Polyptyque for violin and two string orchestras

‘Time and Eternity’

John Zorn Kol Nidre
Karl Amadeus Hartmann Concerto funebre for violin and string orchestra
traditional Immortal Victims, “Вы жертвою пали”, funeral march
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Guillaume de Machaut Kyrie from the Messe de Notre-Dame
Frank Martin Polyptyque for violin and two string orchestras
Johann Sebastian Bach Chorals
Luboš Fišer Crux for violin, timpani and bells

‘Time and Eternity’ is an uncompromising meditation on the human condition and includes music from a time span of over 600 years. Patricia Kopatchinakaja and CAMERATA BERN premiered this program in September 2018 in the candlelit French Church in Bern, then performed it in Bonn and Ghent and recorded it as a joint debut CD on the Alpha Classics label.
‘This music is made out of the blood and tears of tortured souls: a strangled scream, voices muttering amid a terrified silence, the sounds of war in an improvised cadenza. It is about us, our past and our future.
At the centre is Hartmann’s Concerto funebre. Juxtaposed is Frank Martin’s Polyptyque, a piece about God’s Passion and the misery endured to attain eternal salvation for humankind. The Concerto funebre, which can also be seen as a Passion, is a testimony to the wrongs that have been done – and are still being done – to human beings, to creation, and to the Creator.’
Patricia Kopatchinskaja

photo: Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marco Borggreve