New Worlds Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra & Alexander Shelley

• Ana Sokolović (b. 1968): Golden slumbers kiss your eyes...:
• 1 Golden slumbers kiss your eyes...: I. À la claire fontaine 04:09
• 2 Golden slumbers kiss your eyes...: II. Golden slumbers kiss your eyes... 03:51
• 3 Golden slumbers kiss your eyes...: III. Mie mama mata mata, Lazarice 03:08
• 4 Golden slumbers kiss your eyes...: IV. Tarantella del Gargano 02:50
• 5 Golden slumbers kiss your eyes...: V. Guter Mond 06:12
• 6 Golden slumbers kiss your eyes...: VI. Durme, durme 03:08
• 7 Golden slumbers kiss your eyes...: VII. Dodole, À la claire fontaine 04:14
• Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904): Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”:
• 8 Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”: I. Adagio – Allegro molto 11:46
• 9 Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”: II. Largo 12:24
• 10 Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”: III. Molto vivace 07:58
• 11 Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”: IV. Allegro con fuoco 11:21
• Total Runtime 01:11:01

Info for New Worlds

Themes of migration and crossing borders are as hot topics today as they ever were. This recording explores two works written in the so-called “New World” by composers from the “Old World”.

Ana Sokolović left war-torn Yugoslavia for a new home in Montréal, and her piece Golden slumbers kiss your eyes… looks back to European lullabies. It features Canadian-Korean counter-tenor David DQ Lee and several Ottawa choirs, and was commissioned by the NAC Orchestra in honour of its founding conductor, Mario Bernardi.

Antonín Dvořák wrote his famous symphony when he lived in North America, and there is still discussion about how much of the “New” and “Old” Worlds are to be found in it. It was taken to the moon, presumably because it contains some of the most recognizable and moving music ever written, and Neil Armstrong considered that the next “New World.”

Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra
Capital Chamber Choir
Ewashko Singers
Cantata Singers of Ottawa
David DQ Lee
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra
Alexander Shelley, conductor

Alexander Shelley
is Music Director of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and Principal Associate Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen’s ECHO and Deutsche Gründerpreis winning “Zukunftslabor”. In August 2017 Alexander concluded his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Nürnberger Symphoniker, a position he held since September 2009. The partnership was hailed by press and audience alike as a golden era for the orchestra, where he transformed the ensemble’s playing, education work and international touring activities.

Unanimous winner of the 2005 Leeds Conductor’s Competition, he has since worked regularly with the leading orchestras of Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, NDR Orchester Hannover, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Gothenburg Symphony, Stockholm Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic and Milwaukee, Melbourne and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras.

Alexander’s operatic engagements have included The Merry Widow and Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet (Den Kongelige Opera); La Bohème (Opera Lyra/National Arts Centre), Iolanta (Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen), Così fan Tutte (Opéra national de Montpellier) and The Marriage of Figaro (Opera North) in 2015. In 2017 he led a co-production of Harry Somers’ Louis Riel with the NACO and Canadian Opera Company.

Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra
is a world class ensemble of musicians from across Canada and the world, under the inspiring leadership of Music Director Alexander Shelley.

Formed in 1969, the orchestra gives about 100 performances a year in Ottawa, across Canada and around the globe, working with diverse artists of international renown. It breaks boundaries with its regular commissions of new creations including the critically-acclaimed, immersive Life Reflected.

Askonas Holt collaborated with the NAC for the first time in 2019, on a nine-date European tour celebrating the orchestra’s 50th anniversary. In addition to symphonic concerts in Saffron Walden, London, Utrecht, Copenhagen and Stockholm, the orchestra presented the extraordinary Life Reflected to audiences in Paris and Gothenburg.

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