Puccini: Madama Butterfly CD

Puccini: Madama Butterfly songs. 3cds: 1=Aleko;2=Miserly Knight ;3=Francesca Da Rimini/N.Jarvi

Puccini: Madama Butterfly music CDs. During the past 30 years, the Delme String Quartet has built a reputation as one of Britain's leading interpreters of the classical repertoire. Since entering the music profession in 1971, Julian Farrell has become recognized as one of London's foremost

Performed by the Ensemble Avantgarde, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Michael Morgan, this is a very sensitive and fine performance of the new music classic "Durations I-V." In these five innovative pieces, the composer gave over control of the duration parameter entirely to the performers (there are only notes without stems, therefore no divided rhythm) -- the pulse (ictus) is slow, all is quiet, the tones have a minimum of attack. Thus, each performance is unique, and creates its own timbre combinations and exquisite beauty of a transparent sound texture. By contrast, "Coptic Light" for orchestra is of an extremely dense, polyrhythmic texture that shifts slowly by rhythmic staggering (phase shifting) within orchestral groups, creating the unique effect of a shimmering of sound analogous to the shimmering of light on water. The specific visual analog in Feldman's mind was the fine interweaving of ...

....just a little touch out of conventional contact with musical notes....sounds, emotions, feeling inside the visions of moving clouds and between land and sky of his world....no more.....

Track Listing of songs: Serenade; Pied Piper; Elegy; Episodic Refraction; Vocalise; Masquerade; Mere Bagatelle;