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La Passione

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Catalogue numberALPHA586
Release date2020-03-20
Discs1

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.
 
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01 Djamila Boupacha for Soprano Solo 05:00 $ 1.35 USD
  Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 'La Passione' 24:27
02 I. Adagio 14:17 $ 3.86 USD
03 II. Allegro di molto 06:10 $ 1.67 USD
04 III. Minuet - Trio 04:00 $ 1.08 USD
 
  Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I
05 IV. Finale. Presto 02:58 $ 0.80 USD
 
  Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil for Soprano & Ensemble 40:11
06 Prélude - I. La mort de l'ange 12:26 $ 3.36 USD
07 Interlude - II. La mort de la civilisation 07:04 $ 1.91 USD
08 Interlude - III. La mort de la voix 04:12 $ 1.13 USD
09 Faux interlude - IV. La mort de l'humanité 11:32 $ 3.11 USD
10 Berceuse 04:57 $ 1.34 USD
 
  Album total 72:36
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