Defrise, Sarah
Sings For Cathy
'A CAPELLA ALBUM, A TRIBUTE TO CATHY BERBERIAN' - Sarah Defrise dedicates her first new music album to the American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian. The disk features exclusively a capella pieces which were written for Cathy by some of the most prominent composers of her time. Berio's 'Sequenza III', Cage's 'Aria' and Cathy's own 'Stripsody' have become new music 'hits', but 'Sings For Cathy' also presents lesser known repertoire such as Henri Pousseur's 'Phonème Pour Cathy', Bussoti's fragment from 'Passion Selon Sade And Entretien', a piece for electronic tape composed by Sarah Defrise as a tribute to Berberian. Sarah took an active part in the editing process of the disk in order to create a coherent sound object, displaying the endless possibilities of the human voice.