Saariaho: Emilie Suite; Quatre Instants; Terra Memoria

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Label
Ondine
Release Date
January 13, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SAARIAHO, KAIJA
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Vourc'H, Letonja
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 13, 2015
    • UPC
      761195125526
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ODE 1255-2
    • LABEL
      Ondine
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Attente (Longing)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

      Performer: Karen Vourc'h

      Conductor: Marko Letonja

    2. II. Douleur (Torment)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

      Performer: Karen Vourc'h

      Conductor: Marko Letonja

    3. III. Parfum de l'instant (Perfume of the instant)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

      Performer: Karen Vourc'h

      Conductor: Marko Letonja

    4. IV. Resonances (Echoes)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

      Performer: Karen Vourc'h

      Conductor: Marko Letonja

    5. Terra Memoria (version for string orchestra)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

      Conductor: Marko Letonja

    6. I. Pressentiments (Forebodings)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

      Performer: Karen Vourc'h

      Conductor: Marko Letonja

    7. II. Interlude I

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

      Conductor: Marko Letonja

    8. III. Principia

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

      Performer: Karen Vourc'h

      Conductor: Marko Letonja

    9. IV. Interlude II

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

      Conductor: Marko Letonja

    10. V. Contre l'oubli (Against Oblivion)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

      Performer: Karen Vourc'h

      Conductor: Marko Letonja


Helsinki–born Parisian Kaija Saariaho’s music sounds like little else, its kaleidoscopic magic evoking Debussy refracted into the twenty-first century. This album includes the ghostly Terra memoria for string orchestra, expanded from a chamber original for the Emerson String Quartet. The beautifully scored vocal suite from Emilie, a 2011 one-woman opera about pioneering eighteenth-century scientist Emilie du Châtelet, will appeal to those beguiled by Saariaho’s dazzling first opera, L’Amour de loin (the works share a librettist, too, French-Lebanese poet Amin Maalouf). One can’t imagine the high-flying vocal role’s originator, Finnish diva Karita Mattila, being much better than French soprano Karen Vourc’h is here, nor in the shimmering song cycle Quatre Instants, also written for Mattila.

– Bradley Bambarger, Listen Magazine