“Rend your clothes, you all, sprinkle your head with ashes, run through the streets and dance in madness”.
Rabbi Jakub Szulman in a letter, January 1942
The Canti consists of six songs, each representing an imaginary folder in the Holocaust victims directory, called after a segment of the German alphabet, and assigned to one out of six Angels of Death: Gabriel, Mashhit, Kapziel, Azrael, Abaddon, and Michael. The epilogue, Todesfuge, inspired by the eponymous poem by Paul Celan, combines mysteriously compelling imagery with rhythmic variations and structural patterns that are both elusive and pronounced, thus masterfully depicting horror and death in a concentration camp.
For each song Maxim Shalygin developed a special technique. He uses the uncommon BACH.Bow in some parts and Maya Fridman‘s beautiful voice in the epilogue. In her performance of Canti d’inizio e fine, Fridman focuses her attention on the experience of time and sounds as they slowly undergo sublime transformations.
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“Canti d’inizio e fine”; official Album Release:
Oosterkerk, Amsterdam
Friday 21st June | 20:00
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