Silence, Night & Dreams

Silence, Night and Dreams is Zbigniew Preisner's recording project, a large-scale work for orchestra, choir and soloists, based on texts from the Book of Job. The world premiere took place in Athens on 4th September 2007 in the historic amphitheatre of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on the Acropolis. Zbigniew Preisner conducted the Contemporary Music Orchestra of ERT (Greek Radio and Television), the Chorus of Athens University with singers Teresa Salgueiro and Thomas Cully and a group of Polish, Swedish and English instrumental soloists. The second part of the Athens concert was conducted by Andreas Pilarinos and featured a suite of Preisners film scores including the themes from La Double Vie de Veronique and Three Colours Blue. The premier recording, was released in 2007 with the lead singer of Madredeus, Teresa Salgueiro and boy soprano Thomas Cully from Libera.