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PURE VOICES

A cappella

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PURE VOICES

If music were light...? This programme, featuring two generations of composers from the Baltic countries, turns sound into a luminous material that shines through the concert space.
  • 16 mixed voices
  • Electronics performed in real time
  • Santa Ratniece, Justė Janulytė, Arvo Pärt, György Ligeti
  • Running time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Santa Ratniece (1977-)
Saline, 16 mixed voices a cappella (12')
Horo Hora Hata Hata, 12 mixed voices a cappella (11')

Justė Janulytė (1982-)
Iridescence, vocal ensemble and live electronics (16')

György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Lux æterna, 16 mixed voices a cappella (10')

Arvo Pärt (1935-)
Summa, mixed choir a cappella (6')

Pure voices was born out of an invitation to the 2024 Venice Biennale, the theme of which was absolute music. My research led me to discover two pieces by Latvian composer Santa Ratniece, who deploys an astonishing palette of sonorities in her treatment of voices. I also wanted to highlight her Lithuanian colleague Justė Janulytė and her electro-acoustic work on light, an explicit homage to the writing of György Ligeti. Finally, the mystical light of Arvo Pärt came to the fore.

In Pure Voices, the physical presence of the singers tends to disappear. It gives way to the vibration of the voices alone, which, magnified by the musical composition, conjure up a wilderness, the diffractions of the celestial vault and the hope of a divine possibility.

CATHERINE SIMONPIETRI