„Glissade“that could be the title. We enter the concert hall and we’re taken in this huge slide to land in - in a logical machine world?
But the title might as well be „Sandwich” as the bass clarinet stands there, alone and intense in Brett Dean’s Confessio, between two broader program parts…or what about „B.B.” which would stand for „Ballade for a Bulldozer”? Yes, we will be playing that too, not to mention Sofia Gubaidulina’s sonata and Wolfgang Rihm’s In nuce.
No, let’s stick to the original idea: this will be the „Cadavre Exquis” concert. And how does it sound?
Program:
James Tenney: Glissade: I. Shimmer for viola, cello, double bass and tape delay system (1982)
Iris ter Schiphorst: Ergo sum-pf-maschinerie (première Berlin, 1990)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Sonata for double bass and piano (1975)
Brett Dean: Confessio (2017)
Wolfgang Rihm: In nuce (1994)
Iris ter Schiphorst: Ballade für einen Bulldozer (1989) (première Berlin, 1990)
Zafraan Ensemble: Cadavre Exquis (premiere)
Zafraan Ensemble: Miguel Pérez Iñesta (clarinet), Clemens Hund-Göschel (piano), Emmanuelle Bernard (violin/viola), Josa Gerhard (viola/violin), Martin Smith (violoncello), Beltane Ruiz Molina (double bass)
Artistic direction: Emmanuelle Bernard
Production management: Piotr van Gielle Ruppe
Management and public relations: Sofia Surgutschowa