Label: harmonia mundi Catalog: 801937/38 Format: SACD HYBRID
Daniel Belcher, tenor (Jaufre Rudel); Ekaterina Lekhina, soprano (Clemence); Marie Ange Todorovitch, mezzo-soprano (Le Pelerin); with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Kent Nagano
Kaija Saariaho: L'Amour de loin
2011 Grammy Winner - Best Opera Recording 2010 Gramophone Awards Shortlist: Opera
Composed to a libretto by Amin Maalouf and premiered at Salzburg in 2000 in a production by Peter Sellars, L'Amour de loin was Kaija Saariaho's first opera.
This reinterpretation of the medieval narrative of the life of the troubadour Jaufre Rudel tackles a number of highly topical themes: love from afar, the virtuality of ideal love, and relations between East and West.
