Victor Alexander's video: Klaus Ib J rgensen - Moon-Pain 2003-2008

Paul Hillier, conductor | klettWood | Iris Oja, mezzo soprano | Remix Ensemble Klaus Ib Jørgensen (b. 1967) trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen in composition (Niels Rosing-Schow) and music theory. Seen as his most important work to date, the substantial song cycle Moon-pain for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble sets the moon-themed poems of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) to music which responds to the texts in a highly personal and multi-layered language. The treatments range from the Sprechstimme elements in ‘In Silence and Moon’ and elsewhere, through colourful fragmentation of the words or their employment almost as pure sound, and a consistently restless atmosphere of complex melodic shapes and an uncompromising atonality. Catalogue Number: 8.226505 Dacapo, 2009 http://www.dacapo-records.dk