James Dillon: Philomela / Jurjen Hempel, Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Remix Ensemble

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Label
Aeon
Release Date
November 10, 2009
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DILLON, JAMES
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Remix Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Hempel, Peintre, Celtil, Komsi, Barriga, Natucki, Harrison
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Overture

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    2. Act I Scene 1: A Strange Suspended Atmosphere

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Performer: Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    3. Act I Scene 2: The Loom …

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Performer: Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    4. Act II Scene 1: Ones Upon a Time

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Performer: Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    5. Act II Scene 2: Pas de deux

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Performer: Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    6. Shoreline

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    7. Act III Scene 1: Forestlight …

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Performer: Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    8. Act III Scene 2: Pas de deux

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Performer: Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    9. Act III Scene 3: The Violation

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Performer: Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    10. Act IV: The Voice of the Loom …

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Performer: Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    11. Act V Scene 1: The Sacrifice of ltys of Metamorphosis

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Performer: Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

    12. Act V Scene 2

      Composer: James Dillon

      Ensemble: Remix Ensemble

      Performer: Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre

      Conductor: Jurjen Hempel


Philomela, by British composer James Dillon, inspired by Ovid and Sophocles, is his first scenic work. Whether opera or musical theatre, his score gives us an original and intense reading of the Princess of Athens' tragedy. Philomela is a visionary work. While being within the history of music, it invents its forms, its time, its own aesthetic sphere. It is probably for that reason that James Dillon qualifies it: music/théâtre (note the first term in English, the second in French, that authenticates the paternity of this history) so that it does not belong to the history of opera (too long) neither to modern musical theatre (too short). James Dillon imagines a space between Baroque and Noh theatre, a space we can perceive, we can seize immediately, as we contemplate this production. The writing in itself is a kind of metaphor of the myth! It's a cut tongue. For this recording, the best interpreters of our times have been selected. This is one of the major contemporary lyrical successes of the last decade, both innovating and thoroughly gripping.