NÓRA II.rész

Program Messiaen: Vocalise-Étude Messiaen: Trois Mélodies Schönthal: Wildunger Liederzyklus – No. 3, Arme Erde R. Strauss: Acht Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter” von Hermann von Gilm, Op. 10 Bushra El-Turk: composition commissioned by ECHO – world premiere

One thing we know for certain about the 21st century is that it will be when the survivors of the Holocaust take their last breath. Every single one of them. Slowly but surely, they are leaving us to our own devices. “Do we want to forget what happened, as if it were a bad dream, or do we want to accept the events as human civilization’s greatest trauma?” the author Péter Esterházy once asked.

It has been a long time since we thought of Cécile McLorin Salvant as merely the promising winner of the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Her expressive voice capable of conveying profound emotions and refined sentiments, her virtuoso improvisation, and her brave, experimental combinations of styles have now come to represent a point of reference to a new generation.