Scarlatti: La Gloria Di Primavera - BLU-RAY AUDIO

Scarlatti / Ograjensek,Suzana / Phan,Nicholas - Scarlatti La Gloria di Primavera [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/08/2016

Laura Veirs' songs are steeped in natural imagery, blending influences ranging from folk to blues to punk. A Seattle resident by way of Colorado, Veirs' background in geology and kinship with the rugged landscape she grew up in meld together with her punk performing roots to form an unusual musical outlook. Her collaborators on 2004's Carbon Glacier, The Tortured Souls, reflect this vision of a style that spans rock, jazz, and avant-garde producer/drummer Tucker Martine has collaborated with Bill Frisell, Jim White, and Modest Mouse; viola player Eyvind Kang performs with Beck and Frisell while leading his own ensemble; Lori Goldston, who toured with Nirvana, plays cello; Steve Moore adds trombone and keyboards; and Karl Blau contributes bass, guitar, and vocals (both Moore and Blau are veterans of the Northwest underground folk and rock community).

Trachea, the windpipe. A source of transformation where the breath of a human being can be refined into the most beautiful, powerful, tender art. The voice is humankind's primeval instrument, plumbing the greatest depths of our emotional register. Schola Cantorum takes us through six unique musical landscapes that share something fundamental This is music that celebrates the physical and spiritual, thinking and feeling human being - and at the same time poses a challenge. InchI love the choir - this instrument which is so unpredictable, so personal. Each member sings with his or her own voice, communicating their own personal story, and my objective is to collect it all, unify and purify it, and hopefully make the Eros, the profound and inherent love, shine brightly by way of the instrument. Whether the music is complex or simple, the objective remains equal to cultivate an energy and a timbre which merge with the composition, elevating it to something larger than the sum of all it's individual elements. It is during this encounter, where each individual forms part of something larger than themselves, that musical magic arises. This is what I seek. Those moments when the eyes of both the performers and our audience glow. This is the moment I know that we have succeeded.Inch (Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl, conductor) Ever since Schola Cantorum was founded by composer Knut Nystedt in 1964, the chamber choir of the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo has had as it's prime goal to present contemporary choral works with a particular emphasis on Norwegian and Nordic composers.