LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Ensemble
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Pierre Boulez
conductor
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Olivia Stahn
soprano
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
"Symphony for Wind Instruments"
Elliott Carter (*1908)
"What Are Years". Five poems of Marianne Moore
for soprano and chamber orchestra
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
"Le Chant du Rossignol"
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
"Pierrot lunaire", Op. 21
Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, modernism’s two polar opposites, provide the framework for this ensemble program of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY. Stravinsky is represented by two works from the late phase of his Russian period: the ceremonial-sounding Symphonies of Wind Instruments from 1920 and the symphonic poem “The Song of the Nightingale” (1914-17), which was also choreographed by Sergei Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes. A theatrical air likewise informs the cycle “Poems from Albert Giraud’s ‘Pierrot lunaire.’” Composed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1912 for the singing actress Albertine Zehme, this cycle consists of 21 expressionistic songs using the technique of “speech-song” and accompanied by ever-changing groups of instruments. “The sounds here become an animalistic and immediate expression of sensual and psychological movements,” wrote Schoenberg. At the center of the program, meanwhile, is the most recent work by Elliott Carter, which the 101-year-old composer wrote in 2009. The question contained in its title seems more than justified: “What Are Years?”
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