The Lorelei Ensemble, an all-professional vocal ensemble, chose to perform this repertoire with women's voices, despite the original intent for male voices, to offer a 'rebirth' to the music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Tōru Takemitsu's 'Wind Horse' is inspired by a divination practice of Tibetan nomads, where the direction of blown cloths indicates where they should live.
Composition History
The Codex Calixtinus, compiled around 1160-1175, was created for pilgrims traveling the 'Camino de Compostela' in Northern Spain and contains some of the earliest known polyphonic notation.
Recording & Production
The recording process for this album embraced spontaneity and re-imagination, resisting the typical goal of absolute consistency across takes.
Album & Artwork
This album explores the concept of impermanence, traveling between early and contemporary repertoires that defy easy categorization.
Compositional Technique
Peter Gilbert's 'Tsukimi' sets eight Japanese waka poems, which are concise, five-line poems with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable structure, often meditating on the moon.
Composition History
The Turin Codex (J.II.9), an early 15th-century manuscript, preserves and displays repertoire of the ars subtilior, a style of extreme rhythmic and notational complexity.
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