Recordings

DISCOGRAPHY


MIKI Alone - Seven Songs for a Mad Woman
Figura Ensemble
Helene Gjerris, mezzo soprano

Peter Bruun, composer

About:
The Danish composer Peter Bruun has won Nordic Councils Music Prize 2008 for his music drama Miki Alone, which was staged at Den Anden Opera in 2002. It's a contemporary music drama about a modern yet mad woman's life in a circus kitchen. The CD recording is now available at Dacapo. It contains the staging's seven songs sung by Helene Gjerris, that kan be heard as a portrayal of the mad woman through her inner thoughts and emotions. The lyrics are by the poet Ursula Andkjær Olsen and accompaniment is by the Figura Ensemble.


...to arrive where we started...

Henrik Vagn Christensen, conductor
Figura Ensemble


Peter Bruun, composer
John Frandsen, composer
Ivar Frounberg, composer
Karsten Fundal, composer
Jens Hørsving, composer
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen, composer

About:
In their expressive and stylistic diversity, the six works on this CD excellently demonstrate what is happening among the younger generations of Danish composers. All the works were written for the Figura Ensemble, which with its quite unique chamber configuration of vocal soloist and instrumentalists has inspired the composers to write music with a particularly rich sonority and aura. Or, as one of the composers puts it, "Each composer discovers or invents his own "Figura sound", which he later dwells on - explores and deepens."