Exiles

Remembrances for voices and orchestra

solo soprano, SATB chorus and orchestra

Edition: Performance material

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Exiles is a meditation on leaving home and of longing for one’s homeland, using texts from different traditions and languages. The theme of exile is a deep source of inspiration for Anderson, whose Jewish extended family were killed during the Holocaust. ‘The only family to survive were those who managed to leave much earlier, like my grandparents’, Anderson writes. The work is nevertheless a celebration of ‘the vibrancy that humans gain from sharing our creativity, and the richness that arises when people move to different countries’.

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Title:

Exiles

Remembrances for voices and orchestra

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Publishing year:

2021

Year of composition:

2021

Duration:

38 ′

World Premiere:

September 12, 2021 · London (UK)
Barbican Hall
Lucy Crowe, soprano · Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle · London Symphony Orchestra · London Symphony Chorus
(Two Movements from "Exiles" (I le 3 mai - II Tsiyon))

January 9, 2022 · London (UK)
Barbican Hall
Siobhan Stagg, soprano · Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle · London Symphony Orchestra · London Symphony Chorus

World Premiere (Revision) (First performance of "La République des Lettres")

April 22, 2022 · Berlin (D)
Philharmonie
Siobhan Stagg, Sopran · Conductor: Andris Poga · Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin · Rundfunkchor Berlin · Choir director: Philipp Ahmann

World Premiere (Revision) (Premiere of the complete work)

Commissioned work :

Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks