Sequenza 9.3 - MEmoires Vivantes (CD)

As part of the Cultural Olympiad, the vocal ensemble Sequenza 9.3 spent three years collecting traditional oral songs throughout Seine-Saint-Denis, a region home to 175 nationalities. Entrusted to contemporary composers, these songs were transformed into a new polyphonic repertoire. The album Mémoires vivantes brings together fifteen of these works: Corsican and Andalusian lullabies, a funeral lament, a Greek sailors' song, an Anatolian nursery rhyme, an Albanian song from the Ottoman era, an Indian melody, a song from China's Qing dynasty, Violeta Parra's hymn to life, and more. Shaped and refined over generations, these fragments of collective memory have crossed borders and centuries alike before finding new resonance, under the direction of Catherine Simonpietri, in the voices of Sequenza 9.3's twelve singers alongside the instrumental ensemble Opus 333.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Mòlìhua (Arr. for Ensemble By Manuel Peskine)
2. Andra Mou Pai (Arr. for Ensemble By Alexandros Markeas)
3. Les Cueilleuses de Lentisques (Arr. for Ensemble By Philippe Hersant)
4. Tomasi: Vocero I, Eju Filava la Mia Rocca
5. Ilgaz (Arr. for Ensemble By Coralie Fayolle)
6. Asaman (Arr. for Ensemble By Alexandros Markeas)
7. Terra Patria (Arr. for Ensemble By Alexandros Markeas)
8. Tomasi: Ninina
9. Nanna Di Palleca (Arr. for Ensemble By François Saint-Yves)
10. Kolonkini Radha (Arr. for Ensemble By Alexandros Markeas)
11. Nana (Arr. for Ensemble By François Saint-Yves)
12. Parra: Gracias a la Vida (Arr. for Ensemble By Manuel Peskine)
13. Sto 'Pa (Arr. for Ensemble By Alexandros Markeas)
14. O Ciucciarella (Arr. for Ensemble By François Saint-Yves)
15. Nami Ya Hanin (Arr. for Ensemble By Coralie Fayolle)