Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:57 minutes | 866 MB | Genre: Classical
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Originally from northern California, Tyler Futrell is an eclectic Oslo-based composer. His music attempts to synthesise almost contradictory historical branches yet his goal remains to write coherent music combining intellectual interest and perceptual fascination. His influences include musique concrète instrumentale, sacred minimalism, late romanticism, spectral music, formalism, and contemporary choreography and theatre. Tyler Futrell’s Stabat Mater immerses us in the rich history of this religious text. Preserving the melancholic beauty of the Stabat Mater settings composed over the last 600 years, Futrell exposes aspects that have previously been obscured and incorporates the concept of the glorification of suffering more generally, alluding to Samuel Barber’s Adagio. A modern take on a sacred text, and music that raises such questions as ‘why so beautiful?’ and ‘can we tolerate this beauty?’. Two other works by Futrell are also included. Vuggesang – ‘lullaby’ in Norwegian – is a meditative piece directly linked to a quotation from Brahms’s famous piece in the Stabat Mater. Brittle Fluid is also thematically and causally linked to the Stabat Mater. The title evokes a frozen waterfall, and the composer wanted to represent something both static and dynamic in which death is also present, inspired by Tarjei Vesaas’s novel The Ice Palace.
Tracklist:
1. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 1. Prelude: Crossbeam, nails (01:21)
2. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 2. Stabat Mater dolorosa (03:36)
3. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 3. Interlude: Pierced (01:10)
4. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 4. O quam tristis (01:45)
5. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 5. Quae moerebat et dolebat (01:30)
6. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 6. Quis est homo (02:31)
7. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 7. Eja Mater, Pt. 1 (02:08)
8. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 7. Eja Mater, Pt. 2 (03:40)
9. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 8. Fac me vere tecum flere (02:32)
10. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 9. Fac me plagis vulnerari (02:45)
11. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 10. Lullaby (02:00)
12. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Stabat Mater: 11. Quando corpus morietur (04:07)
13. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Brittle Fluid (11:20)
14. Eirin Rognerud, Astrid Nordstad, ERJUNGENSEMBLE & Lars-Erik ter Jung – Futrell: Vuggesang (11:27)
