The Hour of The Wolf by Tina Reynaert

Tina Reynaert

The Hour of The Wolf

Format: CD
Label: Antarctica
UPC: 0608917732726
Catnr: AR 027
Release date: 04 March 2022

1 CD

Label
Antarctica

UPC
0608917732726

Catalogue number
AR 027

Release date
04 March 2022

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About the album

"The hour between night and dawn ... when most people die, sleep is deepest, nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their worst anguish, when ghosts and demons are most powerful. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most babies are born." - INGMAR BERGMAN

Tina Reynaert wants to create a platform for new piano music that has not yet been performed or discovered. The authenticity of contemporary acoustic music deserves to be recorded and to reach a wider audience. “The Hour of the Wolf” is a compilation of what she believes to be canonical works from the period 1990 to 2021.

Tina’s journey began some years ago, when she started collecting piano pieces by composers from all over the world. She asked a number of them to compose and dedicate a piece to her. Given all the new musical developments and idioms of the twentieth century (atonality, serialism, multiple serialism, spectralism, extended techniques, …), Tina wanted to discover how composers work today.

What is their musical signature? Which new works illustrate the times in which we live? What more can be added or has the power to transform? This CD is an attempt to answer such questions.

"Die Stunde zwischen Nacht und Morgengrauen ... wenn die meisten Menschen sterben, der Schlaf am tiefsten ist und die Albträume am realsten sind. Es ist die Stunde, in der die Schlaflosen von ihren schlimmsten Ängsten heimgesucht werden, in der Geister und Dämonen am mächtigsten sind. Die Stunde des Wolfes ist auch die Stunde, in der die meisten Babys geboren werden." - INGMAR BERGMAN
Tina Reynaert möchte eine Plattform für neue Klaviermusik schaffen, die noch nicht aufgeführt oder entdeckt wurde. Die Authentizität der zeitgenössischen akustischen Musik hat es verdient, aufgenommen zu werden und ein breiteres Publikum zu erreichen. "The Hour of the Wolf" ist eine Zusammenstellung von Werken, die sie für kanonisch hält, aus der Zeit von 1990 bis 2021.
Tinas Reise begann vor einigen Jahren, als sie begann, Klavierstücke von Komponisten aus der ganzen Welt zu sammeln. Sie bat eine Reihe von ihnen, ein Stück zu komponieren und ihr zu widmen. Angesichts all der neuen musikalischen Entwicklungen und Idiome des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (Atonalität, Serialismus, multipler Serialismus, Spektralismus, erweiterte Techniken, ...) wollte Tina herausfinden, wie Komponisten heute arbeiten.
Was ist ihre musikalische Handschrift? Welche neuen Werke veranschaulichen die Zeit, in der wir leben? Was kann noch hinzugefügt werden oder hat die Kraft zur Veränderung? Diese CD ist ein Versuch, solche Fragen zu beantworten.

Artist(s)

Tina Reynaert (piano)

Tina Reynaert (°1991) is a classically schooled pianist who is driven by innovation. She explores fields unknown by many. Female composers, unknown composers, Flemish modernists, poets, visual artists are what inspire her. New album ‘The Hour of the Wolf’ includes unknown masterpieces of the 21st Century.

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Robert Nasveld

Calliope Tsoupaki

Calliope Tsoupaki was born in 1963 in Piraeus, Greece. In 1988 she moved to the Netherlands to study composition with her idol Louis Andriessen. She has grown into one of the most talked-about composers in that country. Calliope Tsoupaki makes music that has a mood of timelessness. Her objective is expressing the essence as simply and clearly as possible. In her compositions she uses elements of early and contemporary music as well as the music of Greece and the Middle East. Combining these aspects, she skillfully creates a completely personal style. Her music is praised for its melodic character, warm sound and emotional quality. To date her oeuvre consists of more than 100 works for diverse instrumentation and instruments from different cultures (qaunun, ney, kemençe, hurdy gurdy, vielle, viola da gamba), from solo to orchestral works, choral music, dance, theatre, opera and multisensory projects. She has developed into one of the defining composers of Dutch musical life, collaborating with, among others, Eric Vloeimans, Pierre Audi, Paul Koek, Jordi Savall, Kees Boeke, Frances-Marie Uitti and ensembles including the Metropole Orchestra, Netherlands Bach Society, Ensemble Tetraktys, Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Nieuw Amsterdams Peil, Ergon Ensemble and Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Overwhelming successes include her operas Fortress Europe and Mariken in the Garden of Delights, St. Luke Passion, song cycle Face of Love for singer Nena Venetsanou, oratorio Oidipous, Narcissus (a play for music and scent), Maria for the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the chamber operas Dark (about Joan of Arc, libretto Edzard Mik), Vita Nova (based on Dante's book of the same title) and the string quartet Triptychon for the DoelenKwartet.
Calliope Tsoupaki teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

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