György Kurtág / Heinz Holliger
György Kurtág / Heinz Holliger
Archive 2006
Music
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György Kurtág
Hipartita for solo violin (2000-2004)
French premiere
Heinz Holliger
Shir shavur for chorus a cappella, set on poems by David Rokeah (2004-2006)
French premiere
György Kurtág
Songs of Despair and Sorrow, opus 18 (1980-1994/2006) for mixed chorus and instruments, set on poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Alexandre Blok, Serge Essenine, Ossip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova et Marina Tsvetaïeva
Hiromi Kikuchi, violin
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Ensemble Modern
Conductor: Marcus Creed
In collaboration with Südwestrundfunk and Konzerthaus Berlin
Co-presented by Théâtre du Châtelet and
Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Pro Helvetia and SACEM
Hipartita for solo violin (2000-2004)
French premiere
Heinz Holliger
Shir shavur for chorus a cappella, set on poems by David Rokeah (2004-2006)
French premiere
György Kurtág
Songs of Despair and Sorrow, opus 18 (1980-1994/2006) for mixed chorus and instruments, set on poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Alexandre Blok, Serge Essenine, Ossip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova et Marina Tsvetaïeva
Hiromi Kikuchi, violin
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Ensemble Modern
Conductor: Marcus Creed
In collaboration with Südwestrundfunk and Konzerthaus Berlin
Co-presented by Théâtre du Châtelet and
Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Pro Helvetia and SACEM
Poetry in the shadow of sorrow and despair pervades the works confronted in this concert. Whether a cappella – a chorus and solo voices in an “anthology of meditation” – or inspired by popular and medieval tonalities, they shape the miraculous concordance of music and poetry, to a t. The words of John Keats come to mind: “Melancholy dwells with beauty – a beauty that must die.”