Cleopatra's Songs

Featuring

Agata Zubel
Johannes Kalitzke
Guillaume Bourgogne
Katarzyna Duda
Szymon Bywalec
Klangforum Wien

Ensemble Intercontemporain
OMNO-Ensemble
Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej

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Performer Biography

Klangforum Wien, an ensemble on this album, is a collective of 24 musicians from ten countries, known for exploring new horizons of artistic creativity with contemporary composers.

Compositional Technique

Agata Zubel integrates harmonic textures and sound qualities linked to the world of electronics into her orchestral language, as seen in her Violin Concerto.

Performer Biography

OMNO-Ensemble / Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej, featured on this album, is the oldest Polish ensemble specializing in contemporary music performance, founded in 1996.

Composer Biography

Agata Zubel, the composer, has a triple musical activity as a performer, improviser, and composer, which forms one organic whole.

Performer Biography

Katarzyna Duda, the violinist on this album, is a prizewinner of the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition and the Tadeusz Wronski International Violin Solo Competition.

Compositional Technique

Agata Zubel's music often incorporates microtonality, such as a harp tuned a quarter note lower than other instruments in Cleopatra's Songs, to create a flexible and expressive harmonic world.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Agata Zubel's pragmatism leads her to prefer intuition over systematic formalization, which she tests by ear, resulting in works with tension and dynamics that create solid, yet unfixed, forms.