Anish Kapoor, Rossini orch.Sciarrino
Giovanna D'Arco
Anish Kapoor Dismemberment of Jeanne d'Arc, 2009
Rossini orch. Sciarrino Giovanna D'Arco
Chamber Domaine
Conductor Thomas Kemp
Mezzo soprano Anna Grevelius
Rossini meets Anish Kapoor via Salvatore Sciarrino in a cross-cultural homage to that eternal icon of female martyrdom - Joan of Arc.
Thomas Kemp directs Chamber Domaine and rising star mezzo Anna Grevelius in a live performance of Salvatore Sciarrino's 1987 orchestration of Rossini's late cantata Giovanna D'Arco in situ with Anish Kapoor's specially commissioned installation Dismemberment of Jeanne d'Arc.
'With me music inhabits a threshold region. Like dreams, where something both exists and yet doesn't exist,' notes Sciarrino. This simultaneous absence and presence is a concept etched into the Kapoor aesthetic. Much of his work explores these polarities: form and non-form, place and non-place.
Giovanna D'Arco was Rossini's most ambitious work in the cantata form. It retold the dramatic story of the 'Maid of Orleans' - the visions that drove an illiterate peasant girl to deliver her homeland from subjugation. To do justice to its full mythic weight, Rossini pulled out all the vocal stops in a 'virtual catalogue of the bel canto arsenal'.
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