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Landscape With Three People

Elena Langer: Landscape With Three People

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A selection of chamber works by Elena Langer (b.1974, Moscow), notable for their playful counterpoint and delicate textures. The London-based composer delights in exploring the endless soundworlds of voices and instruments.

‘Landscape With Three People’ dates from 2013, with texts by poet Lee Harwood.

Elena moved to London to complete her degrees first at the Royal College of Music and then at the Royal Academy of Music. She has studied with Julian Anderson, Simon Bainbridge, Gerard McBurney and taken lessons with Sofia Gubaidulina (Centre Acanthes, France), Dmitri Smirnov, Jo Kondo and Jonathan Harvey. In 2002 and 2003 Elena was the first ever composer-in-residence at the Almeida Theatre, London.

She has received commissions and performances from organisations such as The Royal Opera House’s ROH2, Zurich Opera, Carnegie Hall, The Britten and Strauss Festival in Aldeburgh, Park Lane Group, St. Petersburg’s Music Spring, Chamber Music Series “XX/XXI” of the Bayerische Staatsoper (Germany). This recording project was generously funded by Blyth Valley Chamber Music, the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust and a large number of individuals. The new CD will be launched in parallel with the first public performances in Cardiff of the composer’s ‘Figaro Gets A Divorce’, a new opera for Welsh National Opera under David Pountney.

Reviews:

“[Landscape with Three People] nimble and light, sensual without forcing the point, folksy but not quite fey; whimsical, in the deconstructed manner of Berio or Nono. The two voices lilt together [and]…the performance is excellent — especially from Dennis, whose voice is beautifully grainy but still laced with metal. The album also contains older Langer songs including the haunting Russian lament Tucha and a feverish 17-minute monologue called Ariadne.” —Kate Molleson, The Guardian

Tracks:

    Elena Langer: Landscape With Three People

  1. I. Landscape With Three People
  2. II. First Love Scene
  3. III. Train Love Poem
  4. IV. Distance
  5. V. His Return
  6. VI. Stop It
  7. VII. Distance
  8. VIII. I Hear You
  9. Elena Langer: Snow

  10. Snow
  11. Elena Langer: The Storm Cloud (Tucha)

  12. The Storm Cloud (Tucha)
  13. Elena Langer: Two Cat Songs

  14. I. The Amazing Cat
  15. II. Cats
  16. Elena Langer: Ariadne

  17. Ariadne
  18. Elena Langer: Stay O Sweet

  19. Stay O Sweet

Roman Mints Recordings:

  • Hindemith: Complete Works for Violin and Piano
  • Elena Langer: Landscape With Three People
  • Dance of Shadows
  • DOBRINKA TABAKOVA: STRING PATHS
  • The Leaden Echo
  • Exodus
  • Mozetich | Langer | Schnittke
  • Roman Mints: Game Over
  • Transformations

“…what really matters is his ability to work with each of the selections on the composer’s own terms. There is no questioning the technical skill he brings to each of the pieces he performs. More important, however, is his acute awareness of where the music actually resides beneath the surface level of all the marks on the score pages.”—Examiner.com

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