Introduction by Dieter Ammann and Michael Jarrell at the concert.
Ensemble intercontemporain
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Susanna Mälkki
conductor
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Pierre Strauch
violoncello
"pRESTO sOSTINATO" for large ensemble (2005/06)
"Violation" for violoncello and ensemble (1998/99)
Michael Jarrell (*1958)
“Music for a While” for ensemble (1994/95)
"La Chambre aux Échos" for ensemble
Mouvements 1 et 2 – world premiere (2010)
Commissioned by LUCERNE FESTIVAL and Ensemble intercontemporain, kindly supported by Artephila Stiftung
“Association, the mind’s ear, intuition, seemingly spontaneous reactions to what is notated on the page—these ‘subjective’ kinds of creative thinking characterize my music,” according to Dieter Ammann. This matinee by the Ensemble intercontemporain, which will be performed by docents, opens the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY and also serves to introduce this year’s “composer-in-residence.” “Violation” (1998/99) presents a relatively “older” work from this still-youthful composer’s career. “The piece,” says Ammann, “concerns various stages of attraction and repulsion between the individual and the collective, in a direct, almost physical manner.” Meanwhile, “pRESTO sOSTENATO” represents a more recent score, written in 2006 for the centenary of Paul Sacher, and one based on the principle of contrast. “The music can linger in a dozy, noiselike state, thin out into a hollow fifth, and then just as suddenly roll up into energetic pulses.”