Programme
- Parsifal(13 mins)Prelude to Act I
- ...secreta desolación...(12 mins)UK Premiere
- Libro notturno delle voci for flute and orchestra(23 mins)UK Premiere
- interval
- Delta – Music for Orchestra IV(25 mins)UK Premiere
- Tableau(13 mins)Scottish Premiere
Performers
- Matteo Cesariflute
- Matthias Pintscherconductor
Composers
Concert information
With its suspension of time and space, magical colouring and mysterious silences, Wagner’s Parsifal prelude is a suitable opener to this concert of contemporary music, programmed and conducted by the ˿ SSO’s Artist-in-Association, Matthias Pintscher. Joan Magrané Figuera’s ...secreta desolación… makes melodic and harmonic references to Wagner’s opera while another German musical revolutionary, Helmut Lachenmann, uses silences and large orchestral forces in Tableau, a work recently described as “mesmerising, startling and occasionally forbidding.” Jay Schwartz’s Delta, combines ‘physics with the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of sound’ to create a work of great emotional intensity; and at the centre of this Hear and Now, a flute concerto by Salvatore Sciarrino in which the soloist engages in dialogues with a succession of instruments, creating a fragile soundworld which teeters on the edge of silence.
The concert will be recorded for future broadcast in ˿ Radio 3’s Hear and Now.
Tickets: FREE* (unreserved seating) limited to 2 tickets per application (not recommended for young children)
*£1.00 online and £1.50 telephone venue booking fees apply.