Zbigniew Preisner - Diaries of Hope (2013): 5. Epitaphium. Performed by the Britten Sinfonia Strings & Crouch End Festival Chorus, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner. With Lisa Gerrard (alto). Record label: Preisner Productions.
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From the liner notes:
On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner conducted the Britten Sinfonia Strings and Crouch End Festival Chorus in the UK premiere of Diaries of Hope, a five-movement work that featured the acclaimed vocalist and fellow film composer Lisa Gerrard. The work was inspired by the diaries of Polish children who fell victim to the Holocaust, and the evening’s program opened with a distant discussion on the subject with the acclaimed Polish film director Krzysztof Kieslowski. The pair were conversing about the diaries after a performance in Israel, and the opening paragraph details the bond that existed between the men as well as their desire to compose a piece of music on the subject, which seemed like the perfect way to introduce Zbigniew Preisner’s most recent composition. The pair had worked together most famously on Dekolog, The Double Life of Vernonika and the Three Colors trilogy in creating some of the most graceful soundtrack material of their respective careers; it was incredible the way that each score, especially for Three Colors Blue, became a meaningful component to the plot as its central character dissected the music instrument by instrument. It amplified Preisner’s delicate approach to song structure by allowing each movement to tell its own tale within the framework of an extended piece, which was spectacularly intense in the context of the story.
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