December 2025 is closing with three CD releases all of which are first recordings:
Wergo has now realesed a portrait CD Altazor, which includes first recordings of three important works, all performed by Ensemble Aventure with the baritone Guillermo Anzorena as the soloist in the first work and electronics by Thomas Hummel from the Experimentalstudio of the SWR.
The monodrama Altazor for baritone, eight soloists, and electronics is a commission by Festival D’Autumn a Paris in 2011 and IRCAM, is a setting taken from the epic poem by Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro.
Two further aspects of Hilda Paredes’s creative output can be listened to in the ensemble works on this album: Epitafio was written in response to the passing of her Mother in 2021 and Siphonophorae, whose compositional idea and formal structure spring from that of a jelly fish, and was inspired by a work of visual art.
https://www.schott-music.com/en/altazor-epitafio-siphonophorae-no784721.html