The concept of metanoia – that, which goes beyond thought – most commonly describes a change in the way of seeing and thinking about things. With this recording, italo-brazilian conductor Simone Menezes and her chamber orchestra “K”, together with the choir “Sequenza 9.3”, go on a musical journey to find moments of metanoia in the lives and works of composers such as Giacomo Puccini, Arvo Pärt, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alexander Borodin as well as Johann Sebastian Bach.

M E T A N O I A

Simone Menezes, conductor
K
Sequenza 9.3, choir
Manon Galy, violin

Giacomo Puccini
Messa a quattro voci “Messa di Gloria”
Kyrie & Gloria

Johann Sebastian Bach
Sarabande from Violin Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Preludio from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4

Arvo Pärt
In spe (2010)

Alexander Borodin
Polovtsian Dances from “Prince Igor”
(arr. Vincent Paulet)