‘Ogloudoglou’: New Recording of Avant-Garde Vocal Music by Soprano Sara Stowe

Soprano Sara Stowe’s debut recording for Métier – Divine Art Recordings Group, titled ‘Ogloudoglou: Vocal Masterpieces of the Experimental Generation 1960-90’, is a tour de force in contemporary vocal performance. Her disc displays both the trained virtuosity of a western classically-trained singer and a vocal flexibility and curiosity in the vocal sounds of traditional song and of improvisation which have inspired the composers on this disc.  

The excitingly broad spectrum of vocal material in`Ogloudoglou’ ranges from the most celebrated experimental composers of the 1960s: John Cage, Luciano Berio, Luigi Nono and Morton Feldman, to the music-drama of Mauricio Kagel and the pentatonic textless improvisations of Giacinto Scelsi, influenced by his time spent in India and Nepal.  

After early studies as harpsichord scholar at the Royal College of Music and vocal studies in Milan, Sara Stowe has followed joint careers as singer of early and new music. On this disc she accompanies herself on percussion, mandolin and harpsichord.

Album Details

Recorded at the Arc Centre, Old Harlow, autumn 2018
Sound Engineer: John Fitzpatrick
Editor: Mike Holloway
Producer: Matthew Spring

The album will be available on CD and in digital formats on Metier MSV 28593

Works

• Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988):
  Canto del Capricorno No. 8
  Taiagaru No. 4
  Ogloudoglou (voice and percussion)
  CKCKC (voice and mandolin)
• John Cage (1912-1992):
  Sonnekus
• Sylvano Bussotti (b.1931):
  Lachrimae per ogni voce
• Luciano Berio (1925-2003):
  Sequenza III
• Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008):
  Recitativerie for Singing Harpsichordist
• Luigi Nono (1924-1990):
  La Fabbrica Illuminata
• Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996)
  Così parlò Baldassare
• Morton Feldman (1926-1987):
  Only

Sara Stowe’s recording with Ensemble Sirinu `The Man Hurdy-gurdy and Me’- the works for early and unusual insruments by Howard Skempton, is to be released by Métier next year.