Kaija Saariaho?s Emilie Suite was a joint commission by Carnegie Hall New York City Cité de la Musique Paris Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.It wasfirst performed on 30 November 2011 at Carnegie Hall by the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu with Elizabeth Futral (soprano).The first performance in Paris took place on 23 April 2013 at Cité de laMusique by the Avanti! Chamber Orchestraconducted by Ernest Martinez Izquierdo with Barbara Hannigan (soprano).

Scène lyrique-Cléop tre - Scène lyriquefor Soprano solo and orchestraThe cantata Cléop tre belongs to a group of six surviving compositions written by Hector Berlioz between 1826 and 1830 for the prestigious Prix de Rome competition. This was administered by the music section of the Académie des Beaux-arts one of the four Académies that constituted the Institut de France during the Bourbon restoration.The text of the cantata Cléop tre written for the competition by Pierre-Ange Vieillard particularly fired Berlioz?s imagination. His manuscript makes it clear that he viewed the work as a continuous monologue rather than as a traditional cantata with discretesections of recitative and air.Urtext of the New Berlioz EditionPerformance material (BA5787-72) available for hire