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Alexander Knaifel – Chapter Eight: Make Me Drunk With Your Kisses (1995)
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Alexander Knaifel – Chapter Eight: Make Me Drunk With Your Kisses (1995)
Classical/Contemporary | FLAC lossless | cuesheets+log | covers+booklet | 59m52s | 216mb
Label: Teldec | cat. no. Teldec 0630-10160-2
Classical/Contemporary | FLAC lossless | cuesheets+log | covers+booklet | 59m52s | 216mb
Label: Teldec | cat. no. Teldec 0630-10160-2
| “ | Chapter Eight (1993) is a setting of part of the Canticum Canticorum, King Solomon’s Song of Songs, written with Knaifel’s cello teacher, Mstislav Rostropovich, in mind. The work is the antithesis of a concerto and Knaifel describes it in an unusual way, as being “for church, choirs and a cello” The choirs form a cross in the church, a children’s choir before the altar, a mixed choir at the back of the church, male and female choirs to the right and the left, the cellist at the centre. The hour-long piece moves with implacable, slow gentleness, the cello placed in the limelight for “an act of humility, a manifestation of sacrificial, self-crucifying love”. | ” |
An internet friend of mine once stated that composers from Russia and the Baltic states would create either orthodox music or avant-garde, no way in between. If this is true, then perhaps Knaifel’s interpretation of the biblical Song of Songs is an exception to the rule: this strange, slow moving choral work seems to have a bit of both worlds.
The booklet contains an interview with Knaifel and Rostropovich.
Tracks:
01. 'Who Is Coming Up From The Wilderness' -- Stanza I - Vi [0:11:37.12]
02. ' O That You Were Like A Brother To Me' - Stanza Vii -- Xi [0:11:21.63]
03. ' Make Haste, My Beloved ' -- Stanza Xii -- Xv [0:08:25.12]
04. ' You Who Dwell In The Gardens ' -- Stanza Xvi--Xxii [0:10:53.05]
05. 'Set Me As A Seal Upon Your Heart' Xxiii-Xxxii [0:10:52.45]
06. ' His Left Hand Is Under My Head ' -- Stanza Xxix--Xxxii [0:06:43.43]
Performers:
Washington National Cathedral Choristers
National Cathedral School Lower School Chorus
Choral Arts Society of Washington
Mstislav Rostropovich - cello
Norman Scribner – conductor
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(And for RS links, too -- wish more posters were as condsiderate as you!)
this strange & lovely little disc,
which i probably would never have stumbled upon
if not for your posting it here...
u are a good curator SiR/Mme(?):-)