Klaus Mertens - Six Cantatas 1731 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

It's Christmas Eve and everyone is busy with the preparations. But, preferring solitude to these happy holidays, Ebenezer Scrooge refuses the invitations. For this grumpy old man who everyone is careful to avoid, Christmas comes down to one simple word InchFoolishness!Inch But that night, Christmas spirits decide otherwise. Plunged in spite of himself between past, present and future, the old scrambler receives a lesson in life. This mythical, wonderfully sensitive tale gives Christmas all it's magic. InchBy a just, noble and legitimate distribution of the things of this world, if sickness and sadness are contagious, there is nothing that is communicated so irresistibly as laughter and good humor.Inch Christmas Tales - Charles DICKENS

Among the more than 1,400 preserved church cantatas from the pen of Georg Philipp Telemann's are a remarkable number of works for solo bass. A Erklärun this is found quickly Telemann himself was an accomplished baritone, the absence of adequate singers often also himself Inchsang to the point of fatiguingInch if he had to. The four cantatas of this CD come from the so-called InchBrussels YearInch. In Klaus Mertens they find an excellent singer, the Telemann would certainly like to let go first.

Groundbreaking new-music sextet Eighth Blackbird, winners of four Grammy Awards for their previous Cedille Records albums, are heard in the world-premiere recording of a collaborative, all-instrumental program of intensely rhythmic works written expressly for the Chicago-based ensemble by the founders of the celebrated Bang on a Can composers collective. Each piece on Singing in the Dead of Night takes it's name from Paul McCartney's lyrics to The Beatles song InchBlackbirdInch - but this music exists in another realm altogether. Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe's title track conjures a dark, silent solitude from which creative inspiration emerges. Michael Gordon's music melds Inchthe nervous brilliance of free jazz and the intransigence of classical modernismInch (The New Yorker). In Inchthe light of the dark,Inch he evokes the wild spontaneity of an uninhibited, late-night jam session. Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang's three-movement Inchthese broken wings,Inch a Inchglamorously beautiful suiteInch (The Guardian), takes flight via Eighth Blackbird's boundless stamina and high-voltage virtuosity. Eighth Blackbird sequences the component pieces in the unconventional, composer-approved concert order they've employed since the collaborative work's 2008 premiere They play the Gordon and Wolfe works in between movements of the Lang, whose piece thus frames the program.