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Proms 2015 Prom 55: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg

Prom 55
Prom 55: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg
19:30 Wed 26 Aug 2015 Royal Albert Hall
Fran莽ois-Xavier Roth celebrates the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez with the composer鈥檚 '鈥 explosante-fixe 鈥' . The programme continues with Ligeti鈥檚 'Lontano' and concludes with Bart贸k鈥檚 'Concerto for Orchestra'.
Fran莽ois-Xavier Roth celebrates the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez with the composer鈥檚 '鈥 explosante-fixe 鈥' . The programme continues with Ligeti鈥檚 'Lontano' and concludes with Bart贸k鈥檚 'Concerto for Orchestra'.

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Bart贸k wasn鈥檛 the first composer to write a Concerto for Orchestra, but freewheeling virtuosity and rhythmic energy set this one apart. Treating individual instruments as soloists or partners in exhilarating duets-to-the-death, Bart贸k reinvents the orchestra itself. The whole classical canon seems dissolved in Ligeti鈥檚 Lontano, in which familiar harmonies and styles are suspended in space and time, and resolution continually hangs just out of reach. Turning classical rules of development on their head, Boulez鈥檚 鈥樷 explosante-fixe 鈥︹ works backwards, moving from its most complex material to its primary, original source (see also PSM 4, 29 August). It鈥檚 audacious and completely compelling.

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