Luna Pearl Woolf
Orpheus on Sappho's Shore (premiere)
Impromptu (2001)
Johannes Brahms, Sextette en sol majeur, opus 36 (1864)

Soloists:
Julieanne Klein, soprano
Michiel Schrey, tenor

Véronique Lacroix, conductor | ECM+, 8 musicians

Imagination meets reality: still singing, the mythical head of Orpheus is washed up with his lyre on the shores of Lesbos where the poetess Sappho lived 660 before C.E. An “Opératorio” by an American composer recently settled in Montréal in a great chamber music work from Mozart.