Cleopatra’s Songs
Double Battery (World Premiere)*
Violin Concerto

* - This is a concert recording of a performance of the Festival Musica Electronica Nova at the National Forum of Music, Wrocław.

“Give me some music!” These words from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, which open Cleopatra’s Songs, seem particularly well chosen to characterize Agata Zubel’s relationship to music. Music: a vital need, a thirst, but also something that you give. This portrait album with three major works, performed by leading ensembles, including the Klangforum Wien and Ensemble intercontemporain, follows her receipt of the Erste Bank Kompositionspreis in 2018.

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Recordings: Wien Modern, Konzerthaus Wien/Austria, 21 November 2018 (Tr. 1); National Forum of Music, Wrocław/Poland, 21 May 2016 (Tr. 2); New Music Festival, Katowice/Poland, 18 December 2014. Katarzyna Duda plays an Italian violin from the 19th century.