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Srikandi
Various composers

Duo Saraswati

Srikandi

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917298628
Catnr: CC 72986
Release date: 27 September 2024
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Challenge Classics
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0608917298628
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CC 72986
Release date
27 September 2024
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About the album

Music in Bali plays a vital role in society and in daily life. Apart from serving art, music is also used to support religious ceremonies. For us as brothers from a Dutch father and Balinese mother, music was also a daily presence in our lives. We grew up in The Netherlands and are trained classical musicians but the Balinese music always served as a great source of inspiration. This album resembles the mutual inspiration from two different cultures that are actually closer that one would think at first hand.
Musik spielt auf Bali eine wichtige Rolle in der Gesellschaft und im täglichen Leben. Abgesehen davon, dass sie der Kunst dient, wird Musik auch zur Unterstützung religiöser Zeremonien eingesetzt. Für uns als Brüder eines holländischen Vaters und einer balinesischen Mutter war die Musik auch in unserem Leben allgegenwärtig. Wir sind in den Niederlanden aufgewachsen und sind ausgebildete klassische Musiker, aber die balinesische Musik war für uns immer eine große Inspirationsquelle. Dieses Album spiegelt die gegenseitige Inspiration von zwei verschiedenen Kulturen wider, die sich eigentlich näher sind, als man auf den ersten Blick denken würde.

Artist(s)

Duo Saraswati

Duo Saraswati is een cello-piano duo bestaande uit de broers Jan en Kris van der Plas. Beiden zijn opgegroeid en opgeleid in Nederland, maar willen met hun uitgesproken Balinese achtergrond de connectie maken tussen traditionele Indonesische muziek en de klassieke muziek uit Europa.
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Duo Saraswati is een cello-piano duo bestaande uit de broers Jan en Kris van der Plas. Beiden zijn opgegroeid en opgeleid in Nederland, maar willen met hun uitgesproken Balinese achtergrond de connectie maken tussen traditionele Indonesische muziek en de klassieke muziek uit Europa.

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Composer(s)

Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with...
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Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with the legendary cellist Rostropovich led to a Cello sonata, three Suites for cello solo and a Symphony for Cello and orchestra in the 1960s.

Britten never became Master of the Queen's Music, yet he surely had feeling for public sentiments. For example, as a pacifist, he taught his people about world peace through his War Requiem from 1962. Britten was an excellent interpreter of his own work, just like Bartók and Stravinsky. Many of his recordings have been matched, but never exceeded.


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Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy was a French composer. He and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1903. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed. Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent usage of non-traditional tonalities. The prominent French literary style of his period was known as Symbolism, and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant Among his most famous works are his Clair de Lune, his Three Nocturnes...
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Claude Debussy was a French composer. He and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1903. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed.
Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent usage of non-traditional tonalities. The prominent French literary style of his period was known as Symbolism, and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant Among his most famous works are his Clair de Lune, his Three Nocturnes and his orchestral piece La Mer.


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Béla Bartók

Next to Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók was a third seminal innovator of European art music at the start of the twentieth century. Bartók, too, sought a way out of the deadlock of tonal music around 1900, and he found it in folk music. Initially, he tied in with the nationalistic tradition of Franz Liszt with his tone poem Kossuth, but eventually he found his own voice with the rediscovery of the music of Hungarian peasants. Together with Zoltán Kodály he was one of the first to apply the results of folkloric research into his own compositions. One major difference between him and composers of the 19th century, was that Bartók did not adjust to the system of tonality, but created...
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Next to Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók was a third seminal innovator of European art music at the start of the twentieth century. Bartók, too, sought a way out of the deadlock of tonal music around 1900, and he found it in folk music. Initially, he tied in with the nationalistic tradition of Franz Liszt with his tone poem Kossuth, but eventually he found his own voice with the rediscovery of the music of Hungarian peasants. Together with Zoltán Kodály he was one of the first to apply the results of folkloric research into his own compositions. One major difference between him and composers of the 19th century, was that Bartók did not adjust to the system of tonality, but created his own musical idiom from folk music. Because of this, his composition style was flexible to other musical trends, without having to violate his own view points. For example, his two Violin sonates come close to Schoenberg's free expressionism, and after 1926 his music started to show neoclassicistic tendencies, comparable to Stravinsky's music. Bartók was not just interested in Hungarian folk music, but could appreciate musical folklore from all of the Balkan, Turkey and North-Africa as well.
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George Crumb

