Chaya Czernowin (1957-)
"Wintersongs II, Stones"
"Wintersongs IV"
"Wintersongs V, Forgotten Light"
"Five Action Sketches I, Breathe"
"Five Action Sketches II, So Narrow"
"Five Action Sketches IV, Sliver"
"Five Action Sketches V, Sand"

Jeffrey Gavett, baryton
Kai Wessel, contreténor
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)

Claire Chase, flûte basse
Kelli Kathman, flûte piccolo
Alice Teyssier, flute, flûte basse, flûte piccolo James Austin Smith, hautbois
Campbell MacDonald, clarinette basse
Joshua Rubin, clarinette, clarinette basse
Ryan Muncy, saxophone ténor, saxophone soprano, saxophone sopranino
Peter Evans, trompette
David Nelson, trombone
Andrew Madej, tuba
Kyle Armbrust, alto
Michael Nicolas, violoncelle
Logan Coale, contrebase
Nathan Davis, percussion
Ross Karre, percussion
Levy Lorenzo, percussion
William Schimmel, accordéon
Jacob Greenberg, piano
Cory Smythe, clavecin
Oren Fader, guitare
Caley Monahon-Ward, live sound

Steven Schick, direction

No other work marks the changes and and developments of Czernowin's work as Wintersongs. The first wintersong was written in 2002 and the last was written in 2014, right after HIDDEN, which marks the outward cusp of the change in Czernowin's work. While the existential and elemental quality of the music are intensely present as before, the engagement with the slower but entangled temporal perception reveals an immersive quality. The music becomes an experience where rapture and continuity are shaping the sound as if it was a living matter, while creating opening and closing spaces inside the structure.