Britten Studio, Aldeburgh Festival
One of the London Sinfonietta's landmark commissions of the past fifty years, Henze’s Voices is a collection of 22 folk songs from all over the world, spanning the soundworld of the Italian resistance, former Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh’s ‘Prison Song’, and African American poet Dudley Randall’s Roses and Revolution.
Henze suggests "these are the voices of the offended or humiliated…of defeated people finding other value, other notes, other voices for themselves". Written for mezzo-soprano, tenor, electronics and fifteen musicians playing around 70 different instruments, it’s a feat of contemporary composition.
Sixteen of the original 23 songs will be performed, conducted by Christian Karlsen with mezzo-soprano Carina Vinke and tenor Benjamin Hulett. The programme will also feature three new works by Nathalie Joachim, Louise Drewett and Aldeburgh Young Musicians/ Patrick Bailey arr. Louise Drewett, co-commissioned with the London Sinfonietta
Hans Werner Henze Voices (1973)
Christian Karlsen conductor
Carina Vinke mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Hulett tenor
London Sinfonietta
Spirited, meticulous and virtuoso performances under the composer's own direction
Gramophone on the London Sinfonietta's recording of Voices
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