George Crumb (b. 1929) is one of the most frequently performed composers in today's musical world. Crumb is the winner of Grammy and Pulitzer Prizes, and continues to compose new scores that enrich the lives of all who come in contact with his profoundly humanistic art. Crumb's music often juxtaposes contrasting musical styles, ranging from music of the western art-music tradition, to hymns and folk music, to non-Western musics. Many of Crumb's works include programmatic, symbolic, mystical and theatrical elements, which are often reflected in his beautiful and meticulously notated scores.
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George Crumb (b. 1929) is one of the most frequently performed composers in today's musical world. Crumb is the winner of Grammy and Pulitzer Prizes, and continues to compose new scores that enrich the lives of all who come in contact with his profoundly humanistic art. Crumb's music often juxtaposes contrasting musical styles, ranging from music of the western art-music tradition, to hymns and folk music, to non-Western musics. Many of Crumb's works include programmatic, symbolic, mystical and theatrical elements, which are often reflected in his beautiful and meticulously notated scores.

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01.
Balinese Cerimonial Music: II. Gambangan
01:57
(Colin Mcphee) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
02.
Balinese Cerimonial Music: III. Taboeh Teloe
03:26
(Colin Mcphee) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
03.
Mikrokosmos, book IV: 109. From the Island of Bali
02:10
(Béla Bartók, Colin Mcphee) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
04.
Le Tour du Monde en Miniature : IX. La Flûte de bambou dans la forêt de Bandoeng (Java)
01:05
(Alexandre Tansman) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
05.
Le Tour du Monde en Miniature : X. Le Gamelan de Bali (Wayang-théâtre d'ombres)
03:11
(Alexandre Tansman ) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
06.
Anthology of Indonesian Classical Music, book 1: Art Song: Rambut
00:50
(Mochtar Embut) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
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Anthology of Indonesian Classical Music, book 1: Art Song: Cempaka Kuning
01:15
(Sjafi'i Embut) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
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Anthology of Indonesian Classical Music, book 1: Art Song: Srikandi
02:26
(Mochtar Embut) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
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Anthology of Indonesian Classical Music, book 1: Art Song: Angin Jahat
01:07
(Mochtar Embut) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
10.
Anthology of Indonesian Classical Music, book 1: Art Song: Kekasih
01:17
(Mochtar Embut) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
11.
Anthology of Indonesian Classical Music, book 1: Art Song: Kisah Mawar di Malam Hari
02:29
(Iskandar ) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
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Anthology of Indonesian Classical Music, book 1: Art Song: Setitik Embun
01:39
(Mochtar Embut) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
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Anthology of Indonesian Classical Music, book 1: Art Song: Senja di Pelabuhan Perahu
02:02
(Mochtar Embut) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
14.
Anthology of Indonesian Classical Music, book 1: Art Song: Sandiwara
01:33
(Mochtar Embut) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
15.
Images - book 2, L. 111: Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
05:47
(Claude Debussy) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
16.
Sonata for Solo Cello: II. Tema pastorale con variazioni
04:13
(George Crumb) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
17.
Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65: I. Dialogo
06:32
(Benjamin Britten) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
18.
Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65: II. Scherzo - pizzicato
02:17
(Benjamin Britten) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
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Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65: III. Elegia
06:54
(Benjamin Britten) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
20.
Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65: IV. Marcia
02:14
(Benjamin Britten) Jan van der Plas, Kris van der Plas
21.
Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65: V. Moto perpetuo
02:23
(Benjamin Britten) Kris van der Plas, Jan van der Plas
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