Fauns - Lights - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Migration of peoples across borders has shaped the human experience for millennia. While securing permanent shelter-a home-has become a goal for the majority of individuals in our world, migration remains one of our main strategies for survival. Today, tens of millions of individuals live a nomadic lifestyle as hunter gatherers or pastoralists. Pilgrims seek moral or spiritual significance through extended physical journeys. Immigrants and refugees seek freedom, stability, and safety in a new community or country. Whether physical or metaphysical, humanity survives by way of continuous movement-our culture, beliefs, and histories are marked by impermanence. Music functions as a container of meaning, a vehicle we have used for centuries to express and grapple with the ineffable. We want to capture music-to write it down with a notation that clearly defines and preserves our musical ideas for generations to come. Yet, we have struggled to create a collection of symbols that can fully express our intentions-intentions that go far beyond pitch and rhythm. With this evolution came an ever-expanding musical vocabulary, new levels of complexity, and an increased desire to prescribe performance practices with the pen. But music resists this containment-the possibilities precede and outlast the technology that seeks to write them down. The repertoire on this album is rife with symbolism and metaphor that further teases out concepts of impermanence, migration, and the transient nature of musical language. From the wordless vocalises of Takemitsu's Windhorse depicting Tibetan nomads, to the 12th century polyphony of the Codex Calixtinus sung by pilgrims traveling along the Camino de Santiago, to the dramatic shifts of polyphonic style seen in the 15th century motets of Du Fay and the Turin Manuscript, to Peter Gilbert's contemporary meditation on the phases of the moon-temporali

Fauns - Fauns [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 07/28/2014

Ferenc Farkas and the French StyleWhile the first volume devoted to the piano works of Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000), released by Stradivarius in 2023, contained pieces inspired by Italian culture, the second partof the complete work presented here aims to investigate Farkas' relationship with France. At the time,Paris was the centre of reference for all artists who wished to distance themselves from the predominantGerman culture, although this trend had much more arcane roots.For Farkas, the French language and culture were of extreme importance and it is therefore no coincidencethat, more than sixty years after the aforementioned trip, he wrote two series of piano worksfrom his musical diary notes, entitled Journal 1986 and Journal 1987 in French.This is neither programme music nor illustrative compositions. Farkas' works are essentially conceptual,everything else is just the creative play of the creator.