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Henze - El Cimarron | Wergo WER67102

Henze - El Cimarron

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Label: Wergo

Cat No: WER67102

Barcode: 4010228671025

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 7th January 2008

Contents

Artists

El Cimarron Ensemble

Works

Henze, Hans Werner

El Cimarron

Artists

El Cimarron Ensemble

About

El Cimarrón is one of Henze's major and most profound musical statements.

In his 'recital for four musicians', Henze tells the story of Esteban Montejo, an escaped Cuban slave who, at the age of 104, was interviewed extensively about his life by the Cuban ethnologist and writer Miguel Barnet. In Henze's composition, there is a narrative gesture that derives from Esteban Montejo's speaking style, which was captured on tape and there is the basso continuo, the musical foundation from which the whole thing grows and produces its new blossoms. It was derived from and developed on ancient African (Congolese-Cuban) percussion music.

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