Breathe

Featuring

Hera Hyesang Park
Giovanni Battista Fabris
Jochen Rieder
Emily D'Angelo
Seulji Kim
Federico Romano

Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice Genova
Coro della Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice
Luke Howard
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Carl Orff
Engelbert Humperdinck
Cecilia Livingston
Gioachino Rossini
Bernat Vivancos
Giuseppe Verdi
Hyo-Won Woo
Jules Massenet
Licinio Refice
Léo Delibes

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Compositional Technique

Hyowon Woo's 'Requiem aeternam (Eoi Gari)' combines human voices with the sound of the ajaeng, a traditional Korean string instrument, and blends ceremonial Korean music with the requiem form.

Album & Artwork

The album's inspiration came from the profound fear experienced by Hera Hyesang Park, the soprano on this album, during the pandemic and the sudden loss of loved ones.

Composition History

The central movement of Górecki's Symphony No. 3 sets a prayer written by an 18-year-old Polish girl on a Gestapo prison wall in 1944.

Album & Artwork

The album title, 'Breathe,' was inspired by a vivid dream and a subsequent experience with freediving, where the soprano felt a profound sense of peace and authenticity underwater.

Historical Context

The album features a piece inspired by the Seikilos epitaph, the oldest surviving musical score from the first or second century CE, which offers a message about living life fully.

Composition History

Luke Howard's 'While You Live' incorporates text from the ancient Seikilos epitaph, a request made by the album's soprano, Hera Hyesang Park.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The album explores the idea that life is not complete without death, viewing death as an extension of life and finding gratitude in the magnificence of life.