BART VISMAN (b.1962): Septet for String Quartet, Piano, Piccolo and Bass Clarinet (Schoenberg Quartet, Het Trio), New Heaven! for Male Chorus (The Gents; Peter Dijkstra), Sables, Oxygène for Soprano and Orchestra (Barbara Hannigan [soprano], Limburg Symphony Orchestra; Ed Spanjaard).

Catalogue Number: 02L122

Label: Etcetera

Reference: KTC 1378

Format: CD

Price: $17.98

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Description: The orchestral song-cycle Sables, Oxygène is the principal work here, a product of the composer's recent output, in which he unabashedly celebrates a return to tonality, by contrast with the Septet (1999), which is in an altogether thornier (though still not inaccessible) style which the composer feels he has outgrown (something of this transition can actually be felt as the Septet progresses, in fact). By the time of Sables, Oxygène, as the composer puts it, 'the ear is in charge, and nothing else'; the piece is a study in glowing, Ravelian neo-impressionism, with shimmering textures, pervasive waltz-rhythms and a compelling lightness and lucidity of texture. The work sets five poems by Saskia Macris, of a somewhat Symbolist character in their layers of imagery and meaning; illustrated by an appropriately rich palette of orchestral color. The choral New Heaven! sets a text by the Renaissance poet Robert Southwell about the infant Jesus; the composer deliberately excised all darker references form the poem, allowing a work that radiates light both musically and textually. French-English texts.

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