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2024-03-08 11:10:00
Pierre Boulez SaalJonathan Harvey: String Quartet no.1 (1977) Cathy Milliken: In Speak for string quartet (2023, world premiere) Toshio Hosokawa: Oreksis for piano quintet (2023, world premiere) Birtwistle: String Quartet: The Tree of Strings (2007)Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan (violins)Ralf Ehlers (viola)Lucas Fels (cello) Tomoki Kitamura (piano) On 7 March 1974, the Arditti Quartet gave its first concert at the Royal Academy of Music, music to honour Krzysztof Penderecki on bestowal of an honorary degree. Fifty years later to the day and several changes of personnel later – Irvine Arditti the one constant – the Quartet celebrated at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal its fiftieth birthday, followed by a reception hosted by the Paul Sacher Stiftung, which also hosts the ensemble’s archive . True to its spirit, here was a mixture of new and newer: two Arditti commissions, Jonathan Harvey’s First String Quartet (the first ever) and Harrison Birtwistle’s The Tree of […]
2023-11-28 17:25:29
Oksana Lyniv conducted the premiere of Vladimir Genin’s works with grim determination at the Pierre Boulez Saal
2023-11-11 14:18:00
West-Eastern Divan Ensemble/Barenboim M. - Hindemith, Carter, Hensel, and Beethoven, 9 November 2023
Pierre Boulez Saal Hindemith: Trauermusik for viola and strings Fanny Hensel: String Quartet in E-flat major Carter: Au Quai for bassoon and viola; Duettone for violin and cello Beethoven: Septet in E-flat major, op.20 Michael Barenboim (violin, viola)Miriam Manaserhov (viola)Assif Binness (cello)David Santos Luque (double bass)Daniel Gurfinkel (clarinet)Mor Biron (bassoon)Ben Goldscheider (horn)Images: Peter Adamik 9 November is a date full, too full, of resonance for German history. From the proclamation of the Republic in 1918 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it takes in also the Munich putsch of 1923 and the November pogroms of 1938. At the best of times, whenever they might be, it is impossible not to feel conflicted and at times close to overwhelmed by the imperatives of remembrance; and these, I hardly need add, are anything but the best of times. On the 85th anniversary of what English-speaking countries still refer to […]
2023-10-30 17:47:00
Neuburger/Boulez Ensemble/Roth - Debussy and Manoury, 29 October 2023
Pierre Boulez Saal Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola, and harp Manoury: Passacaille pour Tokyo Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano Manoury: Grammaires du sonore Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano)Boulez EnsembleFrançois-Xavier Roth (conductor)Images: Jakob TillmannIntelligent and revealing programming is always a joy. François-Xavier Roth ranks highly among those conductors regularly offering it. When married to equally intelligent and revealing performances it becomes all the more a joy, such as in this concert from the Boulez Ensemble, founded by Daniel Barenboim to include members of the Staatskapelle Berlin and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Two ensemble pieces by Philippe Manoury were prefaced by two late Debussy sonatas, the formal implications of which were highly suggestive and felt to be such for the Manoury works. First, we heard Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola, and harp, an extraordinary work I do not think I have ever heard live before. The combination may be unusual, but surely is […]
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