Clara Iannotta Mark Andre György Ligeti Wolfgang Rihm
© Clara Iannotta © Luc Hossepied ©
Wolfgang Rihm
Quartet No. 13
Mark Andre
Miniaturen für Streichquartett (iv 13) (French première – commissioned by the Arditti Quartet and Musica Viva Munich, with support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, and the Festival d’Automne à Paris with ProQuartet-CEMC)
Clara Iannotta
dead wasps in the jam jar (iii) (world premiere – commissioned by the Festival d’Automne à Paris and ProQuartet-CEMC, with support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation)
György Ligeti
Quartet No. 2
Arditti Quartet
In association with C.I.C.T. Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (Paris); Festival d’Automne à Paris // With support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation // With support from SACEM // With support from ADAMI.
The program for the Arditti Quartet features new works by Clara Iannotta and Mark Andre, plus already acclaimed works by Wolfgang Rihm and György Ligeti, offering the musicians varied scope for the range of expressive palettes in contemporary string quartet compositions.
Clara Iannotta based her work on a line of verse by Dorothy Molloy: “dead wasps in the jam jar,” taking the strikingly visual image onto a different plane to produce sound. A surface, for this composer, is little more than reflection and refraction, and an enticing prospect.Compositions for string quartet produce constant dialogue between the different elements and expressive potential of the four musicians and their four instruments, and methodically change the variables. In 2011, Wolfgang Rihm composed a quartet (his thirteenth) extending the individual dimension of the four components through a panoramic approach (possibly a serial approach) to different ways of playing and different accent patterns. The result is an atmosphere of combat, a sense of urgent need conveyed through the tension created, reaching the point where the temptation to exhaust all potential sources may develop a certain spiritual force. When Mark Andre added Miniaturen für Streichquartett (iv 13) to “iv”, his soloist and chamber music cycle, he chose the letters in the words introversion and intravenous, and found a classification of different ways of having sound disappear. The works in iv 13 have references to Jesus disappearing: after he appeared to Mary Magdalene (“Do not hold on to me,” John 20, 11-18), and on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24, 13-35). The program ends with György Ligeti’s Quartet No. 2 (1968), featuring a pointillist section, followed by forceful bowing, and an entire pizzicato movement.
See also
Clara Iannotta, Chris Swithinbank I listen to the inward through my bones
Clara Iannotta's project is to listen to the city and its various life-forms, in a space, that of a church, which a priori preserves those inside from the noises outside. She does so by means of an electronic installation designed for the acoustics of the Church of Saint-Eustache, a building with a rich musical tradition, ranging from from Rameau to Berlioz.
Clara Iannotta echo from afar (II) ; They left us grief-trees wailing at the wall ; glass and stone ; a stir among the stars, a making way
What are the relationships between a spider's growth, the sound experience of radiotherapy and the lights and clicking sounds of old-fashioned slide viewers? The work of Clara Iannotta, of which this concert offers a journey through its recent years, is a mode of self-knowledge, or an autobiography in which sound and body are intimately linked.
Clara Iannotta, Dmitri Chostakovich, Franz Schubert
Spanning three centuries, these three works speak of self-care, the incessant quest for new languages, crisis and renewal, and the inherent element of wandering in our lives. And of the landscape in which each point, equidistant from the centre, reveals itself to a traveller who moves around there without moving forward.
In the same place
Joséphine Markovits, l’art d’écouter
On 11 November at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the Festival d'Automne is dedicating a concert to Joséphine Markovits. In her memory, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Ensemble L'Instant Donné will perform works by Claude Vivier, Olga Neuwirth, Gérard Pesson, Pierre-Yves Macé and Arnold Schoenberg. All proceeds from the ticket sales are donated to the Association for ALS Research.
Dorothée Munyaneza, Kae Tempest Inconditionnelles
For this new performance, titled Inconditionnelles singer, author, and choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza stages her French translation of Kae Tempest’s fervent play, Hopelessly Devoted (2015). Inconditionnelles explores the interstices where love and connection abound.
Pascal Rambert Je te réponds
Six voices ring out, bringing with them the captivating stories of six men and women, aged between 30 and 60 years old, and who are currently serving prison sentences. Usually confined to within prison walls, their words find a stage on which to be heard at the Bouffes du Nord theatre.
Dorcy Rugamba Hewa Rwanda – Lettre aux absents
Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, Dorcy Rugamba, actor, author and director, brings to life an extract from this work Hewa Rwanda – Lettre aux absents, published by JC Lattès.