Kaija Saariaho - L'amour de loin
EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | Covers + booklet | 65:09 + 56:18 | 564 MB
21st Century Classical - Contemporary Opera | 2009 | Harmonia Mundi
EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | Covers + booklet | 65:09 + 56:18 | 564 MB
21st Century Classical - Contemporary Opera | 2009 | Harmonia Mundi
Ekaterina Lekhina, soprano: Clémence
Daniel Belcher, tenor: Jaufré Rudel
Marie-Ange Todorovitch, mezzo-soprano: Le Pèlerin
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin - Kent Nagano, conductor
TRACKS
Disc 1
01. Act 1. (Traversée) [05:41]
02. Act 1. Tableau 1. J'ai appris à parler du bonheur [06:49]
03. Act 1. Tableau 2. Peut-être bien qu'elle n'existe pas [05:33]
04. Act 1. Tableau 2. Qu'as-tu fait de moi, pèlerin? [02:24]
05. Act 2. Tableau 1 [Instrumental] [03:04]
06. Act 2. Tableau 1. Pèlerin, dites-moi! [06:11]
07. Act 2. Tableau 1. Un homme pense à vous [02:25]
08. Act 2. Tableau 2. Rien ne vous oblige à l'aimer [07:01]
09. Act 2. Tableau 2. Ja mais d'amor [04:40]
10. Act 3. Tableau 1. [Instrumental] [01:05]
11. Act 3. Tableau 1. Pèlerin, Pèlerin, dis-moi [03:47]
12. Act 3. Tableau 1. Jaufré, elle sait [04:13]
13. Act 3. Tableau 1. Peut-être ferais-je mieux de m'en aller [04:28]
14. Act 3. Tableau 2. Ben tenc lo Seignor per verai [04:40]
15. Act 3. Tableau 2. Non, par Notre Seigneur [03:02]
Disc 2
01. Act 4. Tableau 1. [Instrumental] [05:27]
02. Act 4. Tableau 1. Me croiras-tu, Pèlerin [04:13]
03. Act 4. Tableau 2. [Instrumental] [02:08]
04. Act 4. Tableau 2. Je l'ai vue, Pèlerin [03:23]
05. Act 4. Tableau 2. Calme-toi, Jaufré [01:26]
06. Act 4. Tableau 3. Je devrais être l'homme le plus heureux du monde [02:13]
07. Act 4. Tableau 3. Ces choses se savent, oui [04:03]
08. Act 5. Tableau 1. Comtesse, regardez [02:58]
09. Act 5. Tableau 1. Noble dame, je vous apporte une nouvelle [02:31]
10. Act 5. Tableau 2. C'est vous, c'est vous [04:18]
11. Act 5. Tableau 2. J'aurais tant voulu [02:57]
12. Act 5. Tableau 2. Seigneur, si je pouvais rester ainsi [04:13]
13. Act 5. Tableau 3. J'espère encore, mon Dieu [03:19]
14. Act 5. Tableau 3. J'avais cru en toi [06:59]
15. Act 5. Tableau 4. Si tu t'appelles Amour [06:00]
"L’amour de loin" (Love from Afar) is the first opera by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho from a five act French libretto by Amin Maalouf. The opera was given its world premiere performance on 15 August 2000 at the Salzburg Festival.
Saariaho, living in Paris since 1982, had become familiar in 1993 with "La vida breve" by one of the first great troubadours of the 12th century, Jaufré Rudel. Prior to that she had seen a Peter Sellars’ staging of Messiaen’s opera, "Saint-François d'Assise" at the 1992 Salzburg Festival, but did not think that she was capable of writing one. However, the production convinced her of the possibility of transforming the poem into an opera, given Sellars’ sensibility and talents: “If that is an opera, then I can write one" she is quoted as saying.
The idea for an opera on this subject was to evolve over the following seven or eight years. After she was so taken by seeing the original manuscripts of the story of Jaufré (the love-struck young poet who wrote to a faraway lover in Tripoli, Lebanon), she set his poem to music as Lonh in 1996, a score for soprano and electronic instruments.
The sensibilities and backgrounds of both Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese-French author and journalist also living in Paris, and Saariaho – both voluntary exiles - brought them together to collaborate to turn "a seemingly simple story into a complex story very simply told".
"L’Amour de loin" is based on "La vida breve", by the great twelfth-century troubador, Jaufré Rudel, Prince of Blaye. His glowing passion for a woman from the East of whom he has only heard is the central theme of the libretto.
Tired of the superficiality of life enjoyed by young men of his rank, Jaufré dreams of an idealised and distant love. Contrary to his expectations, a Pilgrim arrived from the Christian Kingdom of Outre-Mer, claims that he knows of such a woman – Clémence, Countess of Tripoli. Jaufré becomes obsessed with her and decides to travel to meet her. Meanwhile, Clémence has heard of the devotion of this Prince from a faraway land. Initially suspicious, she soon is haunted by dreams of her distant lover. However Jaufré’s voyage is hard and by the time he arrives in Tripoli, he is gravely ill. The lovers meet and declare their passion just before Jaufré dies.
FULL SYNOPSIS
12th century, in Aquitaine, Tripolo and at sea
Act 1
Jaufré Rudel, Prince of Blaye, has become weary of the pleasures of life led by the young people of his rank. He longs for a different love, faraway, a love which he has resigned himself never to be realised. His former companions, as a choir, reproach him with this change and laugh at him. They tell him that the woman he sings about does not exist. But a pilgrim, arrived from overseas, asserts that such a woman does indeed exist and that he has met her. From then on, Jaufré will think only of her.
Act II
Having returned to the Orient the Pilgrim meets the countess of Tripoli and confesses that in the Occident, a prince-troubadour extols her in his songs, calling her his “love from afar”. Offended at first, the lady begins to dream of this strange and faraway lover, but she also asks herself if she deserves such devotion.
Act III
First Scene – Back in Blaye, the Pilgrim meets Jaufré and avows to him that the lady now knows that he sings about her. This decides the troubadour to go to meet her.
Second Scene – Clémence, for her part, seems to prefer that their relationship remains distant. She does not want to live waiting, she does not want to suffer.
Act IV
Gone to sea, Jaufré is impatient to meet his “love from afar”, but at the same time he dreads this meeting. He regrets having left on impulse, and his anguish is so strong that he falls ill, more and more ill as he approaches Tripoli. He arrives there dying…
Act V
When the ships berths, the Pilgrim hurries to inform the countess that Jaufré has arrived but that he is close to death and asks to see her. The troubadour is brought to the citadel of Tripoli unconscious, carried on a stretcher. In the presence of the woman of whom he has sung, he gradually recovers his senses. The two “Lovers from afar” then meet and the approaching tragedy compels them to act in haste. They confess their passion, hold and promise to love each other … When Jaufré dies in her arms, Clémence rebels against Heaven, and then, considering herself responsible for the tragedy, she decides to enter a convent. The last scene shows her in prayer, but her words are ambiguous and it is not clear to whom she is praying on her knees: her faraway God or her “Love from afar”.
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