We continue to explore the destinies of composers marked by exile, forced to reinvent their art far from their homeland.
Among them, parallel trajectories echo each other with poignant force. Korngold and Schoenberg, two major figures in Viennese music, had to flee Nazism. The former found refuge in Hollywood, where he revolutionized film music; the latter rebuilt his musical language in the United States. Their works bear the scars of this uprooting, between nostalgia and audacity. Spanish exiles Pablo Casals and Roberto Gerhard embody resistance through music. Casals, an opponent of Franco, transformed El cant dels ocells into a hymn of freedom. Gerhard, a disciple of Schoenberg, blended avant-garde and Catalan folklore in a unique style shaped by his exile in England. Arvo Pärt, Olga Podgaiskaya and Samir Odeh-Tamimi extend this reflection on wandering and creation.
Pärt, forced to leave Soviet Estonia, found refuge in timeless music. Podgaiskaya and Odeh-Tamimi, heirs to these paths, in turn question borders and shifting identities. An evening in which the echoes of a torn twentieth century and the persistence of a beauty born of absence resonate. A world concert in which every note echoes a lost land, but also the hope of a new beginning.
Running time: ±1h20 without intermission
Price: from 18? to 28?
Among them, parallel trajectories echo each other with poignant force. Korngold and Schoenberg, two major figures in Viennese music, had to flee Nazism. The former found refuge in Hollywood, where he revolutionized film music; the latter rebuilt his musical language in the United States. Their works bear the scars of this uprooting, between nostalgia and audacity. Spanish exiles Pablo Casals and Roberto Gerhard embody resistance through music. Casals, an opponent of Franco, transformed El cant dels ocells into a hymn of freedom. Gerhard, a disciple of Schoenberg, blended avant-garde and Catalan folklore in a unique style shaped by his exile in England. Arvo Pärt, Olga Podgaiskaya and Samir Odeh-Tamimi extend this reflection on wandering and creation.
Pärt, forced to leave Soviet Estonia, found refuge in timeless music. Podgaiskaya and Odeh-Tamimi, heirs to these paths, in turn question borders and shifting identities. An evening in which the echoes of a torn twentieth century and the persistence of a beauty born of absence resonate. A world concert in which every note echoes a lost land, but also the hope of a new beginning.
Running time: ±1h20 without intermission
Price: from 18? to 28?
