John Zorn Resource

Track Listing: 

1. Jumalattaret  25:28
2. Split The Lark  16:27
3. Nazdar, Poupon, Nazdar  2:37

Personnel 

Barbara Hannigan - Voice
Stephen Gosling - Piano
 
Production: 

All music composed by John Zorn 
Produced by John Zorn 
Associate Producer - Kazunori Sugiyama 
All music recorded in real time with no overdubbing
Jumalattaret recorded live in concert, October 30, 2023 at the Teatro Storchi, Modena, Italy during Zorn@70, a project by AngelicA co-produced by Fondazione Teatro di Modena - Festival l'Altro Suono
Split The Lark and Nazdar, Poupon, Nazdar  recorded live in concert, November 16, 2023, at Miller Theatre, Columbia University, NYC
Recording teams  Marc Urselli, Massimo Carli, John Dyer, Trevor Schlam
Mixing and mastering by Scott Hull 
Portrait engraving of Shakespeare by John Everett Millais
Design by Chippy (Heung Heung Chin) 
Special thanks to Massimo Simonini, Aldo Sisillo, José Pinto, Bob Drake, Scott Hull, Barbara Hannigan, Stephen Gosling, Melissa Smey, Taylor Riccio

Images:
front cover booklet and Jumalattaret by Rolando Paolo Guerzoni at Teatro Storchi, Modena, Italy
inside front cover booklet bows by Petra Cvelbar for Jazz in August, Lisbon, Portugal
Jumalattaret rehearsa screenshots from the film Zorn III by Mathieu Amalric
digi cover, Split The Lark and Nazdar, Poupon, Nazdar by Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre at COlumbia University, NYC
daguerrotype of Emily Dickinson circa 1847 taken at Mount Holyoke
Back cover booklet artwork by Aubrey Beardsley

TZADIK Blurb 

A remarkable meeting of two musical forces of nature finally available on recording! 

Barbara Hannigan is one of the most fearless and passionate performers in the classical world, and here she sings a challenging program of Zorn compositions with the virtuoso pianist Stephen Gosling. Featured here is the long-awaited recording of Jumalattaret, a song cycle in praise of line Finnish Goddesses out of Sami Shamanism, and Split the Lark, Zorn’s tribute to the magical American poet Emily Dickinson. Using a variety of musical techniques and genres, the music moves from lyrical folk-like simplicity to more complex atonal and textural pyrotechnics. Included as a bonus is a rare piece of juvenilia: the charming surrealistic song Nazdar, Poupon, Nazdar. Composed circa 1971, when Zorn was about 17 years old, it is a very early example of Zorn’s multi layered genre smashing. In its brief two-minute duration it contains traditional, proportional and graphic notation, and touches upon tonality, atonality, Messiaen birdsong, jazz, cartoon music, lyricism, French recitativo, whispering, vocalise and vocal noises.

Series:  Archival Series 

By Catalogue Number:  TZ9311 

Release Date: August 16, 2024