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These critically acclaimed performances from Sao Paulo are both idiomatic and expertly played.

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1. Ambient Chaconne I 10:35
2. Ambient Chaconne II 08:45
3. Ambient Chaconne III 11:29
4. Ambient Chaconne IV 11:20
5. Deo I 09:27
6. Deo II 13:02
7. Deo III 07:02

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1. Lasse Thoresen – Invocation of Pristine Light Op. 52, No. 1 (2014)
2. Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Scape (2011)
3. Bent Sorensen – I: Mignon – Und die Sonne geht Unter
4. Bent Sorensen – III: Nachtlicher Fluss
5. Bent Sorensen – VII: Mitternacht mit Mignon
6. Kaija Saariaho – Prelude (2007)
7. Raminta Serksnyte – Fantasia (1997)
8. Peteris Vasks – Music for a Summer Evening (2009)
9. Lasse Thoresen – Invocation of Rising Air, Op. 52, No. 2 (2014)

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mode 310/11 (2-LPs)

Harawi is a cycle of twelve songs scored for soprano and piano composed in 1945. Harawi (known to Spanish speakers as yaraví) designates a song about a fated love that ends in the death of both lovers. Messiaen remarked that “it is the story of Tristan and Isolde.”

The surrealistic text of Harawi is Messiaen’s own. Using the musical structures Messiaen had created for Harawi, he built massive phrases in these songs, expanding space and time, creating extreme tenderness, vastness, clarity and abysses.

In Harawi both lovers are not only human, but beings, which transform again and again. Destruction, pain, death, creation, joy, dance and love are not final — they are all ever changing particles of our interwoven cosmic existence.

• Includes 12-page book with complete lyrics plus extensive text on Harawi by Siglind Bruhn, including copious illustrations and musical examples

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