VAN CAMP The Feasts of Fear and Agony
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Composer or Director: Bram van Camp
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Fuga Libera
Magazine Review Date: 03/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 63
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: FUG715
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
The Feasts of Fear and Agony |
Bram van Camp, Composer
Bram van Camp, Composer Het Collectief Liesbeth Devos, Soprano Vykintas Baltakas, Conductor |
Music for 3 Instruments |
Bram van Camp, Composer
Bram van Camp, Composer Het Collectief Vykintas Baltakas, Conductor |
Improvisations |
Bram van Camp, Composer
Bram van Camp, Composer Het Collectief Vykintas Baltakas, Conductor |
Author: Richard Whitehouse
The members of Het Collectief are finely attuned to the demands of this music under the guidance of Vykintas Baltakas, which is no less true of the two instrumental works featured here. Music for Three Instruments brings together the Bartókian combination of clarinet, violin and piano, though its ‘contrasts’ in tempo are elided so as to achieve a seamless continuity – abetted by writing that draws the trio into an indissoluble whole. Improvisations is even more impressive, its outwardly free evolution given focus by a formal outline with more than a hint of the chaconne to its unfolding – as if Bach and Lachenmann had been brought into an unlikely yet productive accord. Performances again do justice to these engrossing pieces, heard to advantage in sound whose clarity is not at the expense of overall perspective. The booklet has a laconic interview with Van Camp – whose music, on the basis of this release, is worth getting to know.
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