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Saariaho: Emilie Suite; Quatre Instants; Terra Memoria

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Composer
SAARIAHO, KAIJA
Artist
Vourc'H, Letonja
Format
CD
Label
Ondine
Released
Jan 13, 2015
Catalog #
ODE 1255-2
UPC
761195125526

About

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

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 I. Attente (Longing) 05:28
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Attente (Longing)
    Duration
    05:28
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Performer
    Karen Vourc'h
    Ensemble
    Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
    Conductor
    Marko Letonja
  2. 2 II. Douleur (Torment) 05:03
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Douleur (Torment)
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Performer
    Karen Vourc'h
    Ensemble
    Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
    Conductor
    Marko Letonja
  3. 3 III. Parfum de l'instant (Perfume of the instant) 03:40
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Parfum de l'instant (Perfume of the instant)
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Performer
    Karen Vourc'h
    Ensemble
    Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
    Conductor
    Marko Letonja
  4. 4 IV. Resonances (Echoes) 06:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Resonances (Echoes)
    Duration
    06:10
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Performer
    Karen Vourc'h
    Ensemble
    Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
    Conductor
    Marko Letonja
  5. 5 Terra Memoria (version for string orchestra) 17:47
    Track
    5
    Title
    Terra Memoria (version for string orchestra)
    Duration
    17:47
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Ensemble
    Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
    Conductor
    Marko Letonja
  6. 6 I. Pressentiments (Forebodings) 08:13
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Pressentiments (Forebodings)
    Duration
    08:13
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Performer
    Karen Vourc'h
    Ensemble
    Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
    Conductor
    Marko Letonja
  7. 7 II. Interlude I 04:08
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Interlude I
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Ensemble
    Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
    Conductor
    Marko Letonja
  8. 8 III. Principia 07:44
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Principia
    Duration
    07:44
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Performer
    Karen Vourc'h
    Ensemble
    Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
    Conductor
    Marko Letonja
  9. 9 IV. Interlude II 03:00
    Track
    9
    Title
    IV. Interlude II
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Ensemble
    Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
    Conductor
    Marko Letonja
  10. 10 V. Contre l'oubli (Against Oblivion) 09:42
    Track
    10
    Title
    V. Contre l'oubli (Against Oblivion)
    Duration
    09:42
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Performer
    Karen Vourc'h
    Ensemble
    Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
    Conductor
    Marko Letonja