (2013) is a gripping programmatic depiction of the terrible day in 1981 when Egyptian president and peacemaker Anwar Sadat was assassinated by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. That work serves as the linchpin between the albums' two themes, art and memory, and joins them together elegantly. The album opens with remarks by John F. Kennedy about poetry at Amherst College in October 1963, shortly before he, too, was killed, and there are further parts of that speech plus a reading by Paul Muldoon of W.H. Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," a poem also set in Fairouz's song cycle Audenesque (2012). Fairouz's style is serious but successful, somewhere between those of his teachers, Gunther Schuller and György Ligeti, and the likes of Kurt Weill. In Audenesque he works with mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, for whom he has written much of his vocal music. This entire project comes together quite powerfully and will give rise to many reflections on the role of art in the current violent world.
© TiVo
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Audenesque (Mohammed Fairouz)
Mohammed Fairouz, Musical Director, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Frost, Producer - Kate Lindsey, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Evan Rogister, Conductor, MainArtist - Ensemble LPR, Ensemble, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
Mohammed Fairouz, Musical Director, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Frost, Producer - Kate Lindsey, Vocals, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Evan Rogister, Conductor, MainArtist - Ensemble LPR, Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
Mohammed Fairouz, Musical Director, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Frost, Producer - Kate Lindsey, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Evan Rogister, Conductor, MainArtist - Ensemble LPR, Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
Mohammed Fairouz, Musical Director, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Frost, Producer - Kate Lindsey, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Evan Rogister, Conductor, MainArtist - Ensemble LPR, Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
Seamus Heaney, ComposerLyricist - Paul Muldoon, MainArtist - David Frost, Producer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
Sadat (Mohammed Fairouz)
Mohammed Fairouz, Musical Director, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Frost, Producer - Evan Rogister, Conductor, MainArtist - Ensemble LPR, Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
Mohammed Fairouz, Musical Director, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Frost, Producer - Evan Rogister, Conductor, MainArtist - Ensemble LPR, Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
Mohammed Fairouz, Musical Director, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Frost, Producer - Evan Rogister, Conductor, MainArtist - Ensemble LPR, Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
Mohammed Fairouz, Musical Director, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Frost, Producer - Evan Rogister, Conductor, MainArtist - Ensemble LPR, Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
Mohammed Fairouz, Musical Director, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Frost, Producer - Evan Rogister, Conductor, MainArtist - Ensemble LPR, Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
W.H. Auden, ComposerLyricist - Paul Muldoon, Speaker, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Frost, Producer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
W.H. Auden, ComposerLyricist - Paul Muldoon, Speaker, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Frost, Producer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
W.H. Auden, ComposerLyricist - Paul Muldoon, Speaker, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Frost, Producer
℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics
Albumbeschreibung
This project inaugurates a new series by Deutsche Grammophon entitled Return to Language that apparently will focus not only on art song but on recordings that include spoken-word elements. The label could hardly have chosen a better composer for the debut release than Mohammed Fairouz, Arab American in background and ecumenical and pacifist in intent: he has set material of Israeli origin as well as that from the Arab world. Here the Arab experience is one component: Sadat (2013) is a gripping programmatic depiction of the terrible day in 1981 when Egyptian president and peacemaker Anwar Sadat was assassinated by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. That work serves as the linchpin between the albums' two themes, art and memory, and joins them together elegantly. The album opens with remarks by John F. Kennedy about poetry at Amherst College in October 1963, shortly before he, too, was killed, and there are further parts of that speech plus a reading by Paul Muldoon of W.H. Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," a poem also set in Fairouz's song cycle Audenesque (2012). Fairouz's style is serious but successful, somewhere between those of his teachers, Gunther Schuller and György Ligeti, and the likes of Kurt Weill. In Audenesque he works with mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, for whom he has written much of his vocal music. This entire project comes together quite powerfully and will give rise to many reflections on the role of art in the current violent world.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:51:20
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Mohammed Fairouz Evan Rogister Ensemble LPR Kate Lindsey Paul Muldoon
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Crossover
- Genre: Klassiek
© 2014 Universal Music Classics, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2014 Universal Music Classics, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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