Elena Langer: Landscape With Three People

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This is the first disc solely dedicated to the music of Elena Langer and it offers and exquisitely performed showcase of her vocal-chamber works…here the human voice is also centre-stage in music... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2016 More…

Release Date: 5th Feb 2016
Catalogue No: HMU907669
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 59 minutes

Langer, E: Landscape With Three People

Work length24:23

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Anna Dennis, William Towers, Nicholas Daniel, Roman Mints, Meghan Cassidy, Kristina Blaumane, Robert Howarth

I. Landscape With Three People

Track length5:02

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II. First Love Scene

Track length2:25

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III. Train Love Poem

Track length1:14

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IV. Distance

Track length2:16

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V. His Return

Track length3:02

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VI. Stop It

Track length2:57

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VII. Distance

Track length1:30

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VIII. I Hear You

Track length5:57

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Langer, E: Snow

Work length2:52

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Roman Mints, Katya Apekisheva

Langer, E: The Storm Cloud (Tucha)

Work length4:55

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Anna Dennis, Katya Apekisheva

Langer, E: Two Cat Songs

Work length6:40

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Anna Dennis, Kristina Blaumane, Katya Apekisheva

I. The Amazing Cat

Track length3:37

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II. Cats

Track length3:03

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Langer, E: Ariadne

Work length17:10

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Anna Dennis, Nicholas Daniel, Roman Mints, Meghan Cassidy, Kristina Blaumane

Langer, E: Stay O Sweet

Work length3:48

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Anna Dennis, Nicholas Daniel, Roman Mints, Meghan Cassidy, Kristina Blaumane, Robert Howarth

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A selection of chamber works by Elena Langer (b.1974, Moscow), notable for their playful counterpoint and delicate textures. The London-based composer delights in exploring the endless soundworlds of voices and instruments.

'Landscape With Three People' dates from 2013, with texts by poet Lee Harwood.

Elena moved to London to complete her degrees first at the Royal College of Music and then at the Royal Academy of Music. She has studied with Julian Anderson, Simon Bainbridge, Gerard McBurney and taken lessons with Sofia Gubaidulina (Centre Acanthes, France), Dmitri Smirnov, Jo Kondo and Jonathan Harvey. In 2002 and 2003 Elena was the first ever composer-in-residence at the Almeida Theatre, London.

She has received commissions and performances from organisations such as The Royal Opera House's ROH2, Zurich Opera, Carnegie Hall, The Britten and Strauss Festival in Aldeburgh, Park Lane Group, St. Petersburg's Music Spring, Chamber Music Series "XX/XXI" of the Bayerische Staatsoper (Germany). This recording project was generously funded by Blyth Valley Chamber Music, the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust and a large number of individuals. The new CD will be launched in parallel with the first public performances in Cardiff of the composer’s 'Figaro Gets A Divorce', a new opera for Welsh National Opera under David Pountney.

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April 2016

This is the first disc solely dedicated to the music of Elena Langer and it offers and exquisitely performed showcase of her vocal-chamber works…here the human voice is also centre-stage in music of crystalline, bright purity…the refined voices of Anna Dennis and William Towers intertwine with moving lyricism…Dennis inhabits every corner of the lamenting, lovesick Ariadne in her thorny, freewheeling monologue

CD Review 05/03/2016

[Langer] is a natural dramatist to her fingertips; everything she touches it just tingles with storytelling … it’s got a lovely texture because of those baroque resources … I feel the spirit of Britten is there… I really love the quality of the voices here, it’s beautifully performed

January 2016

[Landscape with Three People] nimble and light, sensual without forcing the point, folksy but not quite fey; whimsical, in the deconstructed manner of Berio or Nono. The two voices lilt together [and]…the performance is excellent — especially from Dennis, whose voice is beautifully grainy but still laced with metal. The album also contains older Langer songs including the haunting Russian lament Tucha and a feverish 17-minute monologue called Ariadne.

Elena Langer: Landscape With Three People

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