Infos
Strasbourg
Église Saint-Paul
Part of the Musica Festival
Cast
Directeur musical Alphonse Cemin
Programme
Ripple
Ted Hearne
Alto Joachim Angster Les Petits Chanteurs de Strasbourg - Maîtrise de l'Opéra national du Rhin
Its Motion Keeps
Caroline Shaw
Passion de la petite fille aux allumettes
David Lang
Soprano, grelots Lauranne Oliva Mezzo-soprano, crotales Elsa Roux Chamoux Ténor, glockenspiel Damian Arnold Baryton, grosse caisse, cloches tubulaires Oleg Volkov
Presentation
Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Match Girl is a squalid tale of a barefoot child wandering the snow-covered streets of Copenhagen. Numb with cold, she warms herself by burning her last matches. Each tiny flame offers a briefly comforting vision. David Lang lends this tale a mystical dimension by overlaying it with excerpts from the text of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. This poignant secular passion is accompanied by evocative works for a children’s choir by two contemporary American composers.
David Lang, The Little Match Girl Passion, for four solo voices with percussion (2007)
Caroline Shaw, Its Motion Keeps, for children’s choir and alto solo (2013)
Ted Hearne, Ripple, for children’s choir (2012)
With the singers of La Maîtrise (the OnR youth chorus) and the OnR Opéra Studio
Musical direction by Alphonse Cemin
