John Zorn - Chimeras (Revised Edition) (2010)
John Zorn - Chimeras (Revised Edition) (2010)
Avant-Garde/Composer/Vocal | MP3 | CBR 320 kbps | 32:53 | 76 MB
A highly unusual composition, even for John Zorn, "Chimeras" consists of twelve movements (and one interlude) scored for sextet plus voice. Each movement pits the vocalist (primarily soprano Ilana Davidson, joined by Elizabeth Farnum on two movements) against some combination of the accompaniment– two reeds (Tara O'Connor on flutes, Mike Lowenstern on clarinet), two strings (Jennifer Choi on violin and Fred Sherry on cello), keyboard (Stephen Drury, performing at piano, organ, and celesta) and percussion (William Winant). The music is loosely influenced by Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire", with the same instrumentatal arrangement but with percussion added), but it's probably the cover, a reproduction of a painting by Heironymous Bosch, that best sums up what's held inside.
1. John Zorn - One (1:50)
2. John Zorn - Two (2:42)
3. John Zorn - Three (2:04)
4. John Zorn - Four (1:24)
5. John Zorn - Five (3:16)
6. John Zorn - Six (4:16)
7. John Zorn - Seven (3:10)
8. John Zorn - Eight (2:48)
9. John Zorn - Nine (2:39)
10. John Zorn - Ten (0:55)
11. John Zorn - Interlude (2:54)
12. John Zorn - Eleven (1:44)
13. John Zorn - Twelve (2:55)
14. John Zorn - Postlude (0:16)
Newly revised, this is the definitive version of a Zorn masterpiece!
Loosely inspired by the remarkable worlds of Henry Darger, Lewis Carroll and Unica Zurn
which throw childlike innocence against a backdrop of violence and perversion, Chimeras
is one of Zorn's greatest works in the classical tradition. A work of fantasy and
imagination scored for a Pierrot Lunaire ensemble plus percussion, the work has been
resequenced, remastered and a brief, fleeting newly recorded postlude has been added.
Dramatic and colorful, Chimeras is a work filled with femininity, innocence, beauty and violence.