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James Wood : Œuvres pour ensemble de percussions. Van Sice, Wood.
Format : 1 CD
Total Time : 01:01:05

Recording : 2013-2014
Location : Leipzig/New Haven
Country : Allemagne/Etats-Unis
Sound : Eglise / Stereo

Label : NMC
Catalog No. : NMCD223
EAN : 5023363022323
Price Code : DM021A

Publishing Year : 2016
Release Date : 01/02/2016

Genre : Classical
James Wood (1953-)
Tongues of Fire, pour chœur symphonique et quatuor de percussions
Cloud-Polyphonies, sextuor de percussions

Chœur de la radio de Leipzig
Ear Massage Percussion Quartet
James Wood, direction
Yale percussion Group
Robert Van Sice, direction

James Wood’s multi-faceted career has led him into an extraordinarily broad spectrum of musical activities, as conductor, composer, musicologist, instrument designer and percussionist. Tongues of Fire (2001) is a work for symphonic chorus and percussion quartet, written for the 140th Anniversary of the Yale Glee Club. Conscious of the enormous tradition of American university Glee Clubs, and the part that gospel and spiritual music has played in it, Wood emphasizes America’s rich cultural diversity using the story of the Pentecost. The central text fr om The Acts of the Apostles is set in various languages, starting in Latin-American Spanish and splintering off into Hebrew, Maori , Jamaican English, Latin, Hungarian, Russian, German and French. A quartet of oil drums, plus cowbells, gongs, guiros and metal rods provide percussive timbral richness and power. These combine with a variety of vocal styles, including chanting, singing, hissing and whistling, to give the work a tribal feel. Percussion sextet Cloud-Polyphonies explores the movements of large formations of organisms – whether animals, insects, birds, fi sh, water, steam or crowds of human beings. The fi rst movement Starlings , is written for six marimbas and woodblocks, the second, Clouds , for metal instruments and prepared piano, and the third, Buffalo , for drums, simantras and bullroarers.

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