Iannis Xenakis
Oresteïa (CD)
LabelSalabertGenreComposition
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Iannis Xenakis wrote Oresteïa in 1965-66 for a staging of Aeschylus's trilogy at Ypsilanti, Michigan, for mixed and children's choirs and a small group of winds, percussion and cello. The choirs chant, shout and hammer out the Greek text in raw, archaic blocks, while the instruments add harsh, piercing colours.
In 1987 he added Kassandra for baritone and percussion, sung here by Spyros Sakkas, moving between natural voice and falsetto, with Sylvio Gualda. Recorded at the Musica festival in Strasbourg in October 1987, with L'Ensemble de Basse-Normandie conducted by Dominique Debart. Issued in 1990 in the Salabert Actuels collection, the first complete recording.
Release notes
Oresteïa composed for children choir, mixed choir (minimum 18 female and 18 male voices, or multiples), piccolo flute, oboe, small clarinet, contrabass clarinet, tuba, percussions and cello. Public spectacle recorded 4th and 6th October 1987 at Festival Musica Strasbourg, Sainte Aurélie Church by Radio-France, produced by l'Atelier du Rhin and Production Artistique Réalisations Internationales. World premiere integral recording. Performances of Oresteïa should include Kassandra; on the…
| 1 | Agamemnon | 9:44 | |
| 2 | Kassandra | 13:47 | |
| 3 | Agamemnon (Suite Et Fin) | 4:50 | |
| 4 | Les Choephores | 11:44 | |
| 5 | Les Euménides | 9:18 |
- Jean-Michel Weber
- Artwork [Cover Model By]
- Frédéric Boufathal
- Artwork [Initial Graphics]
- Spyros Sakkas
- Baritone Vocals (2)
- Maîtrise De Colmar
- Choir [Children] (1, 3 to 5)
- Iannis Xenakis
- Composed By
- Robert Weddle
- Conductor [Choirs] (1, 3 to 5)
- Dominique Debart
- Conductor [Ensemble De Basse-normandie] (1, 3 to 5)
- Arend Prohmann
- Directed By [Recordings Artistic Director], Producer [Editing Artistic Director]
- Ensemble De Basse-Normandie
- Ensemble (1, 3 to 5)
- Ensemble Vocal D'Anjou
- Ensemble [Vocal] (1, 3 to 5)
- Enzo Restagno
- Liner Notes
- Christian Prévot
- Mixed By
- Sylvie Bouissou
- Other [Drafting], Other [Editor]
- Marie-Noël Rio
- Other [Synopsis]
- Sylvio Gualda
- Percussion (2)
- Costin Miereanu
- Producer [Artistic Director], Producer [Delegate], Producer [Editing Artistic Director]
- Jacques Launay
- Recorded By
- Jean-Luc Collard
- Recorded By
- Roland Dandaleix
- Recorded By
