Exile

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Release Date
January 24, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Andrzey Panufnik, Franz Schubert, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Eugene Ysaye
    • PERFORMER
      Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Thomas Kaufmann, Camerata Bern
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 24, 2025
    • UPC
      3701624511107
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1110
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Kugikly (arr. J. Keren for string ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

    2. I. Largo

      Composer: Alfred Schnittke

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

      Performer: Thomas Kaufmann, Vital Julian Frey

    3. II. Presto

      Composer: Alfred Schnittke

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

      Performer: Thomas Kaufmann, Vital Julian Frey

    4. III. Largo

      Composer: Alfred Schnittke

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

      Performer: Thomas Kaufmann, Vital Julian Frey

    5. Cucuşor cu pană sură (Cuckoo with Grey Feather)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

      Performer: Vlad Popescu

    6. I. Rubato

      Composer: Andrzej Panufnik

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

      Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja

    7. II. Adagio

      Composer: Andrzej Panufnik

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

      Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja

    8. III. Vivace

      Composer: Andrzej Panufnik

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

      Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja

    9. 5 Minuets and 6 Trios, D. 89: No. 3. Minuet and 2 Trios in D Minor (arr. P. Kopatchinskaja for string ensemble)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

    10. I. Allegro scherzando

      Composer: Ivan Wyschnegradsky

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

    11. II. Andante

      Composer: Ivan Wyschnegradsky

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

    12. III. Allegro risoluto

      Composer: Ivan Wyschnegradsky

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

    13. Exil, Op. 25

      Composer: Eugène Ysaÿe

      Ensemble: Camerata Bern

      Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja


This programme brings together composers who, for the most part, were compelled to flee their homeland. In 1920, Ivan Wyschnegradsky took refuge in Paris, where he wrote for a quarter-tone piano at a time when, in Russia, the slightest dissonance was considered a political provocation. Andrzej Panufnik left his native Poland in 1954. Alfred Schnittke settled in Hamburg in 1990, eight years before his death, having spent most of his life in the Soviet Union. Although Schubert never moved away from Vienna, the pain and solitude of his inner exile are palpable in his music. Finally, the Belgian violin virtuoso Eugene Ysaye emigrated on account of the First World War and it was in the United States, in 1917, that he wrote the melancholy musical poem recorded here, which he called Exil! Is exile nothing but pain and isolation, or also a source of inspiration which, with music, expresses what words cannot say, acting as the ultimate refuge? 'Let's listen to what they have to say', suggests Patricia Kopatchinskaja, herself 'uprooted for ever'. She is joined by cellist Thomas Kaufmann and her friends from Camerata Bern.