vocalconsort initium

vocalconsort initium will perform "Übermalung nach Thomas Tallis" (overpainting to Thomas Tallis) by Kinzler from the work "vocalconsort initium ; online concert transition [sen] | transition" which was exhibited at auditorium in August 2020. Mr. Kinzler's improvisational "overpainting" of "Lamentations of Jeremiah" by the Renaissance composer Tallis was recorded on multiple recordings for the auditorium exhibition, and will be performed for the first time using live electronics.

¥500

The Corona disaster is the reason why I decided to exhibit my moving image works in the auditorium, but it is also the reason why I made this arrangement of Schoenberg's late masterpiece "A survivor of Warsaw", because the Corona disaster gave me some free time, and not because I had a specific performance opportunity in mind. It was not intended for any particular performance occasion. By substituting two pianos and percussion for the orchestral parts, the arrangement was intended to bring out Schoenberg's strong musical structure and to make it possible for a small group to perform it. 　The 'narrator', a survivor from the ghetto, is an unflinching denunciation of the inhumanity of the Nazis in the Jewish camps. The final part of the work, in the male chorus, is the prayer of a Jew about to be sent to the gas chambers. (Matsudaira)

¥500

Originally, in July 2020, the choir was planning the 5th concert, but we had to give it up due to Covid-19 problem. But we are not just going to disperse. This web site "initium; auditorium" will be opened to pursue the possibility of choral music performance in a new way of expression. At this concert, which will be the first online performance in our history of vocalconsort initium, please listen to these remote recordings of a choral works by the 20th century German neo-baroque composer Hugo Distler and a contemporary German composer Burkhard Kinzler. In addition, we will also deliver one live recording which will be our first release, from the "Hokutopia International Music Festival 2019" held in last November in Tokyo. Please watch for the possibilities of choral music you have never experienced before!

¥1,500

"sasaya[ki|cu]bism" is vocal music for 24 voices that was written in 2019 as a consignment music of premiere performance by vocalconsort initium. We provide new "Whispering Cubism" which is created by multiple recorded sounds and we made different two versions: Song with video as normal edition, and Song which is binaural audio sounds as special edition (recommend using stereo earphones). - Kaoru Tani

¥750