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01. EMIKA - Grief (Prelude)
02. EMIKA - The Miracle (Movement 1)
03. EMIKA - Letting Go (Movement 2)
04. EMIKA - Love (Movement 3)
05. EMIKA - Destiny (Movement 4)
06. EMIKA - Finally Free (Coda)
ARTIST
TITLE
Melanfonie
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
EMK 003CD EMK 003CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/10/2017

The crossover between electronic music and classical composition has never been in more vibrant and dynamic health. Multifarious musician Emika explores this fertile ground on her ambitious new opus Melanfonie: her first orchestral composition, some four years in the making. While many rebel from their classical training never to return to it explicitly, Emika has always been attracted to the potential and freedoms offered by the symphony form. As well as taking inspiration from her electronic music background in composing the music itself, Emika also applied some of production and playback principles from that realm to create a piece whose every element has been carefully considered. Melanfonie is a romantic and lyrical piece, with universal themes of love and sadness, and huge beautiful melodies. It was performed by a 50 piece symphony orchestra and Emika employed a seating plan for the orchestra to make the recording sound more like a wide stereo pop album. Emika is on a quest to try and change what we mean when we talk about "classical music". For her, the magic of the "genre" is about the instruments themselves and more importantly the people who play them; not the restricting traditions and conventions of the classical world itself. Emika of Melanfonie: "I want to change the face of classical music and give it a more honest and real image. It is time we had something other than pomp and circumstance and avant-garde squeaks and pops." Personnel: Michaela Šrůmová - soprano; Prague Metropolitan Orchestra; Paul Batson - conductor.