Through the Night

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Azkoul and his group feel fresh, dissolving a lot of conventions in both programming and performance. Not everything works, but ‘Through the Night’ proposes a model for a viable, youthful future... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2023
Catalogue No: BIS2589
Label: BIS
Length: 77 minutes

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Strauss, R: Metamorphosen

Work length25:47

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Arr. for String Orchestra by Éric Mouret
United Strings of Europe
Julian Azkoul

Casulana: Morir Non Puo Il Mio Cuore

Work length6:37

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Arr. for String Orchestra by Simon Parkin
United Strings of Europe
Julian Azkoul

Kidane: Be Still

Work length6:35

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Beibei Wang
United Strings of Europe
Julian Azkoul

Gesualdo: Tristis est anima mea

Work length5:00

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Arr. for String Orchestra by Michi Wiancko
United Strings of Europe
Julian Azkoul

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Work length29:56

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United Strings of Europe
Julian Azkoul

Purcell: When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)

Work length3:49

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Arr. for String Orchestra by Leopold Stokowski
United Strings of Europe
Julian Azkoul

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For their fourth release with BIS, the United Strings of Europe with their director Julian Azkoul present another innovative programme, dedicated this time to the night, a source of wonder and fascination, rich with metaphorical associations. The ensemble’s varied, tailor-made programme features counterpoint, aching dissonance and chromaticism from across a range of styles spanning nearly 500 years, from the Renaissance to the present day. The album is built around two post-romantic masterpieces: Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (here in an arrangement by Éric Mouret), a work composed during the final months of the Second World War that evokes destruction, mourning, nostalgia, but also hope for progress and transformation, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, based on a poem by Richard Dehmel, which, in a nocturnal dialogue between a man and a woman, shows the power of love that can overcome the greatest challenges. These two major works are joined by arrangements for strings of vocal pieces by Maddelena Casulana, Carlo Gesualdo and Henry Purcell, as well as a new work by Daniel Kidane, Be Still, featuring percussionist Beibei Wang, a reflection on recent years marked by lockdowns during which everyday markers, such as meeting with friends and family, travelling or attending concerts vanished.

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January 2024

Azkoul and his group feel fresh, dissolving a lot of conventions in both programming and performance. Not everything works, but ‘Through the Night’ proposes a model for a viable, youthful future for chamber music.

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