György Ligeti (1923-2006)
San Francisco Polyphony for Orchestra (1973/74)
Mauro Hertig (*1989)
Losing the Red Queen's Race for Orchestra (2022) | World Premiere,
commissioned by the Basel Sinfonietta
Julian Anderson (*1967)
The Stations of the Sun for Orchestra (1998) | German Premiere
Simon Steen-Andersen (*1976)
Piano Concerto for Piano, Sampler, Orchestra and Video (2014)
NICOLAS HODGES, PIANO
BALDUR BRÖNNIMANN, DIRECTOR
As the prelude to a tour of Belgian music centers, the Basel Sinfonietta presents music in the Burghof Lörrach ranging from the rising of the sun to the shattering sounds of a crashing grand piano.
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.
In his orchestral work "The Stations of the Sun", the British composer Julian Anderson takes the changing position of the sun throughout the day and the seasons as a starting point for music that takes on its own form in the course of its performance and becomes increasingly incomprehensible and ambiguous.
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".
Concert introduction 6:15 pm
With the kind support of the Swiss Interpreters' Foundation, the SUISA Foundation for Art, the Ernst von Siemens Foundation and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Burghof Lörrach (D)
