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Marsh - Pierrot Lunaire              | NMC Recordings NMCD127

Marsh - Pierrot Lunaire

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Label: NMC Recordings

Cat No: NMCD127

Barcode: 5023363012720

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 9th April 2007

Contents

Artists

Redbyrd
Juice Trio
Ebor Singers
Linda Hirst
Hilliard Ensemble

Artists

Redbyrd
Juice Trio
Ebor Singers
Linda Hirst
Hilliard Ensemble

About

Composer Roger Marsh, long fascinated by the poems which Arnold Schoenberg set for his Pierrot Lunaire, has completed a setting of Albert Giraud’s brilliant and allusive original texts — ignored by Schoenberg commentators over the years. Marsh’s settings use both the original French and a new English translation specially commissioned from Kay Bourlier—sometimes simultaneously—and feature solo voice, choirs, a human beatbox and a narrator in the role of the poet himself.
 
This recording, supervised by the composer, features early music stars The Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd, together with the exciting new vocal trio Juice and the Ebor Singers; also on this disc is the vocalist Linda Hirst, whose work has ranged from early music with John Eliot Gardiner to contemporary performance with Electric Phoenix.
 
The music contrasts the calm of minimalists such as Arvo Pärt with dramatic narration and moments of unearthly beauty; its compelling combination of styles, together with the wide-ranging artistic and literary references, will be of interest not just to followers of new music, but to the many fans of the Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd as well as to those with an interest in nineteenth- and twentieth century art.
 
The recording is presented with a comprehensive booklet including full texts in English and French, and is illustrated with a range of paintings linked to the poems and to the myth of Pierrot.
 
This is Roger Marsh’s first recording for NMC.
 
Roger Marsh has succeeded in (re)making Pierrot as a living resource with a tremendous staged production of Giraud’s complete and enigmatic torrent of fantasy.” (Tempo)

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