Michael Ostrzyga (1975-)
K'vsh-chu (Redwood's)
Season of Time; extrait de "Nine Echoes of Ancient Trees"
Endymion
Deus in adjutorium
Pulchra es
Rivers and Seas
And a Star over all
Flight
By the Numbers
Venus
Farout
Event Horizon
Talung
Pied Beauty
Virgen de las Nieves

Ensemble vocal & Kammerchor der HfMT Hamburg
Cornelius Trantow, direction

On this recording, the Ensemble vocal and Kammerchor der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (chamber choir) perform selected works by internationally renowned composer Michael Ostrzyga, who has a very close and friendly relationship with both choirs and the conductor Cornelius Trantow. The album comprises manyfold compositions that shed light onto Ostrzyga’s diverse approaches to composing, from complex inspirations in nature (e.g. astronomy and fauna) and culture (e. g. native American languages) to a diverse range of compositional devices such as vocal noise, excessive repetition, conceptual art, among more traditional devices. Meanwhile, the renditions of Ostrzyga’s works on this album still keep the listener’s ear more than satisfied.