it was accompanied on piano by his wife israeli pianist tom petty in today's guest on arts and culture. and with that welcome to the program twilight people is the new album by andrea saul and tom petty in a collection of songs arranged for countertenor and piano a very introspective atmospheric listening experience so let's learn just a little bit more. tanner voice is haunting. elegant piano work on the new album twilight people.

on the title track are from a poem by seamus. in 1005. 2 decades later by the english composer. ringback latest collaboration explores the space between. and modern classical. and it's an enormous pleasure to have time out have been here with me in the studio welcome thank you for coming in twice. a labor of love i'm assuming obviously between the 2 here and it's it's interesting because it's such

a very diverse body of songs. from greensleeves to the 20th century composers that you've brought on there john cage. but you've brought it together in such a highly personal narrative can you tell us what is the red thread for you there well. what's at the base of this album is our shared passion for folk songs because i believe i speak for both of us we really like the simplicity of the folk song and the way that it tells a story. through the music and i weave we have been playing folk songs for as long as we've been playing together always putting them as part of our classical concert programs and in the past it's always been my very simple basic harmonic accompany meant to the melody to the existing melody which is the folk melody and when we thought to put an album together to record it i felt embarrassed to put my own arrangements they're not so interesting so i set up to look for existing

arrangements of great composers and this way i found the arrangements from benjamin britten and vol williams and aaron copeland and what was interesting for me is to weave them together in a way that shows the similarities rather than the differences and we also added 2 new songs by young composers and these songs also have elements of the same elements of melancholy and snow lisicki and dissonance as well and i will get to those songs in just a 2nd i want to come to you andrea because of the counter-tenor obviously you're specialized in early music in baroque period music this was really new terrain for you how challenging was that. i have a great love for these english folk songs some of them featured on the album and many more of these songs i studied them with my singing teacher when i studied in basel i know many different types of arrangements by john by for

della i mean everybody who sings folk music needs to arrange these songs by themselves and my stinging teacher said the art is to make it not sound like an art and that's the challenge with these songs that you as a classic music singer you present them in the most direct and honest way without resorting to classic music money or is what is it do you think i mean the countertenor community is relatively small it's growing as as as you've told me by . for instance because patti back in the nellie phase used to be the real rock stars what is it about the countertenor just briefly voice that you think is so captivating for people i believe it's an instant confusion when you hear a count to 10 and you have never heard a man sing that high before because in society these days the roads are pretty clearly a sign men speak and talk lower than women do so a man singing high. crosses this barrier and confuses the audience and then the

brain tries to make sense of it but you cannot make much sense of it so you just need to listen to the music like you've bookended this album very interestingly with these young composers are you frankel at the beginning and you said that i actually think his piece the rest was a highlight of making this album for you let's see if we can just if we can pull that music in and have a have a listen to it. are. significant for. the fact that it has the same kind of simplicity as the folk songs have. and then it talks to also has the melancholy in the year earning that you often find in folk songs on

the other hand it relates to. more recent history so it's based on a text by play more levy and i think describes the feeling of somebody who was exported from their home country to their concentration camps and. what i like very much is the fact the fact that i franco israeli living in boston i am israeli living in germany and the other young composer on the album is joseph cao address he's from egypt living in london really a virtue also on the overt which and we can possibly pull some some of that in because that is the last piece of the other book and let's see if we can listen to joseph how about. you. know straighten. and we have this side. of building bridges between. diverse cultures and religions is

certainly a big in your work and what is your experience with all of these collaboration so many collaboration that you've done of how music. can be a unifying force i think for musicians it's so hard to understand that the rest of the world can get along really well but there's so many conflicts because i traveled in the last 30 years i've traveled all over the world from asia australia south america all over europe united states canada everywhere and i meet musicians all over the world and we speak a common language so being on stage with musicians from different different cultures different countries is something soul easy for us and it's so self explaining that the moment we walk on stage all our differences don't matter and we've just there's harmony music exists through harmony so if there's no harmony in between the musicians on stage there can't be harmony in the music they they want to communicate and that's the sensational thing for me is that for me it's

a daily thing and i have experienced that so many times and i wish that the audience can experience the same through our music well i'm sure they will like people you'll be on tour with the album in the coming months tomorrow pending and thank you so much for bringing us this music and for coming into the studio here today and all of us for the holidays thank you. all from me if ariel world of the soul to the very precise and composed worlds of cancun not the photographer from frankfurt creates miniature scenarios that almost always take some kind of a jab at our societal conventions making the tragic thing comical and absurd somehow optimistic. a street that leads to an abyss. an ordinary cafe. houses that could be in any german suburb nothing special but what's this the new

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