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Gareth Davis, Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, Fumio Yasuda – Yasuda, Davis: Ekecheiria for Voices and Bass Clarinet (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 43:05 minutes | 726 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Winter & Winter
For the opening of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, Krzysztof Penderecki set to music the text of the Ekecheiria (Truce) Agreement, agreed in 884 BC to ensure the peaceful running of the Games. In 2022, Munich celebrated and commemorated the 50th anniversary of the “”cheerful”” Games, which unfortunately ended in tragedy. In this context, Fumio Yasuda was commissioned to once again set Ekecheiria to music as a mirror of those events. The result is seven compositions for voices and bass clarinet based on IOC President Avery Brundage’s controversial demand “”The Games Must Go On””, interspersed with sound bridges entitled “”Ekecheiria”” by Gareth Davis. Gareth Davis, one of the most outstanding soloists in New Music, meets EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles of today. EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, based in London, is directed by James Weeks and draws its voices from the best vocal talent in the UK. Winter & Winter’s recorded works with EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble range from Carlo Gesualdo to Michael Finnissy. Gareth Davis is featured on “”The Ninth Wave – Ode to Nature,”” a composition by Fumio Yasuda based on Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Exaudi Vocal Ensemble & James Weeks – Book of Flames and Shadows (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:05 minutes | 929 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Winter & Winter
Book of Flames and Shadows is a continuous sequence of music lasting about an hour, incorporating two pieces by James Weeks (b. 1978) and madrigals by Jacques Arcadelt (1507-1568). Its theme is the awakening, of the sensual and erotic power of the spoken word, and its transformation into song, through the love poetry of Petrarch (1304-1374) and his later imitators, including Pietro Bembo (1470-1547). A music of beginnings, of brief glances and tentative flowerings, planted in Italian Renaissance soil: looking back to the reticent, emerging expressivity of the earliest madrigals; to the attuning of lyric poetry to vocal sound in Petrarch; and to the way these new-old powers enable the artist to trace with more electric precision the contours of desire.
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