Long Yu & Shanghai Symphony Orchestra / Aaron Zigman - Émigré [2CD]

Decca

£19.57

Format: 2 x CD
Catalogue No.: 4865590
Barcode: 28948655908
Release Date: 21 Jun 2024
Genre: Classical

Émigré is a collaboration between the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, Long Yu and Deutsche Grammophon. The oratorio was carefully crafted over five years and has a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Campbell, with additional lyrics by Brock Walsh.
Inspired by true events, Émigré deals with a little-known chapter of the Second World War: the welcome given by the people of Shanghai to Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the 1930s. At its core, Émigré is a love story that is a parable for the world. The turmoil that tears the couples apart in the story is a reflection of how the world often tears itself apart.

TRACKLIST:
Prologue
Shanghai
Look Ahead
Dreaming Must Wait
This House We Share
My City
Recitative
No Word From Home
In A Woman’s Hands
Yu Garden
In a Perfect World
One Magical Night
Our People
Ent’acte
Light a Flame
The Song Home
You Cannot Deny My Love
And Another Day
Forever
Once Upon a Night
Where Is My Father?
The Yeshiva in the Ghetto
Nowhere to Go
Through a Window