Iannis Xenakis - Oresteïa
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Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) - Oresteïa [2002]
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Modern classical / Choral / Avant-garde
| “ | A savage, insolent liturgy under the sun of Aeschylus' Greece, the cantata Oresteïa is anything but decorative music, something its composer abhorred ... Yet in it Iannis Xenakis nonetheless shows he has the same metaphysical preoccupations as ancient Greece. He determinedly captivates, fascinates and charms the listener with the jubilation and the rhythm of his movement, his grandiose male choruses [Agamemnon], the overwhelming clamour of his female voices [Les Chorephores] and the transfigured orality of Kassandra — an unnatural union between the very highest register of the baritone Spiros Sakkas and the thundering percussion of Sylvio Gualda. | ” |
Classicstoday.com review:
| “ | The origins of Iannis Xenakis' Oresteïa are almost more remarkable than the music itself, a truly bizarre "only in the USA" sort of story. Sometime in the 1960s the town of Ypsilanti, Michigan discovered that its name was not derived from some Native American language, but rather from Greek. Filled with pride at its newfound ethnic association, the town decided to hold a Greek festival capped by performances of The Birds and Oresteïa in a Greek-style amphitheater constructed on the local university baseball field. They hired an authentic Greek director and also agreed to engage the services of an authentic Greek composer to write the incidental score. Xenakis, in turn, fired with enthusiasm for the project, wrote more than an hour and a half of music for the production, which by all accounts was a huge success. In order to salvage the work for concert performance, Xenakis later prepared a cantata lasting around 50 minutes, adding in the mid-1980s the movement "Kassandra"--and here we have the result. Okay, so it's not exactly as easy to listen to as Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky, another cantata that grew out of, shall we say, populist roots (in this case a film score), but anyone who thinks that Xenakis is unapproachable might hear Oresteïa and reconsider this hasty judgment. What gives this music its strange fascination is the combination of generally tonal, chant-like vocal elements with primitive sounding (but actually very technically sophisticated) instrumental interludes. In this respect we're not so far away from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, the vocal works of Varèse, or (perish the thought) the later settings of Greek drama by Carl Orff. You can hear this very clearly in the second movement, Kassandra, with its delirious writing for percussion and high baritone, as well as in the chanting of the chorus in Les Choephores. The stylized instrumental writing, often monophonic and permeated with strange percussion sounds and extremes of pitch (both high and low), adds to the impression of primal starkness, and how well it suits the drama! | ” |
Recording date: 1987
Tracks:
1. Agamemnon
2. Kassandra
3. Agamemnon
4. Les Choephores
5. Les Euménides
Personnel:
Maîtrise de Colmar
Ensemble Vocal d'Anjou
Ensemble de Basse-Normandie
Spiros Sakkas - baritone
Sylvio Gualda - percussion
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