Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Michael Jarrell (*1958)
“… car le pensé et l'être sont une même chose …”
Heinz Holliger (*1939)
“nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts.” 10 Monodistychs by Angelus Silesius (world premiere)
Salvatore Sciarrino (*1947)
“Tre canti senza pietre”
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
“Menschen, hört” from “Mittwoch aus LICHT” (world permiere)
“What is eternity?” asks the Silesian Baroque poet Angelus Silesius in one of his mysterious epigrams, only to provide a paradoxical answer: “It is not this, not that, / Not now, not aught, not nothing; it is I know not what.” Heinz Holliger has set ten poems from Angelus Silesius’ “The Cherubic Pilgrim” to music, all of which revolve around metaphysical questions of nothingness, space, time, and the nature of God. The same can be said of the other works on this Sunday matinee program of a cappella music. For example, Michael Jarrell grapples with a fragment of the Greek philosopher Parmenides, while in his musical-dramatic cycle LICHT (“Light”), Karlheinz Stockhausen once again undertook a comprehensive worldview at the end of the 20th century. The Neuen Vocalsolisten Stuttgart will present the concluding text from “Wednesday” in the LICHT cycle—a composition Stockhausen incorporated into the design of his own grave.
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