GYÖRGY LIGETI (1923-2006)
San Francisco Polyphony for Orchestra (1973/74)
MAURO HERTIG (*1989)
Losing the Red Queen's Race for Orchestra (2022) B
Commissioned by the Basel Sinfonietta
SIMON STEEN-ANDERSEN (*1976)
Piano Concerto for Piano, Sampler, Orchestra and Video (2014) B
NICOLAS HODGES, PIANO
BALDUR BRÖNNIMANN, DIRECTOR
As part of a guest performance tour through Belgian music centers, the Basel Sinfonietta presents music ranging from polyphonic parody to the bursting sounds of a crashing concert grand piano at the DeSingel International Arts Centre in Antwerp.
With «San Francisco Polyphony», the Austro-Hungarian composer György Ligeti allows individual voices to be heard in his characteristic micropolyphony.
Swiss composer Mauro Hertig's "Losing the Red Queen's Race" presents the orchestra with a game that cannot be won. It's a musical parody of the Red Queen hypothesis, which posits that all organisms are subject to evolutionary pressure.
And then a grand piano falls from the sky! The impact causes the instrument to shatter and break, captured in image and sound. This is all part of the concept of Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen and his "Piano Concerto".
With the kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
B Belgian premiere.
Program subject to change.
