Camille Thomas – Voice Of Hope (Extended Edition) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

“Beauty will save the world,” wrote Dostoyevsky, which is the claim that Camille Thomas makes throughout this record. Not beauty for the sake of hedonism, but a beauty that believes there is a burning line to be drawn between pain and hope. Camille Thomas’ new album illustrates this, structured like an archipelago surrounding the Cello Concerto composed by Fazil Say. Camille Thomas gave its premiere in 2018, and her album spanning the work of ten composers, allows us to travel the path from pain to hope. On the threshold, we meet three pieces: the heart-rending melody of the Kaddisch by Ravel, a sublimation of the Jewish prayer for the dead; the lamentation from Purcell’s Dido, quasi a lullaby from the queen who awaits her death, in a nakedness without pathos; and between those two works, the tender Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Gluck’s Orfeo, in which we hear the first signals of hope. The album is available today for pre-order and is accompanied by the pre-release track of Gluck’s Dance of the Blessed Spirits from his opera Orfeo ed Euridice.

Tracklist:
01. Camille Thomas – Deux mélodies hébraïques, M.A 22: I. Kaddisch (Transcr. for Cello and Orchestra by Richard Tognetti) (04:59)
02. Camille Thomas – Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30, Act II: Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Arr. for Cello and Strings by Mathieu Herzog) (03:07)
03. Camille Thomas – Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: “When I Am Laid in Earth” Dido’s Lamento (Arr. for Cello and Strings by Mathieu Herzog) (03:48)
04. Camille Thomas – Concerto for Cello and Orchestra “Never Give Up”, Op. 73: I. Never Give Up (08:43)
05. Camille Thomas – Concerto for Cello and Orchestra “Never Give Up”, Op. 73: II. Terror – Elegy (06:49)
06. Camille Thomas – Concerto for Cello and Orchestra “Never Give Up”, Op. 73: III. Song Of Hope (06:00)
07. Camille Thomas – Kol Nidrei, Op. 47: I. Adagio ma non troppo (05:26)
08. Camille Thomas – Kol Nidrei, Op. 47: II. Un poco più animato (05:09)
09. Camille Thomas – Wesendonck-Lieder, WWV 91: No. 5, Träume (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra by Mathieu Herzog) (04:52)
10. Camille Thomas – Gypsy Melodies, Op. 55, B. 104: No. 4, Songs My Mother Taught Me (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra) (03:16)
11. Camille Thomas – Theme from “Schindler’s List” (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra) (04:14)
12. Camille Thomas – Werther, Act III: “Pourquoi me réveiller” (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra) (02:58)
13. Camille Thomas – L’elisir d’amore, Act II: “Una furtiva lagrima” (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra) (04:10)
14. Camille Thomas – Norma, Act I: “Casta Diva” (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra by Mathieu Herzog) (05:15)
15. Camille Thomas – Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act I: “Dalla sua pace” (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra) (03:28)
16. Camille Thomas – Nabucco, Act III: “Va, pensiero” (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra by Mathieu Herzog) (03:08)
17. Camille Thomas – Erlkönig, D. 328 (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra) (03:52)
18. Camille Thomas – Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118 (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra) (03:05)
19. Camille Thomas – Vater Unser (Version for Cello and Piano) (02:35)