David Lang - The National Anthems, The Little Match Girl Passion
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Label: Cantaloupe
Cat No: CA21119
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 29th July 2016
Contents
Artists
Los Angeles Master ChoraleCalder Quartet
Conductor
Grant GershonWorks
The Little Match Girl PassionThe National Anthems
Artists
Los Angeles Master ChoraleCalder Quartet
Conductor
Grant GershonAbout
But taken as a whole, the two works also make a lasting statement about our place in the world we share with each other. As Lang himself describes it: “Both pieces try to use music to show us how we could be or should be better people. the national anthems scours the anthems of all the countries in the world, hoping to find common ground that might allow us to understand each other, across all our artificial boundaries. And the little match girl passion is an attempt to ennoble the idea that it’s important for us to notice the suffering of people around us.”
Also featuring the Calder Quartet, lauded by the New York Times as “[living proof that] the time-honored string quartet still provides fertile ground for innovation and surprise.”
Reviews
Of the three Bang on a Can founder composers, David Lang’s music has always been the glassiest, the sparest, and for some listeners the most precious. In recent years, his aesthetic has become leaner still, paring down already simple material to gaunt extremes in something approaching neo-plainchant. The national anthems (note the lower case; nothing vainglorious here) takes fragments of text from the anthems of all 193 United Nations member states and unfolds at speaking speed, with plenty of room for breaths between phrases and plenty of clarity to the words. It has the feel of sad and eerie intoning. The Los Angeles choir clinches the right sound for Lang – unflinching, spellbound – while the Calder Quartet gives sleek accompaniment. Kate MollesonError on this page? Let us know here
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