Pascal Dusapin / John Cage / Igor Stravinsky

Requiem Canticles / Seventy-Four for orchestra /La Melancholia

Archive 2011
Music

John Cage, Paris, 1970 © Horace ©

Igor Stravinsky
Requiem Canticles for contralto, bass, chorus and orchestra
John Cage
Seventy-Four for orchestra
Pascal Dusapin
La Melancholia, operatorio
Anu Komsi, soprano
Helena Rasker, contralto
Tim Mead, countertenor
Alexander Yudenkov, tenor
Rudolf Rosen, baritone
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Chorus Direction,   Nicholas Kok
Symphony Orchestra of SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg
Direction, Jonathan Stockhammer
Coproduction Cité de la musique ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
In collaboration with Südwestrundfunk
With the assistance of the Sacem
With the support of Bernard Monnier, Judith Pisar
France Musique records this concert

Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles, a late composition with striking sounds, is in marked contrast with John Cage’s final work, Seventy-Four, with fourteen sounds, leaving the performer free to decide, to choose duration and microtones. Melancholia by Pascal Dusapin is a return to Europe, with literary and philosophical allusions, embracing the audience in sound. Three approaches to time and three visions of eternity or vanity.