Riccardo Frizza - Maria Stuarda - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On this one-of-a-kind album, the outstanding Danish ensemble Mathias Reumert Group presents three of Cuban composer Louis Franz Aguirre's strongest pieces, including the large-scale composition for percussion ensemble and flute soloist, Orula (Liturgia de la Adivinación), a journey in extreme sonorities, complex polyrhythms and searing microtonal melodies. InchI come from a culture where rhythm is the rationale for life and death. Where the drums are a means to worship, to communicate, and to call the Orishas to come down to EarthInch, says the composer. According to percussionist/conductor Mathias Reumert, Inchlearning these works took years and left us forever changed. Listeners will understand.Inch A quote from musicologist Dr. Iván César Morales best sums up the experience InchAguirres music has the power of an exorcism!Inch Louis Aguirre (1968) is a Cuban composer resident in Denmark. Aguirre was educated as a composer, violinist and conductor at the University of Arts in Havana, Cuba, under the guidance of Harold Gramatges and Roberto Valera. When he was 27 years old, he became the artistic director and chief conductor of the Symphony Orchestra in his birth town, Camagüey, as well as guest conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra and the Santiago de Cuba Symphony Orchestra. He also was a professor at the Camagüey's Music Conservatory and artistic director and chairman of the International Festival of Contemporary Music (1996-2002) in Camagüey. Louis Aguirre is an award winning composer whose music has been labelled as InchMusic from hellInch and InchNot for the faint of heartInch. He one of the foremost Latin American composers of his generation, yet only a handful of recordings exists

Exuding mystical sensuality, Scout Pare-Phillips uses her experiences of love and loss to create heavenly songs. Ultimately, she has narrated a tumultuous love story over two 7Inchs and two albums, including her latest Door Left Open.After enduring heartbreak while on tour for her previous album Heed the Call, Scout took to pen and paper, composing a song cycle that beautifully and painstakingly reflects her despair. The album explores intimate themes that give infinite weight to her songs - anchoring them here on earth while the subject of love lost and found reverberates like soundwaves floating up and out in the atmosphere. Scout seems to reopen her wounds then stitch herself back up again, using the only tools she has - powerful operatic vocals underscored by walls of haunting, ambient tones.Scout's style stems from professional training combined with a natural ear and affinity for unique and alternative instrumentation. Using autoharp and baritone guitar, Scout's songs harken a modern, dark yet feminine version of some of history' s most revered acoustic legends, such as Leonard Cohen and Sibylle Baier, as well as prolific and poetic lyricists like Rowland S. Howard and Diamanda Galas.

Riccardo Cirri - Il Conte Policronio Farsa in Prosa Con Musica [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/29/2008