Concert order - pieces by Silvio Palmieri:
Vers ce silence, for chamber orchestra (1995)
Prélude IV (L'ultimo agone) for solo piano (world premiere)
Poesiole Notturne, for soprano and chamber orchestra (1996)
Prélude XI : Elevazione (Disperate vibrazioni raschiano il silenzio), for solo piano (2010)
Opéra Elia, for soprano, mezzo, baritone and chamber orchestra (2003-04, excerpt)
>> (For a contextual setting of the excerpt of Opera Elia, we recommend that you consult page 23 of the program at the bottom of this webpage.)

Soloists:
Sarah Albu, soprano
Florence Bourget, mezzo
Dion Mazerolle, baritone
Louise Bessette, piano

Véronique Lacroix, conductor and Artistic Direction
ECM+ and Ensemble Paramirabo, 18 musicians
Georges Nicholson, host

A co-production with the Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques Festival and the Ensemble Paramirabo.

Silvio Palmieri died before his time in 2018. He had for 25 years enjoyed a special relationship with the ECM+, which premiered a number of his works, including his sole opera, Elia, in 2004. His legacy includes an extensive body of brilliant works that were imbued with his profound love for the piano and the voice together with an innate sense of instrumental colour, the more powerful, the better! 

On the program, two piano Preludes– including a world premiere– but also Elia (excerpt, 2004), Poesiole Notturne (1996) and Vers ce silence (1995) performed by the ECM+, the Ensemble Paramirabo and pianist Louise Bessette, will reveal some of this composer’s mastery, from different angles and periods of his life.