EXILES #3

Exile is the music that finds no homeland, or invents a new one. The third installment of this committed series, the concert under the inspired direction of George Jackson brings together the Choir and the Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie around pages that are alternately heartbreaking and luminous.

We encounter shattered destinies: Andrzej Panufnik dedicates his Katyń Epitaph to the victims of the 1940 massacre; Arnold Schoenberg writes Friede auf Erden as an impossible pacifist wish. Flutist Ana de la Vega brings to life Elżbieta Sikora's Flute Concerto – a co-commissioned creation, where the virtuoso dialogues with an orchestra of contemporary colors. Julius Eastman celebrates Joan of Arc in a minimalist trance, while Franz Schreker, persecuted by the Nazi regime, lets his Schwanengesang, an elegiac swan song, be heard. Isang Yun, a Korean abducted in 1967 by the secret services of the South Korean dictatorship, unfolds his Tapis for strings; Malek Jandali, a Syrian in exile, proclaims Freedom; Kareem Roustom, of Palestinian origin, makes the traditional Dabke dance. An evening that is serious, feverish, and necessary.

Program

Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991)
Katyń Epitaph

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Friede auf Erden opus 13

Elżbieta Sikora (*1943)
Flute Concerto
French premiere
Co-commissioned by Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, National Philharmonic Society of Lithuania, National Centre of Culture of Poland

Julius Eastman (1940–1990)
The Holy Presence of Joan D’Arc

Isang Yun (1917–1995)
Tapis for strings

Malek Jandali (*1972)
Freedom

Franz Schreker (1878–1934)
Schwanengesang opus 11

Kareem Roustom (*1971)
Dabke

Duration: ±1h20 without intermission

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