Quatre Chants Pour Franchir Le Seuil

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Album Info

Release Date: 2001

Labels: KAIROS, Edel Classics

Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (1997-98) für Sopran und Ensemble.

Recording venue: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal.
Recording date: 30.-31.10.2000.

© & ℗ 2001 KAIROS Production.
Made in Germany

Texts from
[Prélude:] Les heures de la nuit = Die Stunden der Nacht = The Hours of the Night (Christian Guez-Ricord)
[Interlude:] Egyptian Sarcophagi of the Middle Period, Erinna
[Faux Interlude:] L'épopée de Gilgamesh = Der Gilgamesch-Epos = The Epic of Gilgamesh

Publisher: Ricordi, Milano.

Released in SmartPac (CD is on the right) with bound-in booklet in German, English and French (38 pages).
CD-SmartPac® by Herzog + Idex

Booklet includes articles by Peter Niklas Wilson ("Threshold Songs") and Philippe Hurel ("Spectral Music: Long-Term ... Perspectives"), sung texts and artist descriptions, along with the following images:
Gérard Grisey (Cover photo, © Guy Vivien)
Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, p.132 [of score] © Ricordi München (p.4)
Placement of the instruments © Ricordi München (p.10)
Catherine Dubosc © Rens Lipsius (p.37)
Klangforum Wien © Klangforum (p.37)
Sylvain Cambreling © SWR-Sinfonieorch. Baden-Baden & Freiburg (p.38)

Hurel's article, translated into German by Martin Kaltenecker, was first published in the annual of the WIEN MODERN 2000 Festival. It is reprinted by kind permission of the author and WIEN MODERN.

TT: 41:34.