{"id":854,"date":"2021-10-07T12:47:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T10:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/?p=854"},"modified":"2021-10-13T12:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T10:37:21","slug":"emily-dangelo-stellt-ihr-debuetalbum-auf-deutsche-grammophon-vor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/news\/emily-dangelo\/emily-dangelo-stellt-ihr-debuetalbum-auf-deutsche-grammophon-vor\/","title":{"rendered":"OUT NOW: Emily D\u2019Angelo\u2019s DG debut album “enargeia”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emily D\u2019Angelo\u2019s DG debut album features music by Hildegard von Bingen, Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir, Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Kirkland Snider<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis record is a soundworld, bound together by the multisensory ancient concept of enargeia<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily D\u2019Angelo<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a word, Emily D\u2019Angelo is a phenomenon\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Le Devoir<\/em><\/p>\n

Concept, character and cool \u2013 Emily D\u2019Angelo<\/strong>\u2019s debut album on Deutsche Grammophon <\/strong>encompasses everything that comes so naturally to this young Canadian vocalist. Her chosen title for this thoughtfully curated sonic journey comes from Hellenistic rhetoric and sums up the essence of the album: enargeia <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 in the artist\u2019s own words \u2013 \u201ca description so vivid it seems to conjure its subject into existence\u201d.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo has chosen music from the 12th<\/sup> and 21st<\/sup> centuries written by four female composers \u2013 Hildegard von Bingen, Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir, Missy Mazzoli <\/strong>and Sarah Kirkland Snider<\/strong> \u2013 several of whose works are presented in brand-new chamber\/electronic arrangements. \u201cEach track is born out of the previous,\u201d explains the singer, \u201cas the listener is guided through a progres\u00adsion, a cohesive and exploratory listening experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

enargeia<\/em> was recorded in Berlin between December 2020 and March 2021 in collaboration with das<\/strong> freie orchester Berlin<\/strong> and conductor Jarkko Riihim\u00e4ki<\/strong>, the Kuss Quartett<\/strong> and Matangi Quartet<\/strong>, and solo instrumentalists Wolfgang Fischer<\/strong>, Ren\u00e9 Fl\u00e4chsenhaar<\/strong>, Mikayel Hakhnazaryan<\/strong>, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric L\u2019\u00c9p\u00e9e<\/strong>, Jonas Niederstadt<\/strong>, Marc Prietzel<\/strong>, Marion Ravot, Christian Vogel <\/strong>and Norbert Wahren<\/strong>. The album will be released on 8\u00a0October 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo\u2019s starting-point in creating energeia <\/em>was the work of a musical and intellectual luminary, the medieval Benedictine abbess, scientist, poet, composer and visionary Hildegard von Bingen. As she recalls, \u201cI discovered her music as a kid, when I was singing in choir, and I was transfixed. I\u2019d never heard anything like it before, yet it all sounded so familiar and organic.\u201d Hildegard\u2019s influence runs like a thread throughout the album, whose works, says the singer, all have in common \u201cthe sense of expansiveness in her compositions, the multi-disciplinary expression of her ideas and her belief in music as a heightened communicative mode\u201d.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo\u2019s concept of the music she performs is the combination of words, rhythm and pitch: \u201cNo matter the style, it all comes down to these three things\u201d, and Hildegard von Bingen\u2019s work exemplifies this in its essential quality as \u201ca single vocal line and the text\u201d. The composer\u2019s two pieces on the album, one in praise of divine wisdom, O virtus Sapientiae<\/em>, the other an antiphon to the Virgin Mary, O frondens virga<\/em>, are heard in arrangements by two outstanding contemporary American composers whose original work also features here: Sarah Kirkland Snider and Missy Mazzoli. D\u2019Angelo brings a radiant purity to the Latin lyrics and unadorned vocal lines of both new settings.<\/p>\n

If Hildegard marks one point in the long history of spirituality in music, Missy Mazzoli marks another in her Vespers for a New Dark Age<\/em>. For D\u2019Angelo it\u2019s \u201ca completely different take on the spiritual element of music\u201d. This 2014 work in fact replaces the texts of the traditional Vespers service with secular poetry by contemporary American writer Matthew Zapruder, while at the same time preserving the ritual and repetitive qualities of the original. Both the Vespers <\/em>pieces and the two excerpts from Song from the Uproar<\/em>, Mazzoli\u2019s chamber opera about the extraordinary life of Swiss explorer, writer and Sufi Isabelle Eberhardt, highlight the dramatic flair that has already brought D\u2019Angelo such glowing reviews for her operatic performances.<\/p>\n

The element of character is further explored in the presence of the classical figure of Penelope in the song-cycle of that name by Sarah Kirkland Snider. Inspired by Homer\u2019s The Odyssey<\/em>, it tells of a woman\u2019s husband, veteran of an unnamed war, who returns, brain-damaged, after a 20-year absence. \u201cRuminating on themes of memory, identity and returning home\u201d, says D\u2019Angelo, \u201cthese works show how art, literature and history can serve as a gateway to understanding the present.\u201d She infuses her interpretations of the three extracts presented here with dark, haunting colours, while her clarity of tone, notable throughout enargeia<\/em><\/strong>, brings out every nuance of Ellen McLaughlin\u2019s emotive lyrics.<\/p>\n

Past and present co-exist too in the work of the Grammy Award-winning Icelandic composer Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir, \u201cwhose use of bowed instruments as a drone\u201d, notes D\u2019Angelo, \u201charkens to medieval music but through a modern, ambient lens\u201d. In F\u00f3lk faer andlit<\/em>, part of the composer\u2019s 2020 response to the plight of refugees in her native country, D\u2019Angelo\u2019s voice soars above winds and strings in a line of plainchant-like simplicity, while her gleaming vocals are used to stunning effect in Li<\/em>\u00f0ur<\/em>, an extract from Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir\u2019s award-winning music for the TV series Chernobyl<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The album showcases a host of musical collaborators, notably Jarkko Riihim\u00e4ki who has arranged many of the pieces, creating a broad range of sensitive accompaniments that offset the singer\u2019s rich tone with everything from a single cello to a 20-piece string orchestra, and ultimately broadens into electric guitar, bass and drums while D\u2019Angelo duets with herself in the final work, Snider\u2019s The Lotus Eaters<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Concept, character and cool \u2013 Emily D\u2019Angelo\u2019s debut album on Deutsche Grammophon encompasses everything that comes so naturally to this young Canadian vocalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emily-dangelo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}