Arthur Honegger’s song output falls into two distinct periods.
The first spans his apprentice years from 1914 – the date of the first
of the 4 Poèmes H.7 – to 1924. He returned to art song
on the eve of the Second World War, and Eleni-Lydia Stamellou sings
two further sets of songs originally conceived as film accompaniments.
In the 4 Poems there is a Debussyan turn
to the harmony which mirrors the symbolist flavour.
The first spans his apprentice years from 1914 – the date of the first
of the 4 Poèmes H.7 – to 1924. He returned to art song
on the eve of the Second World War, and Eleni-Lydia Stamellou sings
two further sets of songs originally conceived as film accompaniments.
In the 4 Poems there is a Debussyan turn
to the harmony which mirrors the symbolist flavour.
Composer: Andrea Falconieri, Barbara Strozzi, Claudio Monteverdi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giulio Caccini, Jacopo Peri
Artist: Eleni Lydia Stamellou soprano
Konstantin Shenikov lute
Artist: Eleni Lydia Stamellou soprano
Konstantin Shenikov lute
HR Recordings starts the new year with a production dedicated
to the still-not-well-known vocal compositions by Mauro Giuliani.
This album contains songs in French, Italian and German including
the “Romances op. 13 and 22”, “Cavatine op.39”, “Lieder op.89”
and the first world recording of the “Romance op.151” and
the “Ode di Anacreonte op.151bis” as well as one of the “Ariette op.95”.
To present this beautiful and unique program we introduce
an exceptional young singer: Eleni-Lydia Stamellou accompanied
by guitarist Agustin Maruri.
An intimate 19th Century Voice and Guitar Romantic Music
program to discover. It is a DSD Exclusive, Not Available
on SACD release at NativeDSD.
Eleni-Lydia Stamellou – Soprano
Agustín Maruri-Guitar
to the still-not-well-known vocal compositions by Mauro Giuliani.
This album contains songs in French, Italian and German including
the “Romances op. 13 and 22”, “Cavatine op.39”, “Lieder op.89”
and the first world recording of the “Romance op.151” and
the “Ode di Anacreonte op.151bis” as well as one of the “Ariette op.95”.
To present this beautiful and unique program we introduce
an exceptional young singer: Eleni-Lydia Stamellou accompanied
by guitarist Agustin Maruri.
An intimate 19th Century Voice and Guitar Romantic Music
program to discover. It is a DSD Exclusive, Not Available
on SACD release at NativeDSD.
Eleni-Lydia Stamellou – Soprano
Agustín Maruri-Guitar
A contemporary rendition of Nosferatu can be interesting only when viewed through the prism of an ontological interpretation of certain dichotomies, such as spirit and body, light and darkness, the masculine and the feminine, the warm and the cold, East and West, life and death.
In this sense, blood is a unique embodiment of such dichotomies:
when it circulates through our veins, being concealed from our eyes,
it symbolizes life, but when we see blood spilled, it stands for death.
Nosferatu needs to imbibe blood, in order to go beyond the ordinary and the commonplace, to be in contact with the unknown
and the transcendental. In his quest for the unknowable, he is poised between life and death.
In this sense, blood is a unique embodiment of such dichotomies:
when it circulates through our veins, being concealed from our eyes,
it symbolizes life, but when we see blood spilled, it stands for death.
Nosferatu needs to imbibe blood, in order to go beyond the ordinary and the commonplace, to be in contact with the unknown
and the transcendental. In his quest for the unknowable, he is poised between life and death.