Browse by Artist: CZERNOWIN, CHAYA

Artist:	CZERNOWIN, CHAYA
Title:	Afatsim (Chamber Music 1988-96)
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 077CD

"Czernowin's sound occupies a unique world. Often many instruments are used to become one 'composite' instrument. Time is slowed down, so that the slow flow of sound enables one to perceive the smallest details of a texture or a sound. The resulting music can feel fluid, dense or agitated, at times echoing that of Xenakis and Ferneyhough." Performed by Arditti Quartet, Harvey Sollberge, Mayumi Miyata (Japanese mouth organ), John Fonville (flute), etc.

Artist:	CZERNOWIN, CHAYA
Title:	Pnima...ins Innere
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 169DVD

"Pnima...ins Innere is more than an opera or music theater piece about the Holocaust. It is a piece that deals with the way we react to a traumatic experience. Pnima is an attempt to create a different kind of music theater. No traditional libretto, no plot, only mental situations. No singers who are actors, it is a non-verbal, non-narrative experience. On the stage are two actors who do not sing or speak, on the sides of the stage are the vocal and instrumental soloists. It is based on a novel by an Israeli author David Grossmann, See Under: Love. The book deals with the Holocaust from the point of view of the second generation to the children of the survivors, who cannot touch this horrible experience but are forced to encounter its constant but hidden presence. The opera is a journey into the psychology of a boy encountering his grandfather who survived the Holocaust, but is crazy, eccentric, and is withdrawn in the traumatic experience, unable to talk or to live anything else." Region 0, 24-bit PCM Stereo; NTSC; Aspect ratio: Standard 4:3; 1 hr 32min; Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish. Special feature: 27-minute interview with the composer.

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