Kaija Saariaho - Quatre instants | Sydney Chamber Opera

Emily Edmonds, mezzo soprano
Jack Symonds, piano
Text by Amin Maalouf
These 'four moments' are passionate snapshots in a torrid romantic relationship: longing, desire, pain, consummation. The fourth song is an extended reminiscence which astonishingly mingles all of these states of mind, as if from a great distance in time. This vast ocean of sound for just two performers is energised by torrential, glittering piano writing making the instrument into a huge resonating chamber to contain dramatic vocal lines of pulverising eroticism. A tour de force by one of the world's great living composers, Saariaho has created a post-Spectral masterpiece vast in expression and imagination.
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