'Beauty will save the world', wrote Dostoyevsky, which is the claim that Camille Thomas makes throughout this record. Not beauty for the sake of hedonism, but a beauty that believes there is a burning line to be drawn between pain and hope. Camille Thomas' new album illustrates this, structured like an archipelago surrounding the 'Cello Concerto' composed by Fazil Say. Camille Thomas gave its premiere in 2018, and her album spanning the work of ten composers, allows us to travel the path from pain to hope. On the threshold, we meet three pieces: the heart-rending melody of the 'Kaddisch' by Ravel, a sublimation of the Jewish prayer for the dead; the lamentation from Purcell's 'Dido', quasi a lullaby from the queen who awaits her death, in a nakedness without pathos; and between those two works, the tender 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits' from Gluck's 'Orfeo', in which we hear the first signals of hope.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Kaddisch

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

2.Dance of the Blessed Spirits

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

3.When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament)

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

4.Never Give Up

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

5.Terror - Elegy

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

6.Song of Hope

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

Disc 2

Track name

Artist

1.Kol Nidrei, Op. 47

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

2.Traume

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

3.Songs My Mother Taught Me

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

4.Theme from Schindler's List

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

5.Pourquoi Me Reveiller

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

6.Una Furtiva Lagrima

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

7.Casta Diva

Camille Thomas/Brussels Philharmonic

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