- Artist:
- Long Yu & Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - Aaron Zigman
Émigré: 2CD
Release date: 21 June, 2024
Émigré is a collaboration between the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, Long Yu and Deutsche Grammophon. The oratorio was carefully crafted over five years and has a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Campbell, with additional lyrics by Brock Walsh.
Inspired by true events, Émigré deals with a little-known chapter of the Second World War: the welcome given by the people of Shanghai to Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the 1930s. At its core, Émigré is a love story that is a parable for the world. The turmoil that tears the couples apart in the story is a reflection of how the world often tears itself apart.
Tracklist:
1. Prologue
2. Shanghai
3. Look Ahead
4. Dreaming Must Wait
5. This House We Share
6. My City
7. Recitative
8. No Word From Home
9. In A Woman’s Hands
10. Yu Garden
11. In a Perfect World
12. One Magical Night
13. Our People
14. Ent’acte
15. Light a Flame
16. The Song Home
17. You Cannot Deny My Love
18. And Another Day
19. Forever
20. Once Upon a Night
21. Where Is My Father?
22. The Yeshiva in the Ghetto
23. Nowhere to Go
24. Through a Window
- Formats:
- CD Album
- Cat#:
- 4865590