you heard this?
i heard it on npr the other night, like 3 weeks ago, and it blew me away. anyone have any insight into this guy?
he redid bach's passions with a south american flair. lots of drums and flamanco. the last part is the most amazing though. almost brought me to tears. its sung in latin and aramaic.
anyone else hear this?
― louse of heaves, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)
I haven't heard it yet, but it's going to be performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic in November, and I've been trying to decide whether I should try to go to it. Sounds like it would be worth checking out.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)
three years pass...
I'm listening to the new one, called Ayre, which I picked up because of Alex Ross' New Yorker review. And, yeah, like he says:
“Ayre,” a new song cycle by the Argentinean-born composer Osvaldo Golijov, which Deutsche Grammophon is releasing on CD on September 27th, is not only an ecstatically beautiful piece but also a radical and disorienting one. Many people, on first encountering its rasping sonorities, hurtling rhythms, and welters of lament, will be unsure whether they are listening to pop music or to classical music or to some folk ritual of indeterminate origin. However they answer, they will be right. Golijov, whose work will be celebrated at a major festival at Lincoln Center in January and February, has woven his cycle from a skein of Arabic, Hebrew, Sardinian, and Sephardic material. He has enlisted the Argentinean rock producer, film composer, and guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla to give heft and color to the sound; this music jumps out of the speakers in a way that classical records seldom do. Dawn Upshaw, the soprano, delivers an electrifying performance in which she assumes a half-dozen vocal guises. Early in the record she makes a hairpin turn from a fragile, softly glowing Sephardic song entitled “Una Madre Comió Asado” to a bloodcurdling Sardinian number entitled “Tancas Serradas a Muru”—I had to double-check the credits to make sure that Upshaw was still the singer. If a modern classical work could ever crack the Top 40, this is it: Golijov has created a new beast, of bastard parentage and glorious plumage.
― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)
seven years pass...