This recording of Hermetika IX 'Vox Angeli II' was commissioned by Concertgebouw Brugge and Nadar Ensemble.
Compositional Technique
Bernhard Lang's musical style in Hermetika IX 'Vox Angeli II' incorporates elements from classical music, jazz, and rock, and uses electronic techniques like sampling, granular synthesis, and loops.
Performer Biography
The Nadar Ensemble, named after the 19th-century photographer and balloonist Gaspard-Félix 'Nadar' Tournachon, embraces adventure, interdisciplinarity, and critical engagement with the modern world.
Interpretation
The Nadar Ensemble aims to anchor new music more firmly in today's world by developing alternative concert formats, ranging from walks and living room concerts to compositions with construction cranes or hot air balloons.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bernhard Lang's Hermetika IX 'Vox Angeli II' places women at its heart, drawing text from the Nag Hammadi scriptures, which explore the duality between the divine and the earthly.
Composition History
Hermetika IX 'Vox Angeli II' is part of Bernhard Lang's 'Hermetika' series, which began with choral works and expanded to pieces for voice and instruments, all exploring the theme of duality.
Composer Biography
Bernhard Lang, born in 1957, studied jazz piano, arranging, classical piano, philosophy, and German philology, and worked with various jazz bands before studying composition.
